"A British grandmother facing the death penalty in Bali for smuggling a large haul of cocaine was repatriated to the UK from Indonesia on Friday, officials said. Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was sent back along with fellow British national Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences. The plane taking them from Bali to London left at around 12.30am on Friday, I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram, Indonesia's acting deputy for immigration and corrections coordination, said."
"Indonesia has some of the world's strictest drug laws, with severe penalties, including the death sentence, for serious drug offences like trafficking. But it has released several high-profile convicts since last year. Sandiford wassentenced to death in 2013 and was held in the notorious Kerobokan prison for more than a decade. The Briton was arrested at Bali's Denpasar airport in 2012 after customs officials found 4.8kg of cocaine, worth an estimated 1.6m, in the lining of her suitcase when she arrived from Bangkok, Thailand. She claimed that a British gang had forced her to smuggle the drugs, threatening to kill"
The Independent requests donations to fund on-the-ground reporting across issues such as reproductive rights, climate change and Big Tech while avoiding paywalls by relying on supporters. The outlet cites investigative work including probing Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC and producing a documentary about American women fighting for reproductive rights. Indonesia repatriated 69-year-old Lindsay Sandiford and fellow British national Shahab Shahabadi to the UK after convictions there. Sandiford received a death sentence in 2013 after being arrested at Bali's Denpasar airport in 2012 with 4.8kg of cocaine concealed in her suitcase lining, allegedly under coercion.
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