"Two British drug convicts including death row prisoner Lindsay Sandiford were repatriated from Indonesia on Friday, as part of a deal to return them on humanitarian grounds. Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last year. Sandiford, 69, was sentenced to death on the island of Bali in 2013 after she was convicted of trafficking drugs."
"Sandiford wound up behind bars after Indonesian customs officers found cocaine worth an estimated $2.14m hidden in a false bottom of her suitcase when she landed in Bali in 2012. Sandiford admitted to the offences but said she had agreed to carry the narcotics after a drug syndicate threatened to kill her son. The repatriation comes after Indonesia's senior law and human rights minister, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, signed a deal with British foreign minister Yvette Cooper last month for the transfer of Sandiford and Shahabadi."
Two British drug convicts, including Lindsay Sandiford, were repatriated from Indonesia to the United Kingdom under a humanitarian transfer agreement. Sandiford was sentenced to death in Bali in 2013 after being convicted of trafficking cocaine concealed in a false bottom of her suitcase; she said she carried the drugs after a syndicate threatened her son. Shahab Shahabadi was serving a life sentence for drug offences after his 2014 arrest. Both left Bali on a Qatar Airways flight via Doha and will transfer detention to UK authorities. Indonesian and British ministers signed the bilateral transfer deal amid cited serious health and mental health concerns for both prisoners.
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