Overview

• O’Brien, 24, was convicted on July 25 and fined about £100,000 after a single-day hearing conducted in Arabic.
• She was arrested in October with a British friend and the friend’s boyfriend after police found 50g of cocaine in a flat.
• The friend tested negative and was released, while the boyfriend received the same 25-year term, according to reports.
• A former cellmate says O’Brien told her she took one line at a party and insisted she was not a dealer.
• She spent months in Al Barsha detention, where conditions were described as dark with filthy toilets, before transfer to Al Awir prison.