Overview
- Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Indonesian senior minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra signed an agreement to repatriate Lindsay Sandiford and Shahab Shahabadi to the UK.
- Sandiford was sentenced to death in Bali in 2013 after cocaine was found in her suitcase in 2012; she has said she was coerced and will complete her sentence in Britain.
- Indonesian officials said Sandiford is seriously ill and had good behaviour in prison, and that both prisoners have significant health problems.
- The handover will occur once administrative and technical arrangements are finalized, a process officials estimate could take about two weeks.
- The decision follows recent Indonesian transfers of high-profile foreign drug convicts under President Prabowo Subianto’s administration; the country’s last executions were in 2016.