Overview
- An Indonesian government source said an agreement will be signed today to transfer Lindsay Sandiford and 35-year-old Shahab Shahabadi to the UK, with the handover to proceed after technical steps are set.
- Indonesia’s coordinating ministry scheduled a press conference later Tuesday on the release of two British nationals alongside the UK ambassador.
- Sandiford was sentenced to death in Bali in 2013 after customs found cocaine worth about $2.14 million hidden in a false-bottom suitcase on her 2012 arrival from Thailand.
- She acknowledged carrying the drugs but has said she acted under threats to her son, and she spent roughly 12 years on death row.
- Shahabadi was arrested in 2014 on drug charges and is reported to be serving a life sentence, as Indonesia maintains strict anti-drug laws and has favored repatriations in recent months after last conducting executions in 2016.