The Indonesian women were arrested for drug trafficking after the officers found 5kg of crystal meth hidden in the bags.
Kartini said she had befriended a young Nepalese man who was starting a business and needed to bring in materials from Indonesia.
The two women spent three years in prison awaiting trial, before being acquitted last year because there was enough evidence to convince the judge they had been tricked.The women are among a minority of those arrested for drug trafficking or smuggling who succeed in persuading the courts that they were tricked, avoiding Hong Kong’s stiff penalties of up to a life sentence and a fine of HK$5 million ., more drugs are being smuggled into the city via the airport.
Aged between 14 and 72, they came from Brazil, Estonia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Uganda, Mongolia, Denmark and the United States.Father John Wotherspoon, a prison chaplain and chief executive officer of Voice for Prisoners, an NGO that helps people arrested after being duped into trafficking, said he had seen a wide range of tactics used to trick people into carrying drugs.
Over the past eight years, Voice for Prisoners helped 16 people accused of smuggling drugs get acquitted. It is now helping four others whose cases are pending. “I stayed in Brazil for three days and was on my way to the airport to go to Hong Kong, when he called from Kuala Lumpur and asked me to help him bring a suitcase of clothes back.”By working with her family in Kuala Lumpur, Voice for Prisoners helped collect enough evidence to prove she had been tricked and the jurors at her trial decided unanimously that she was innocent.Now back in Kuala Lumpur, Siti said she was unable to work because she had to care for her sick mother.
She was in Phnom Penh for three days with the tour guide. Before leaving for their flight to Hong Kong, he asked if she could help take a bag back for him.She said she asked customs officers in Phnom Penh International Airport to scan the bag twice because she was worried she was being set up, but they found nothing.
He has travelled to Africa, South America, Malaysia and Thailand to urge syndicate members to stop tricking innocent people into moving drugs. The woman from Guangzhou was arrested at Hong Kong airport with the drugs in her backpack in 2015. She was acquitted in 2018.To do this, his NGO asks prisoners arrested for smuggling drugs to write letters warning others not to do what they did.
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