I have no idea why this case had been given so much sympathetic coverage.
Lets forget Egypt and their legal system for a minute. Tramadol is an opiate and is illegal to possess in the UK without the relevant prescription. Distribute this to your friends even for no profit/cost in the UK could get yourself up to 14 years behind.
From what I gather the pills weren't even prescribed to her but were prescribed to a friend of hers. Surely the fact she couldn't buy them over the counter should have been enough for her to figure it out. Then when unable to get over the counter, the next logical step would have been to go to doctor who would have explained they could not prescribe pills for someone abroad without a consultation, and I'm guessing doctor would have mentioned trying to do this would be illegal.
Now everyone knows smuggling illegal drugs carries typically heavy penalties as a deterrent (ranging up to death), and some countries have more "developed" legal systems than others.
Surely the news articles should all be banging on about how lucky she was that the Egyptian legal system gave her a very lenient sentence?
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