News Source: ITN
| 6 months ago
The Lao government has denied that a Briton facing a possible death sentence was raped in prison and became pregnant. Samantha Orobator, from south London, is five months pregnant and has been held at the notorious Phonthong jail in Laos since last...
News Source: CNN
| 6 months ago
A British diplomat and a doctor have been able to visit a pregnant British woman being held in a Laos jail, a spokesman for the British Embassy in Bangkok said Wednesday. A British vice-consul was allowed to see Samantha Orobator in jail on Tuesday,...
News Source: The independent
| 6 months ago
Jane Orobator, mother of Samantha Orobator at her home in Castleknock, Dublin. Yesterday she pleaded for 'mercy' for her daughter A pregnant British woman who was accused of drug trafficking and is being held in a jail in Laos will not face the...
News Source: Times Online
| 6 months ago
A pregnant Briton held on drugs charges in one of Asia’s most dreaded prisons has been denied all contact with lawyers. Campaigners said that Samantha Orobator, 20, faces the terrifying ordeal of a show trial under “hastily convened and highly...