{"id":11544,"date":"2019-11-26T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T04:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/26\/sydney-woman-maria-exposto-has-drug-conviction-and-death-sentence-overturned-in-malaysia"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T04:46:13","slug":"sydney-woman-maria-exposto-has-drug-conviction-and-death-sentence-overturned-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11544","title":{"rendered":"Sydney woman Maria Exposto has drug conviction and death sentence overturned in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exposto was initially found to be an unwitting drug mule, but prosecutors appealed and she was sentenced to death last year<\/p>\n<p>Sydney grandmother Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto has won her appeal against a death sentence for drug trafficking in Malaysia and will be freed after nearly five years in jail and 18 months on death row.<\/p>\n<p>Her appeal for trafficking more than 1kg of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, through Kuala Lumpur airport in December 2014, was heard in Malaysia\u2019s court of final appeal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/26\/sydney-woman-maria-exposto-has-drug-conviction-and-death-sentence-overturned-in-malaysia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposto was initially found to be an unwitting drug mule, but prosecutors appealed and she was sentenced to death last yearSydney grandmother Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto has won her appeal against a death sentence for drug trafficking in Malaysia and wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,372,70,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-drugs","category-malaysia","category-sydney"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}