{"id":68147,"date":"2024-12-04T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/dec\/04\/donna-nelson-australian-woman-drug-smuggling-japan-sentence-love-scam-claims-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:28:10","slug":"donna-nelson-who-claims-she-was-love-scam-victim-jailed-for-smuggling-drugs-into-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68147","title":{"rendered":"Donna Nelson, who claims she was love scam victim, jailed for smuggling drugs into Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is \u201creally distressing\u201d for her family, the federal government has acknowledged as it committed to doing all it could to help her.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian federal health minister, Mark Butler, made the promise a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/nov\/18\/australian-accused-of-smuggling-drugs-in-suitcase-to-tokyo-says-she-is-victim-of-romance-scam\">Donna Nelson<\/a> was sentenced to six years for smuggling methamphetamine into Tokyo in January 2023, despite her claims she had been the victim of an online romance scam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/dec\/04\/donna-nelson-australian-woman-drug-smuggling-japan-sentence-love-scam-claims-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into countryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is \u201creally distressing\u201d for her fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4509,"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":[41,43,372,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-drugs","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147","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\/4509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68174,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68147\/revisions\/68174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}