{"id":73040,"date":"2025-07-24T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/bella-culley-georgia-tbilisi-september-trial"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:55:20","slug":"british-teenager-bella-culley-to-be-held-in-georgia-until-september-drugs-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73040","title":{"rendered":"British teenager Bella Culley to be held in Georgia until September drugs trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tbilisi judge rejects lawyer\u2019s offer of plea agreement for release of pregnant Teesside teenager, now 19, at hearing<\/p>\n<p>The British teenager Bella Culley is to be held in a Georgian prison for at least five more weeks as she awaits trial on drug-smuggling charges, a court in Tbilisi has ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Culley, the great-granddaughter of a former Labour MP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/may\/15\/british-teenager-being-held-in-georgia-on-drug-charges-bella-culley\">was arrested on arrival<\/a> at the city\u2019s airport in May. Georgian prosecutors said she was carrying a large amount of illegal drugs in luggage she brought with her from Thailand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/bella-culley-georgia-tbilisi-september-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tbilisi judge rejects lawyer\u2019s offer of plea agreement for release of pregnant Teesside teenager, now 19, at hearingThe British teenager Bella Culley is to be held in a Georgian prison for at least five more weeks as she awaits trial on drug-smuggling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474,"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":[886,3371,372,221,1166,3238,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis","category-county-durham","category-drugs","category-europe","category-georgia","category-north-of-england","category-thailand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040","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\/2474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040\/revisions\/73041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}