Times Online: Pregnant Briton Samantha Orobator faces death penalty in Laos:
A pregnant Briton who could face a firing squad for allegedly trying tosmuggle heroin out of Laos will receive a fair trial, the country'sGovernment said — even though she has yet to be assigned a lawyer.
Human rights groups fear that Samantha Orobator, 20, from South London, willnot be able to defend herself properly when her trial — which was due tostart today, but has been delayed — begins….
Anna Morris, a lawyer with the British-based human rights group Reprieve, saidshe was concerned that trial would not meet the judicial standards of mostcountries….
Reprieve says that she is five months pregnant, having been in custody formore than eight months. It could not confirm whether she was raped inprison, and the circumstances of her pregnancy remain unclear.