U.S. WOMAN IN BANGLADESH PRISON PARDONED AFTER 3 YEARS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Bangladesh's president has pardoned an American woman three years into her life prison sentence for smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain 7 pounds of heroin, a prison official said Monday. Eliadah McCord of Houston will be released from a Dhaka prison by Tuesday, said Aminur Rahman, deputy inspector general of prisons. She is expected to be escorted back to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. by Rep. Bill Richardson  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. , D-N.M., who visited Bangladesh in February to intercede on her behalf. McCord, 23, was arrested at the Dhaka airport in 1992 and was convicted a year later. She has said she did not know that four packages given her by Nigerian Robert Blankson contained heroin. Blankson also was sentenced to life imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. . Rahman said he received an order from the Home Ministry on Sunday saying McCord had been pardoned by President Abdur Rahman Biswas, two months before Biswas is to leave office. The pardon came three weeks after the Supreme Court turned down an appeal by McCord. Bangladeshi law calls for a minimum of two years in prison for possessing heroin. Those found smuggling more than 25 grams, or 0.9 ounces, are given either life terms or the death sentence. Richardson has helped win freedom for other prisoners. |
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