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MrSelfDestruct
I agree that it is our duty to stop particularly unjust governments from torturing their populations, but in this instance they have a pretty good position.
First of all she was not arrested for an arbitrary offense like failing to bow as royalty passes, or for being a woman with her head uncovered, or other nonsense. She was arrested and charged with being a drug smuggler, and with very convincing evidence; while there is always the chance she is not guilty it is safe to say that charging her made sense.
As for the penalty perhaps being too harsh, we in the West have a different view of the issue. Personally I think that most illegal drugs should not be outlawed as the behavior they are supposed to encourage is already illegal, and currently the ban is more damaging in that they provide funds to criminal elements. You have to understand that in that area of the world there are large, organized drug operations which frequently clash with governmental armies in fairly large military actions. The "War on Drugs" in this case is quite an appropriate name, and in some cases the criminal syndicates are better funded than the government. Serious penalties for drug smuggling make sense in this context.
I don't see the problem here; she was arrested with good reason, had a trial, and as it turns out did not receive the death penalty. Everyone who was not there and has no real information about the particulars of the trial can still crow about kangaroo courts mainly because there is no way to stop such idiocy, but I think they were justified.
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