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I think the problems isn't so much that a different country is imposing a different penalty for a crime; it's that it's doing so without anything resembling due process. I mean, how would you like it if you were visiting Laos, and then were all of a sudden thrown into jail, and a few months later were told a court had found you guilty? Even minus the rape and abuse, it sucks. If there was something resembling due process, I wouldn't complain, but since it doesn't look like she got anything resembling a fair trial, I agree that Britain ought to apply the diplomatic thumbscrews.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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