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Locked up in Hong Kong: Peruvian woman jailed for 8 years says she was tricked into smuggling drugs | South China Morning Post

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Peruvian Zoila Lecarnaque Saavedra served eight years in a Hong Kong prison after she was found guilty of smuggling drugs into Hong Kong from Peru in 2013. Saavedra claims she was hired by a woman who offered her US$2,000 to travel to the city to pick up a shipment of tax-free electronics that would be sold for prof…

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