the Hanoi City People's Court trialed defendant Javier Engracia Ebalang...

the Hanoi City People's Court trialed defendant Javier Engracia Ebalang, 41, a Filipino citizen, on charges of illegal transportation of narcotics into Vietnam. She was sentenced to death.
On April 27, 2012, at Hanoi’s Noi Bai international airport, the police caught in the act Javier illegally transporting drugs into Vietnam on a flight from Doha to Hanoi.
The authorities detected three yellow plastic packs containing white crystals, weighing more than 5kg, in the bottom of her suitcase. The white substance was then defined as Methamphetamine.
Javier testified that in early April 2012, a friend hired her to go to Bangkok, Thailand, to transport goods to other countries, with $300 per trip.
Javier declared that she only knew the suitcases containing banned goods but she did not know it was drugs. She insisted that in this case, she was just a victim.