Czech jailed in Pakistan for drug smuggling free to leave

Czech Tereza Hlůšková, who was convicted of drug smuggling in Pakistan in 2019 and acquitted last November, is now free to leave the country. On Wednesday, Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Pakistan Customs Authority, which tried to get her case reopened. Hlůšková is due to return home  on April 23, local media reported.

Hlůšková was detained by customs officials in January 2018 at Lahore airport in Pakistan with nine kilograms of heroin as she was about to board a flight for the United Arab Emirates. The Czech claimed that she had come to Pakistan as a model and someone had slipped the heroin into her suitcase. In March 2019, she was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined $800. She appealed the verdict and was acquitted of the charges last November.