TBILISI (Reuters) -A Georgian court ordered on Thursday that British teenager Bella Culley remain in detention until her trial on drug smuggling charges, which is scheduled to start on September 2.
Culley, 19, from Billingham in northeast England, was arrested on arrival at Tbilisi airport in May. Georgian prosecutors say she was carrying a large amount of cannabis and hashish in luggage she had brought with her from Thailand.
In previous court appearances, Culley has said she was tortured into transporting the drugs, and that she is pregnant.
Drug smuggling carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years in the South Caucasus country.
(Reporting by Felix Light;Editing by Helen Popper)
