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“Catch Flights, Not Feelings” – 2022 Tweet of A Young Woman Facing Death Penalty After Being Arrested At Bangladesh Airport With Heroin.

An old tweet of 30-year-old Botswana woman, Lesedi Molapisi, who is facing the death penalty for drug-trafficking in Bangladesh, has surfaced. In January 24, 2022, the Bangladeshi New Age reported that Molapisi was apprehended at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka after disembarking from a Qatar Airways flight that had arrived via Doha from South Africa.


After scanning her bag, Bangladeshi customs officials seized over 3kg of a heroin-like granular substance. She denied having any knowledge that the drugs were in her bags. In a tweet dated January 10, 2022, few days before her arrest, she had written; "Catch flights, not feelings."