Topping coverage of Egypt in the international press this morning is 33-year-old British tourist Laura Plummer’s three-year prison sentence for smuggling illegal meds into the country. The court also fined Plummer EGP 100k. Plummer’s defense team said she would “appeal to have overturned or commuted,” Reuters reports. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office “will continue to provide assistance to Laura and her family … and our embassy is in regular contact with the Egyptian authorities,” a spokesman said. The British citizen apparently “misunderstood questions and admitted importing the drugs” when questioned by the judge, Plummer’s lawyer tells The Telegraph.

Plummer and her defense team maintain that she was unaware the meds are illegal in Egypt, explaining she had been bringing them in for her Egyptian husband’s chronic back pain. Plummer’s family claim “she’s already having a nervous breakdown and is being kicked and punched in the holding prison,” according to Daily Mail. British tabloid newspaper The Sun also has a series of photographs showing the “squalid” conditions of Plummer’s detention at the Qena prison where she will be held. The story is getting widespread coverage, with pickups in the Associated Press, BBC, The Guardian, Newsweek, Xinhua, The Independent, and BuzzFeed.

Coming in at a very close second is the hanging of 15 men convicted of a 2013 attack on a military checkpoint in Sinai, in what appears to be the biggest number of executions carried out under President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s rule. Their charges include “joining militant groups and taking part in carrying out, planning and assisting in killing a number of army and police personnel in Sinai,” Reuters reports, citing security sources. The executions were carried out at the Borg El Arab and Wadi El Natroun prisons, an unnamed security source tells Anadolu Agency.

“The executions of so many on a single day appears to be a reflection of the government’s recently declared resolve to crush the [militant] insurgency” following the Rawda mosque attack last month, the Associated Press says. Some, including rights activists and Islamists, believe the executions could “drive more young Egyptians into the arms of [Daesh],” according to The New York Times’ Nour Youssef. Others have slammed the trials as “a flagrant breach of international law.”