A British teenager - eight months pregnant and charged with drugs smuggling - is awaiting sentencing in prison in Georgia, South Caucasus. A payment of £137,000 by her family will reduce her sentence but what are the days like for Bella Culley, incarcerated 2,600 miles (4,180km) from home?
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Bella Culley's mother reveals her daughter - now 35 weeks pregnant - has been transferred to a prison mother and baby unit. This marks a significant change for the 19-year-old after five months in a cell in Georgia's Rustavi Prison Number Five, with only a hole in the ground for a toilet, one hour of fresh air daily, and communal showers twice a week.
Lyanne Kennedy says her daughter has been boiling pasta in a kettle and toasting bread over a candle flame but is now allowed to cook for herself and other women and children in the unit, and is learning Georgian.
She now gets two hours out for walking, she can use the communal kitchen, has a shower in her room and a proper toilet, she says, describing the improved conditions since a transfer earlier this month.
They all cook for each other, Ms Kennedy says. Bella has been making eggy bread and cheese toasties, and salt and pepper chicken.
Miss Culley has been held in pre-trial detention since May, after police discovered 12kg (26lb) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lb) of hashish in her hold luggage at Tbilisi International Airport.
Some accounts from inside the jail paint a stark picture of conditions. In September, Georgian media widely published an open letter they said had been sent from prison by Anastasia Zinovkina, a Russian political activist sentenced to eight-and-a-half years on drug possession charges. Ms Zinovkina, who insisted the drugs were planted on her, described the sanitary conditions as appalling and horrific.
The Georgian Ministry of Justice told the BBC in May that conditions in the prison had significantly improved since earlier monitoring reports. Under Georgia's new penitentiary code, which came into force in January last year, inmates have the right to fresh air at least one hour on a daily basis.
Miss Culley's lawyer has stated that there is a provision in Georgian law for pregnant women, raising hopes that the teenager could be released before giving birth. As the family continues to advocate for her release, the case remains a focal point for discussions about drug laws and human rights in Georgia.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Bella Culley's mother reveals her daughter - now 35 weeks pregnant - has been transferred to a prison mother and baby unit. This marks a significant change for the 19-year-old after five months in a cell in Georgia's Rustavi Prison Number Five, with only a hole in the ground for a toilet, one hour of fresh air daily, and communal showers twice a week.
Lyanne Kennedy says her daughter has been boiling pasta in a kettle and toasting bread over a candle flame but is now allowed to cook for herself and other women and children in the unit, and is learning Georgian.
She now gets two hours out for walking, she can use the communal kitchen, has a shower in her room and a proper toilet, she says, describing the improved conditions since a transfer earlier this month.
They all cook for each other, Ms Kennedy says. Bella has been making eggy bread and cheese toasties, and salt and pepper chicken.
Miss Culley has been held in pre-trial detention since May, after police discovered 12kg (26lb) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lb) of hashish in her hold luggage at Tbilisi International Airport.
Some accounts from inside the jail paint a stark picture of conditions. In September, Georgian media widely published an open letter they said had been sent from prison by Anastasia Zinovkina, a Russian political activist sentenced to eight-and-a-half years on drug possession charges. Ms Zinovkina, who insisted the drugs were planted on her, described the sanitary conditions as appalling and horrific.
The Georgian Ministry of Justice told the BBC in May that conditions in the prison had significantly improved since earlier monitoring reports. Under Georgia's new penitentiary code, which came into force in January last year, inmates have the right to fresh air at least one hour on a daily basis.
Miss Culley's lawyer has stated that there is a provision in Georgian law for pregnant women, raising hopes that the teenager could be released before giving birth. As the family continues to advocate for her release, the case remains a focal point for discussions about drug laws and human rights in Georgia.
