A British woman being held in Bali over a £1.6m cocaine haul has been taken to hospital after complaining of illness.
Speaking to the BBC from hospital, Rachel Dougall said she had insomnia and had not slept or eaten for days
Ms Dougall was arrested by Indonesian police on suspicion of drug trafficking at the end of May, along with two other Britons and an Indian national.
They were held following the arrest of Lindsay Sandiford, 55, who was allegedly caught with 4.8kg of drugs.
Speaking to the BBC's Indonesia correspondent, Karishma Vaswani, Ms Dougall said she had been given a sedative on arrival at hospital.
While maintaining her innocence, she also complained that she had not been able to shower, and badly wanted to return home to bathe.
The two other Britons are Julian Ponder and Paul Beales.
Ms Dougall and Mr Ponder are believed to be a couple from Brighton with a young daughter.
After being arrested by Indonesian police, Ms Dougall shouted through the bars of her cell to an ITV News crew at Bali police headquarters: "It's a fit-up; get us a decent lawyer."
She said she was being treated "badly".
Indonesian customs officers earlier said the four Britons could face the death penalty.
But officials are also reported to have said that Mrs Sandiford, 55, originally from Redcar, Teesside, whose last known address was in Cheltenham, may be spared the death sentence because she helped to catch three other suspected members of the smuggling operation - who according to Indonesian law could face a firing squad.
Indonesia has some of the toughest anti-drugs laws in the world.
The death penalty has been used in the past for drug traffickers, but in recent years it has been applied infrequently.
More than 140 people are on death row in the country, a third of them foreigners.
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