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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·OCTOBER 23, 2000
Tajikistan

A court in Tajikistan sentenced two Tajik nationals...

A court in Tajikistan sentenced two Tajik nationals to be executed for drugs smuggling

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A court in Tajikistan sentenced two Tajik nationals to be executed for drugs smuggling. The two were from the Khatlon in the southwest of the country and were arrested at a checkpoint in the Jabor Rasulov District of Leninobod after police found 422 kg of raw poppy and 3.5 kg of heroin in their car.
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  • (Sources: BBC Monitoring International Reports, 23/10/2000)