CHINA EXECUTES DEALERS AHEAD OF INT'L ANTI-DRUG DAY

six men were executed in southeast China's Fujian Province ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Zhang Jinxuan, Li Weiliang, and Dong Yunshi were sentenced to death in June 2009 for trafficking and transporting drugs according to Putian City's Intermediate People's Court. They were executed in Putian. Lu Jianjun, Shi Zhongping and Li Dezhong were executed in Fujian's Quanzhou City for dealing. Lu and Shi were convicted in 2008 of manufacturing and selling heroines from 2006 to 2007, the city court in Quanzhou said. Li was given death penalty in August last year for selling 25,000 grams of ketamine.