China launched a nationwide crackdown on drug traffickers...

China launched a nationwide crackdown on drug traffickers and users ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
In Beijing, drug trafficker Wang Dayong was executed on June 25 for deals involving at least 51 ecstasy pills, 733 g of ice (crystal methamphetamine) and 983 g of marijuana. Also executed on the same day was Li Bangcai, who was found guilty of trafficking in 800 g of heroin.
Six drug dealers were executed respectively by Beijing's No.1 and No.2 intermediate people's courts on June 25 and June 26, an official from the Supreme People's Court of Beijing reported. A Guangzhou court on June 25 gave the death penalty or prison sentences to 14 drug dealers and traffickers.
In south China's Guangzhou City, 17 drug traffickers were sentenced to death and various jail terms on June 25 at a public trial at the city's railway station. In Chengdu City, also in the southwest, nine drug traffickers were executed on June 25. Forty kg of heroin was burnt at a public rally at a local stadium.
In east China's Fujian Province, 16 drug traffickers were executed on June 25 by courts in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Putian cities. Nine others were sentenced to various jail terms recently.
Courts in the province had handled 872 drug-related cases since 2001, involving 1,297 suspects, of which a total of 263 people were sentenced to jail terms, life sentences and the death penalty.