MALAYSIA. INDONESIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

a Malaysian court sentenced Mardani Hussin, an Indonesian man, to death by hanging for trafficking cannabis. Hussin, 29, a labourer from Aceh province, Indonesia, had reportedly entered Malaysia without a valid permit in April 2002 and committed the offence six months later.
"Many of your fellow countrymen came here to earn a proper living," High Court judge Abdull Hamid Embong was quoted as telling him. "I am sure they are ashamed of your act." Mardani was charged with trafficking 927 grammes (32.5 ounces) of cannabis in the capital on October 22, 2002. He was riding on a motorcycle when he was stopped by police who searched him and seized a parcel with the drug.