Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...

Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999. Each criminal had more than 100 grams of heroin when arrested. Ruan Zengyi, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said that between January 1999 and May 2000, police arrested more than 6,600 people in Beijing involved in about 4,900 drug trafficking and abuse cases. 945 people in Beijing were punished with imprisonment or death, said Wang Ming, vice-president of the Beijing Supreme People's Court. Eighty-six were executed or given stays of execution depending on their behaviour in prison, Wang said.