The Tangerang District Court, Indonesia, sentenced...

The Tangerang District Court, Indonesia, sentenced to death two Nigerian nationals and fined them Rp 500 million (US$58,823) for violating Article 82 of Law No. 22/1997 on illegal narcotics and Article 55 of the Criminal Code on organized crime.
Presiding judge Permadi said that defendants Michael Titus Igweh, 23, and Hillary K. Chimezia, 27, were found guilty of running an organized drug trafficking ring.
"We are sure that maximum sentence will deter drug offenders.
We really hope that (by this punishment) the number of drug traffickers can be reduced," Permadi said.
The packed courtroom applauded the verdicts. The two defendants had been arrested on August 18, 2002, the arrests were made based on information from Marlena, 24, an Indonesian woman who had been detained a day earlier with 50 grams of heroin in her possession.