The death penalty for drug offences

CHINA. ‘TOP GANGSTER’ SENTECED TO DEATH

the man said to be Shanghai's "top gangster" has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking and other crimes, a state-run newspaper reported on Wednesday.

VIETNAM. DEATH ROW PRISONER FOUND PREGNANT, TO FACE LIFE SENTENCE INSTEAD

a woman sentenced to death in Vietnam for smuggling heroin and detained in isolation became pregnant and would thus have her sentence commuted to life imprisonment, her lawyer said.

IRAN. THREE DRUG TRAFFICKERS HANGED IN PRISON

three Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan. The men were identified as Ali Karimi, Gholam Koohkan and Khodamorad Lashkarzadeh.

SAUDI ARABIA. AFGHANI BEHEADED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

IRAN TO EXECUTE FOUR PAKISTANIS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

the Zahedan revolutionary court in south-eastern Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province sentenced four Pakistanis and one Iranian man to death for drug trafficking.

CHINA. DEATH PENALTY FOR LARGEST HEROIN CASE SINCE 1949

Guangdong High People's Court, China, recently ruled on a smuggling case involving approximately 380 kilograms of heroin...

AUSTRALIA ANGERED BY BALI DRUG DEATH SENTENCES

an Indonesian court decision to sentence four young Australians to death for heroin smuggling, overturning their earlier jail terms, sparked an angry political reaction in Australia.

INDONESIA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR FOUR OF ‘BALI NINE’

Indonesia's Supreme Court has increased the sentences for four Australians convicted of drug smuggling in Bali to the death penalty, officials said.

VIETNAM. THREE MEN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

three drug traffickers were executed by firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City for smuggling over 800kg of heroin, the biggest-ever drug haul in Vietnam.

SAUDI ARABIA. BORDER GUARD BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

a border guard officer has been beheaded for drug trafficking, press reports said. Khalaf bin Faheed al-Inizi was found guilty of smuggling a large quantity amphetamines.

IRAN. DRUG TRAFFICKER PUBLICLY HANGED

an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was publicly hanged in the south-eastern town of Iranshahr...

IRAN. THREE MEN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

three Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in public in the southeastern cities of Zabol and Zahedan.

BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DIVIDING HEROIN

Sohrab Hossain, in his early 30’s, was sentenced to death and three female accomplices were awarded life imprisonment by a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

MALAYSIA. TWO MEN CONVICTED ON DRUG CHARGES ESCAPE THE GALLOWS

two men escaped the gallows when Malaysia’s Court of Appeal set aside their conviction and death sentence for trafficking heroin.

VIETNAM. THREE DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH

a court in the northern province of Dien Bien handed down death sentences to three people and life imprisonment sentences to five others after they were convicted of cross-border drug trafficking.

SINGAPORE. AMNESTY ASKS SINGAPORE NOT TO HANG TWO AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS

Amnesty International said it had written to Singapore President S.R. Nathan asking him to intervene to stop a Nigerian and a South African convicted of drug trafficking from being hanged.

Iran hanged a man, Majid Rigi, for drug-related crime.

Iran hanged a man, Majid Rigi, for drug-related crime.

IRAN. FOUR MEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

four men convicted of serious drug trafficking were hanged in the southeasten town of Zabol. The town is near Iran’s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and sits on a major narcotics trafficking route.

IRAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

two Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in the southern city of Kerman, reports said.

VIETNAM. COURT UPHOLDS EIGHT DEATH SENTENCES FOR HEROIN SMUGGLING

a Vietnamese court upheld the death sentences of eight people, including two women, for trafficking heroin from neighbouring Laos and Cambodia, a court official said.

INDONESIA. AUTHORITIES TO EXECUTE 16 DRUG OFFENDERS, INCLUDING 10 FOREIGNERS

Indonesian authorities were preparing to execute 16 people on death row for drug trafficking, an official said.

VIETNAM. SENTENCES TWO MEN TO DEATH FOR HEROIN DEALING

Bui Xuan Thai and Nguyen Van Chinh were sentenced to death after being convicted in a one-day trial in Vietnam’s Thai Binh province, about 100 kilometers southeast of Hanoi, said presiding judge Tran Van Loan.

VIETNAM. FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

five members of Vietnam's biggest drug trafficking ring were executed.

CHINA. HONG KONG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Li Qingyuan and an accomplice, Liu Xisong, were sentenced to death by a court in the southern town of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong, after being convicted of drug trafficking.

VIETNAM. FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR HEROIN DEALING

five people convicted of heroin dealing were executed in southern Ho Chi Minh City. The five, including two women, were put to death by firing squad before dawn.

RUSSIA. MOSCOW TO SEEK RETURN OF DRUG DEALERS FACING EXECUTION IN CHINA

Russian parliamentarians will make every effort to achieve the return of two Russians arrested for drug dealing in China so they avoid the death penalty, said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee.

VIETNAM. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DRUGS CASE

the People's Court of Hanoi handed down the death penalty to three men convicted of trafficking heroin.

SAUDI ARABIA. TWO INDIANS TO BE BEHEADED

an Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has awarded capital punishment to two Indians for smuggling narcotics into the kingdom about two-and-a-half years ago, reports reaching from Damam said.

KUWAIT. FIVE MEN EXECUTED FOR MURDER, DRUG SMUGGLING, RAPE

Kuwait carried out the executions of five men convicted of murder and drug smuggling. The bodies of the men were then put on public display from the gallows.