UAE: TOP COURT OVERTURNS DEATH VERDICT ON 10 DRUG DEALERS

The UAE’s top court has annulled death sentences against 10 Pakistani drug dealers and reduced verdicts for four other convicts.
Ten of the 14 defendants had been sentenced to death by a lower court for smuggling 2.6 tonnes of hashish into the UAE while another one got 10 years in jail. The remaining three defendants were given various prison sentences. The Federal Supreme Court said its decision to annul the death verdicts was based on the fact that the defendants were caught smuggling drugs for another dealer rather than for themselves.
It reduced the jail sentence for the 11th defendant and ordered confining the remaining three to the social care centre pending deportation on the grounds they are teenagers.