VIETNAM: 13 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TWO HEROIN TRAFFICKING CASES

Two separate trials sentenced 13 Vietnamese drug dealers to death on 30 November 2018, making them among the toughest in years.
A court in the northern Ha Nam Province sentenced nine ring leaders to death for trading 18.5 kilograms of heroin and and 563 grams of methamphetamine, local media reported.
On the same day, a court in Cao Bang Province, six hours north of Ha Nam, sentenced four men to death and two others to 20 years in jail each for trading more than 13 kilograms of heroin.