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China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials
#10578939 - 06/26/09 08:34 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials
June 26, 2009 04:33pm
AT least 20 people were executed as China marked a global anti-drug day with stark warnings of rising illicit drug use. An equal number were condemned and hundreds more were put on trial the state press said.
The executions and trials took place throughout the nation in recent days, Xinhua news agency reported, with six convicted traffickers executed in Beijing in one day.
June 26 marks the UN's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, a date when China has traditionally executed and sentenced convicted drug traffickers to illustrate its resolve in fighting the scourge.
Among those sentenced to death was a Nigerian man identified by Xinhua as Osonwa Okey Noberts, who was convicted by a court in southern China's
Guangdong province of trafficking nearly six kilograms of heroin.
Other cases of international smuggling included a Chinese man convicted and sentenced to death in Beijing for trafficking 197 grams of methamphetamine from North Korea, the China Daily reported.
Two ethnic Koreans were also being tried for smuggling the drug into China from the isolated nation, it added. Their exact citizenship was not given.
Meanwhile, police in China's westernmost region of Xinjiang this week destroyed six tonnes of heroin, opium and hemp smuggled in from Afghanistan and Pakistan and valued at 300 million yuan ($54 million), Xinhua said.
Courts across China handled more than 14,000 drug-related cases between January and May, up 12 percent from the same period last year, the report said, citing judicial authorities.
Nearly 6,400 people have been convicted of drug crimes and received sentences ranging from five years in jail to death over that period, it said.
”There is a growing trend toward making (illegal drugs) on the mainland instead of smuggling... from abroad,” the China Daily quoted Zhang Jun, vice head of the Supreme People's Court as saying.
”There are more cases of smuggling and trading of chemical raw materials for drug production.”
State media reports cited authorities saying “designer” drugs such as methamphetamine, ecstasy and ketamine were emerging as a new and dangerous segment of the drug market.
The drugs were gaining popularity among newly affluent young Chinese who viewed the use of such substances as a status symbol.
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AsAboveSoBelow
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: DepthToTheCore]
#10579148 - 06/26/09 09:13 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Fuckheads
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: AsAboveSoBelow]
#10579420 - 06/26/09 10:16 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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i guess flatscreens and swimming pools in federal are better than that huh
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TheMushaman
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: johnnyblaze2316]
#10579593 - 06/26/09 10:58 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Death for drugs? That is utterly absurd! Considering Taoists and other Chinese religions have been using mushrooms for years I think this is quite preposterous.
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darius33
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: TheMushaman]
#10579808 - 06/26/09 11:51 PM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nearly 6,400 people have been convicted of drug crimes and received sentences ranging from five years in jail to death over that period, it said.
Five years is the minimum sentence? Caught with a joint and lose five years is pretty ridiculous.
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mr.bixby
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: darius33]
#10579856 - 06/27/09 12:01 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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darius33 said:
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Nearly 6,400 people have been convicted of drug crimes and received sentences ranging from five years in jail to death over that period, it said.
Five years is the minimum sentence? Caught with a joint and lose five years is pretty ridiculous.
China's government is ridiculous.
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: mr.bixby]
#10580027 - 06/27/09 01:01 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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I think the main point here is that China fucking executes people for drugs, but the problem is still increasing. I think that is a pretty good argument for not increasing minimum sentencing and having harsher drug laws. You want an example of what harsher drug laws accomplish? Look at China. Nothing but dead people and increased drug use.
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: lumibles]
#10580431 - 06/27/09 03:51 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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dont we live in the 21st century?? this shit is midevil...
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TTT
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: carcrazylt1]
#10580708 - 06/27/09 07:59 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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carcrazylt1 said: dont we live in the 21st century?? this shit is midevil...
Medieval* and look up trials in south east asia. Quite a few countries there are known to execute drug smugglers, users, and dealers.
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: TTT]
#10580788 - 06/27/09 08:33 AM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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yikes!
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: DepthToTheCore]
#10581664 - 06/27/09 01:37 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#10581699 - 06/27/09 01:47 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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this proves prohibition is more dangerous than the drugs themself.
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mr.bixby
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#10581719 - 06/27/09 01:51 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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EntheogenicPeace said: Of course they don't want their youth being corrupted with drugs... they won't be at peak performance for their sweatshop labor.
That being said, I'm no more judging the Chinese government & its evolution than that of the U.S. (both of which I oppose). The U.S. did the same thing in becoming an industrial superpower.
Maybe it goes back to the "worth of a Chinaman", at least the Chinese government no longer literally throws dead workers into their construction projects like in times of old with the Great Wall but still tortures and rules with an iron fist and state terror.
And U.S. "interests" abroad for cheap labor with little or no benefits, miniscule pay, or rights for the workers will continue, this administration and the one before it will not compromise the american way of life.
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Re: China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials [Re: mr.bixby]
#10582212 - 06/27/09 04:34 PM (14 years, 8 months ago) |
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I hears that in Xinjiang that weed is common from the large group of muslems that live there. Besides that, china is cruel with drug policy. China has little to do with Buddhist teachinga now, it's the "communest" psrty callin the shots.
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