Other - China marks anti-drug day with executions, trials

[chillinwill]

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.

June 26, 2009
Herald Sun
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...76-663,00.html

[Alfa]

I wonder what will happen if the Chinese will start their own operation web tryp and wipe out their research chemical producers.

[fnord]

What sthe story behind the photo? are they doing public beatings or something?

Originally Posted by Alfa

I wonder what will happen if the Chinese will start their own operation web tryp and wipe out their research chemical producers.

:O Fuck....

[Joe Duffy]

That picture is quite disturbing! And when it comes to bulk RCs from

China, I’d imagine the Chinese government are more interested in

revenues gained, so much for communism.

[akack2]

Originally Posted by Joe Duffy

That picture is quite disturbing! And when it comes to bulk RCs from

China, I’d imagine the Chinese government are more interested in

revenues gained, so much for communism.

Exactly,sell the Europeans the drugs and youre ok! LOL

The pic is probably from a Falun Gong demonstration,the cuts and bruises are obviously not real.Falun Gong protestors act as victims and government representatives that they accuse of torture.You can see them opposite the GPO sometimes in town mate,loads of them in cages and all that craic..