China court sentences eight drug traffickers to death
November 26th, 2008 - 4:23 pm ICT by IANS ( 2 comments )Guangzhou (China), Nov 26 (Xinhua) Eight African drug smugglers have been convicted and sentenced to death with two-year reprieve each in the south China province, officials said. Another African was jailed for life at the mass sentencing at Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, said a court official.
The four Ugandans, two Benin nationals and three Zimbabweans were convicted in the case of drug trafficking, the official said.
In six cases, drugs were found on the smugglers’ persons. About 1,200 grams of heroin was found in a 25-year-old woman named Asaria Mushangwe in June, the official said.
The largest amount of heroin, weighing 1,986 grams, was found in 39-year-old Ugandan woman Jean Ndawula Kirunda’s luggage when she arrived at Guangzhou airport from Bangkok last year, the official said.
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September 16th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
i think uganda government is not serious.first of all there are so many young ugandans girls ranging from 18 to 26 years old are being jailed and sentenced to death and the government of uganda can not even get serious on this cases ,yet this ladies are being used by some nigerian mens who are settled in kampala to sell their drug and you could find that this ladies are very poor and some of them are paying there brother to school and sometime university level.
Last I think they should be brougt back to uganda and they suffer their punish from uganda prison.
thanks
February 24th, 2011 at 4:35 am
The Ugandian government must do much much more to help all the young Ugandian girls and women currently being held in detention in China on drug smuggling offences. THE MAJORITY OF THESE GIRLS WERE DUPED BY EVIL AND CORRUPT NEGERIAN MEN PREYING ON THESE YOUNG GIRLS. THE UGANDIAN GOVERNMENT MUST USE MORE POLITICAL LEVERAGE IN OBTAINING MOST OF THESE GIRLS TO SERVE THEIR SENTENCES IN UGANDIAN JAILS. CHINA ARE ALLOWED TO TRADE FREELY IN UGANDA AND OBTAIN MASSIVE ECONOMIC GAINS ON BEING ALLOWED TO SET UP BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISERS IN UGANDA YET THE GOVERNMENT DO VERY LITTLE TO BARTER THE RELESE OF THESE GIRLS IN EXCHANGE FOR ALL THE ECONOMIC BENIFITS THE CHINEES ARE OBTAINING CURRENTLY FROM UGANDA. THE REAL CLIMINALS HERE ARE THE NIGERIANS ALLOWED TO OPPERATE THEIR VILE TRADE BOTH IN UGANDA AND CHINA. SURELY THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE CONCENTRATING MOST FOR THEIR EFFORDS AND RESOURCES IN ROUNDING UP THESE CRIMINALS AND PUTTING THEM OUT OF BUSINESS. WHY ARE THEY ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO OPPERATE AND SETTLE IN BOTH CHINA AND UGANDA. THEY SHOULD BE ALL ROUNDED UP AND SENT PACKING BACK TO NIGERIA. I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HERE FROM A REPRESENTIVE OF THE UGANDIAN GOVERNMENT TO DISCUSS THIS VERY IMPORTANT MATTER. A LOT OF LIVES AND FAMILIES IN UGANDA ARE BEING TORN APART AND DISTROYED BY THE INFLUK AND ACTIVITY OF THIS VILE TRADE MOSTLY ORGANISED AND OPERATED BY NIGERIAN GANGSTERS.THE UGANDIAN GOVERNMENT MUST ACT AND STOP PROCRASTINATING OVER THIS SERIOUS MATTER. THEY MUST PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD THESE WOMEN FROM GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS TRADE.