China court sentences eight drug traffickers to death
November 26th, 2008 - 4:23 pm ICT by IANS
- 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