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            CHINA: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG CRIMES
                           December 27, 2010: the Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court in China sentenced Xu Xiaochun and Lu Juhua, both 40-year-old unemployed locals, to suspended death sentences for possessing 1kg of methamphetamine and small amounts of other drugs on January 21, 2010.  (Sources: Eastday.com, 28/12/2010)
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