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VIETNAM: 6 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
August 14, 2014: a court in northern Vietnam sentenced six people to death for trafficking heroin from Laos to be sold to China.
Judge Pham Van Nam said six, including two women, were convicted of trafficking 110 kilograms of heroin, from mid- 2012 until the gang was busted in May 2013, at the end of a three-day trial in Dien Bien province.
The judge said the case was biggest one ever tried in the province, which borders Laos.
Vietnam has some of the world toughest drug laws where trafficking 100 grams of heroin is punishable by death. (Sources: AP, 15/08/2014)
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