MALAYSIA: MAN TO HANG FOR TRAFFICKING

28 December 2009 :

a 43-year-old factory supervisor was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for drug trafficking.
Judge Ahmad Zaidi found Burhanuddin Salleh guilty of possessing 2031.8g of ganja in his house in Kemaman on October 3, 2007.
 
(Sources: New Straits Times, 23/12/2009)

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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