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VIETNAM. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Vietnamese government officials inspect heroin before its destroyed

12 April 2006 :

the Nghe An People’s Court, central Vietnam, sentenced Tran Van Hoi, 34, to death for drug trafficking.
The court sentenced also sentenced an accomplice, Le Van Truong, to life imprisonment and seven others to up to 20 years after finding the gang guilty of smuggling 970 heroin cakes, 16,000 amphetamine tablets and 500 ecstasy pills from Laos to Vietnam’s central provinces.
 
(Sources: Thanh Nien News, 12/04/2006)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.