Friday, 11 July 2008

Vietnam court sentences drug traffickers to death

Radio Australia

A Vietnamese court has sentenced to death two Taiwanese men for trafficking more than two and a half kilograms of heroin.

Lee Chin Wen and Wei Chun Lung were arrested in May 2007, together with three Vietnamese women and another Taiwanese.

A court official has told the AFP news agency the three accomplices received jail sentences of up to 20 years imprisonment.

State media reports the ring had used Vietnam as a transit point to transport heroin from Cambodia to another Asian country, and Australia.

At least 37 people have received the death penalty this year in Vietnam, mostly for trafficking drugs.

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