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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ggest-drug-trafficking-trial-12-TON-haul.htmlDead women walking: Vietnam sentences 30 heroin smugglers to death including NINE females
Thirty drug smugglers have been sentenced to death in Vietnam for trafficking more than 12 tons of heroin in the communist country's largest-ever narcotics case.
The 21 men and nine women, all Vietnamese, were found guilty of drug trafficking, while a further 59 defendants were handed sentences ranging up to life in prison.
Each appeared flanked by two police officers at the mass trial in Quang Ninh province, which was held in the yard of a detention centre, rather than a courtroom.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/urged-act-vietnam-death-penalty-22473129UN Urged to Act on Vietnam Over Death Penalty
The United Nations should immediately freeze anti-drug assistance to Vietnam after the communist country sentenced 30 people to die for drug-related offenses, three human rights groups working to get countries to abolish the death penalty said Wednesday.
The call from Harm Reduction International, Reprieve and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty cites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's internal human rights guidance requiring the organization to stop funding for a country if it's feared that such support may lead to people being executed.
"Our organizations have, for many years, been raising concerns about UN assistance for drug enforcement in countries that continue to apply the death penalty for drug offences," said the letter, which was sent to the UN resident coordinator in Vietnam and the UNODC country manager.
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