25-year imprisonment for three drug traffickers in Hadramout

MUKALA, Dec.18(Saba)-
The Specialized Primary Penal Court in Hadramout province passed on Saturday a
25-year jail
sentence against three defendants convicted of drug trafficking.
In the hearings, chaired by Judge Abdu al-Awadhi, the court convicted each of
Abdul-Hakim Mahfodh Salem Zahfan, Wael Abdul-Karim Mohmed Ahmed, and Abdul-Fatah
Salah Salem
ba-Shrawi of possessing four pieces of Hashish, with a view of trafficking and
illicit using of narcotic substances, and sentenced them to 25 years in jail.
The court also decided to punish the third convicted in the case, ba-Shrawi, with
eighty lashes for drinking alcohol, and to destroy the seized narcotic substance.
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