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Sun, 02/20/2011 - 14:18
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Seven drugs traffickers sentenced to death

SANA'A,Feb.20(Saba)- The Specialized
Penal Court in Hadramout province has issued a sentence of death for seven convicts
of brining
in and possessing 2.4 tons of narcotic substances.
The verdict, issued in the hearing presided by Judge Abdu al-Awadhi, convicted the
seven defendants, one of them is a fugitive, and they were punished by death. It
also
stipulated the confiscation of two boats used for transferring the drugs as well as
weapons.
The convicts were captured in September 2009, while trying to bring about 2.4 tons
of Hashish into Yemen by sea in Haswin area of southern province of Mahrah.
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