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China sentences dozens of drug dealers to death BEIJING, Sunday (Reuters) China sentenced dozens of drug dealers to death in June ahead of the International Day Against Drug Abuse, state media said, despite a chorus of protests by human rights groups. In the southwestern city of Chongqing alone, 16 drug traffickers received death sentences in a public trial on Saturday, the designated international anti-drug day, the official Xinhua news agency reported. In Shanghai on Saturday, one man was executed for smuggling 1.8 kg of heroin into the city from Myanmar, a major drug producer, it said. "Dozens of drug dealers were sentenced to death in a series of drug-related criminal cases across China as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking draws near," the agency's Xinhuanet Web site had reported earlier. |
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