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six people were executed at Evin prison in Iran

six people were executed at Evin prison in Iran

Two of the people were identified by their first names Ghassem and Zahra. Ghassem The names of the other four people were not provided, eith...

Three Australians death penalty

Indonesia upheld the death penalty for serious drug offences for three Australians facing execution for trying to smuggle heroin off the resort island of Bali. Lawyers for the three men had hoped a successful constitutional challenge would add weight to their final appeal to the Supreme Court, which had previously escalated their sentence from life imprisonment to death. Should that appeal fail, their last available avenue would be a direct plea to Indonesia's president. The Constitutional Court ruled 6 to 3 that a 2000 constitutional amendment upholding the right to life did not apply to capital punishment. The court added that the right to life had to be balanced against the rights of victims of drug trafficking. Three other Australians on death row here had hoped that a constitutional ruling might lead to a review of their case. Three other Australians are serving between 20 years and life for their involvement in the smuggling ring. The so-called Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 for trying to smuggle 8.2 kilograms, or 18 pounds, of heroin into Australia from Bali

Three Australians death penalty

Indonesia upheld the death penalty for serious drug offences for three Australians facing execution for trying to smuggle heroin off the res...

Tony Manh reaffirmed the death sentence

Tony Manh, 40, the People's Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reaffirmed the death sentence for Tony Manh, 40, after hearing no new evidence for a reduction in his sentence, a court official told the Associated Press. of NSW, was convicted of trafficking 0.948 kilograms of heroin at the one-day trial , Phan Tanh, deputy head of the People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City, said. Manh was sentenced to death and ordered to pay a fine of 50 million dong ($3,755 Australian). Manh was arrested in March after security officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City found the drugs hidden on his body as he was about to board a plane to Sydney. The official Vietnam News Agency reported that Manh was paid $US10,000 ($A12,020) by a Vietnamese to smuggle the drug into Australia.The Australian Government plans to lobby Vietnam to commute Manh's death sentence to a jail term once the appeals process has been exhausted.Mr Downer today said the Government had played a part in achieving this outcome for four Australians originally sentenced to death in Vietnam."I've no idea what would happen in this particular case as I understand that Tony Manh has actually pleaded guilty - but in four previous cases, we have successfully appealed for clemency,'' he told Southern Cross Broadcasting."That's not to say we will be successful this time.''Mr Downe

Tony Manh reaffirmed the death sentence

Tony Manh, 40, the People's Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reaffirmed the death sentence for Tony Manh, 40, after hearin...

Steven Booker, Johnny Olvera

Steven Booker, 29, and Johnny Olvera, 40, were booked into the Tulare County Main Jail on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance for...

Michelle Leslie

Australian model, Michelle Leslie, 24, was charged in Bali for the illegal possession of two ecstasy tablets after her arrest. She was given...

Michael S. Rivera

Michael S. Rivera was placed under arrest on charges of felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and failure to stay within...

Nguyen Kant.

The Vietnam Airlines plane had been flying for an hour after leaving Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday when an Australian man of Vietnamese descent took ill, airline officials told the state-run Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. A passenger on an Australian-bound plane vomited a nylon bag of white powder suspected to be heroin, causing the plane to return to Vietnam in the latest drug mule case between that country and Australia, officials said.The aircraft turned around and made an emergency landing atTan Son Nhat Airport, where the man coughed up two more bags of white powder. He was detained by police and taken to hospital doctors found 30 red nylon bags in the man's stomach. It identified him as 35-year-old Nguyen Kant. In March, a man was arrested at the Ho Chi Minh City airport while checking in for a flight to Sydney. He was accused of trafficking 1.1 kg (2.4 pounds) of heroin. At the same airport in February, an Australian woman was arrested after being caught with 1.5 kg of heroin in her luggage. Several Australians of Vietnamese descent have been arrested for trafficking heroin to Australia from Vietnam in recent years and at least four were sentenced to death.

Nguyen Kant.

The Vietnam Airlines plane had been flying for an hour after leaving Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday when an Australian man of Vietnamese desce...

Ana María Ríos Bemposta

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Ana María Ríos Bemposta

Ana María Ríos Bemposta was arrested for allegedly carrying illegal ammunition. she was later released.

Holly Deane-Johns

Holly Deane-Johns is expected to return home to Perth this week. Deane-Johns has spent seven years of a 31-year sentence in a Thai prison fo...

Clive Minshull, Garry Henderson,

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7lcFELOzxUNceL825OjUlTYteOcvzZjH_6UQxYyKmJLUKj-dekJfCp6Xey6TnHFPSoJGfhCdL6xsIrt9vnHDZVq-rv0D0OwjYskVIKWjBjIyoU5OII8ms2I-71j66WnR-1qLcfwSiZg/s1600-h/_44313499_drugsdefcomp203.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148001679015863522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7lcFELOzxUNceL825OjUlTYteOcvzZjH_6UQxYyKmJLUKj-dekJfCp6Xey6TnHFPSoJGfhCdL6xsIrt9vnHDZVq-rv0D0OwjYskVIKWjBjIyoU5OII8ms2I-71j66WnR-1qLcfwSiZg/s320/_44313499_drugsdefcomp203.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a> Garry Henderson, 40, of Broughton, Flintshire, and Clive Minshull, 40, from near Mold, were arrested and were jailed at Mold Crown Court after admitting conspiracy to supply. Henderson also admitted supplying the drug and was jailed for eight years. Minshull was jailed for three-and-a-half years for supplying heroin. Henderson must produce an affidavit of all his means, savings and income, so that an investigation can be carried out under The Proceeds of Crime Act and a financial hearing will be held in March.

Clive Minshull, Garry Henderson,

Garry Henderson, 40, of Broughton, Flintshire, and Clive Minshull, 40, from near Mold, were arrested and were jailed at Mold Crown Court aft...

Barry Hess,50 executive from Melbourne could face the death penalty

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzb7X-GObuJT-kvUGcAojAWKxSWT6Hq_S9tjmbem7CpDAW2Qx9dieqWE5i-VUWA-Ou7ZeTFcKcKGP8c0HmEpdTwy2UhzLOZvRbtVkNebKtd4-UBUySpUPVfl-HKEWBajuEmCOO2QTn1M/s1600-h/HESS_narrowweb__300x370,0.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147992174253237458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzb7X-GObuJT-kvUGcAojAWKxSWT6Hq_S9tjmbem7CpDAW2Qx9dieqWE5i-VUWA-Ou7ZeTFcKcKGP8c0HmEpdTwy2UhzLOZvRbtVkNebKtd4-UBUySpUPVfl-HKEWBajuEmCOO2QTn1M/s320/HESS_narrowweb__300x370,0.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a> Barry Hess,50 executive from Melbourne could face the death penalty in Bali after prosecutors decided to charge him with trafficking marijuana and hashish. a former Ansett executive and general manager of Bali's collapsed airline Air Paradise, was arrested last month after police allegedly found 14.4 grams of hashish and 2.7 grams of marijuana in his Kuta home. Initially police charged Hess with drug possession, which carries a 10-year sentence.

Barry Hess,50 executive from Melbourne could face the death penalty

Barry Hess,50 executive from Melbourne could face the death penalty in Bali after prosecutors decided to charge him with trafficking marijua...

Fernando Carpio Cedeno

Fernando Carpio Cedeno, 23, of the Dominican Republic was arrested Monday evening on I-59, allegedly with 8.7 pounds of cocaine. Authorities...

Two bakers, a husband and wife team arrested in the Sicilian city of Palermo

Two bakers, a husband and wife team, have been arrested in the Sicilian city of Palermo for baking cocaine-laced bread rolls, a police spoke...

crystal meth in St. Petersburg

11 kilograms (24 pounds) of crystal meth and over 9,000 ecstasy pills have been seized in this year's largest haul in St. Petersburg, lo...

Two people were arrested on suspicion of drug storage and trafficking.

Estonian police have discovered over $1 million worth of various drugs in an apartment in Tallinn, Estonia, the police press service said Mo...

Joshua Blackburn accused Of Stealing $1m Of Cocaine

Joshua Blackburn, 32, is believed to have broken into the evidence locker room at highway patrol headquarters in Santa Ana.Deputy District A...

William Shaun Powell,Calvin Andrew Holloway,Carlos Lee Russell,Clayton Clark Lowther,Laura Kristen Meador

Woodward:•William Shaun Powell, 24, of Ridgeland for possession of crack cocaine, marijuana and Oxycodone.•Calvin Andrew Holloway, 25, of Ne...

Zeferi Hernandez-Gonzalez,

Zeferi Hernandez-Gonzalez, 40, has been charged with trafficking cocaine and sale and distribution of cocaine.

Felipe Candido-Anastcio,Jose Luis Jimenez-Rojas

Felipe Candido-Anastcio, 35, and Jose Luis Jimenez-Rojas, 25, have been charged with trafficking cocaine,

Port of St. Petersburg

Russian custom officers in the port of St. Petersburg discovered over 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of cocaine on a Liberian ship, local official...

Renae Lawrence serving a 20-year jail term

Renae Lawrence, an inmate at Kerobokan Prison. Djaja said Lawrence was one of 14 inmates whose sentence reduction suggestion had gone to the...

Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas Day reduction

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3YfF6qT3tBZOv_tPOjJ3g5FSvX3OvGFBsdhwmygF0_VPtYJnGcNUNoo0RGmNzCw0tb4cE2_KZ37ZefuL9FLqKUP8BJ13By35TYTb3L9-uABlvTJ5N73IWCiIA_uupa_w5v1DQ5PaUgGI/s1600-h/pt_CORBY_ent-lead__200x295.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148027998575453442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3YfF6qT3tBZOv_tPOjJ3g5FSvX3OvGFBsdhwmygF0_VPtYJnGcNUNoo0RGmNzCw0tb4cE2_KZ37ZefuL9FLqKUP8BJ13By35TYTb3L9-uABlvTJ5N73IWCiIA_uupa_w5v1DQ5PaUgGI/s320/pt_CORBY_ent-lead__200x295.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a> Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas Day reduction in her sentence because she had a mobile phone in her jail cell earlier this year. The governor of Bali's Kerobokan Prison Ilham Djaja today said Corby was not among 81 prisoners recommended for a sentence reduction to mark today's religious holiday in Indonesia. "We didn't suggest her (to have sentence reduction) because she is still under punishment over violation of hand phone usage inside the prison a few months ago," Djaja said. "One violation means one year of no remission," Djaja said. It is the second time Corby has been denied a sentence reduction this year because of the mobile phone indiscretion, with the Gold Coast beauty student also missing out on Indonesia's Independence Day in August. Corby was arrested in October 2004 at Denpasar Airport with 4.2kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag after arriving on a flight from Australia. She was jailed for 20 years but has maintained her innocence.

Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas Day reduction

Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas Day reduction in her sentence because she had a mobile phone in her jai...

25-year-old man

Police have arrested a 25-year-old man and charged him with taking part in the manufacture of amphetamine and property damage. It is allege...

Lauren Cullen

Lauren Cullen, 23, was arrested after collecting a bag from the luggage carousel. The bag contained 570g of crystal methamphetamine in a sha...

Jeffery L. Hudson

Jeffery L. Hudson, 45, of Dry Branch Road, was charged with trafficking.

Vertrees Brown,

Vertrees Brown, 61, of Breezy Hill Drive, was charged with two counts of trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Pamela M. Jones

Pamela M. Jones, 29, of WTLO Road, Somerset, was cited for possession of marijuana, third-degree possession of a controlled substance, posse...

Joe Cantu

Joe Cantu, 47, of San Antonio, had been found dead with more than 13 stab wounds. The authorities said they had not determined the motive fo...

Jachike, Mayabma, foreign drug gangs are currently active in Thailand

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hRrxtGfa8RNvuIKAEXqzw8Y7E8gBf7nPgTCgj27BVA7XIaq3TTiDrMpc0Vo_DuPXuyBw5cBZQrRvFwXFGatYkkqLTqUoCIZutvwt5Yz61z76qzWNMFHThvWg5fNCJjr64rfVdz64n9w/s1600-h/231207_pers16.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5147707314842297522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hRrxtGfa8RNvuIKAEXqzw8Y7E8gBf7nPgTCgj27BVA7XIaq3TTiDrMpc0Vo_DuPXuyBw5cBZQrRvFwXFGatYkkqLTqUoCIZutvwt5Yz61z76qzWNMFHThvWg5fNCJjr64rfVdz64n9w/s320/231207_pers16.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a> West Africans, selling marijuana in Bangkok is a profitable business. One kilogramme bought for 10,000 baht in Nong Khai can be divided into small quantities and sold for up to 200 baht per gramme, depending on the perceived wealth of the customer. The raid on November 30 was under the overall command of the NSB Commissioner, Pol Lt-Gen Wut Liptapallop and his deputy, Pol Maj-Gen Aditep Panjamanond. Pol Maj-Gen Amaresrit, who assigned Pol Col Ittipol Kitsuwan from Division 1 to put everything together, was in charge of planning, execution and coordination of the operations with other agencies, such as the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and the Food and Drug and Administration. The operation was observed by officers from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). They have been working with the Thai anti-narcotics agencies for decades and have collaborated in many large seizures and arrests of important drug traffickers. According to Pol Maj-Gen Amaresrit, a number of a foreign drug gangs are currently active in Thailand, but the syndicates from West African nations are the most troublesome. They are the most lethal and dangerous, because they are selling drugs locally. Amaresrit noted. He added: "Several West African gangs are active now in Thailand and we are going after them. They smuggle drugs, especially heroin, from Thailand to other countries and import cocaine and other drugs to Thailand. Many live here illegally, without a passport, or possess a counterfeit or altered one. Some have overstayed their visas." Jachike was found to be in possession of a South African passport with his photo in it, but he told the police during a later interrogation that he is a Nigerian national. A Lesotho passport with a photo of another person was also found in his room. Another suspect who gave his name as Mayabma produced no passport and didn't give his nationality. There are several hundreds West Africans in Thai jails now. "The heads of the syndicates are very clever," he continued. "They don't live in the areas where the gangs operate, but in suburbs like Phrakanong or Prawet where we have less control over them. Their people stay around Sukhumvit and sell drugs to the locals. More often than not but they are addicted themselves, usually to cocaine," Amaresrit said.

Jachike, Mayabma, foreign drug gangs are currently active in Thailand

West Africans, selling marijuana in Bangkok is a profitable business. One kilogramme bought for 10,000 baht in Nong Khai can be divided into...

Jesse James Elliott

Jesse James Elliott is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, marijuana, and magic mushrooms, as well as possession...