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Hanoi court sentences 3 heroin traffickers to death HANOI -- Three people were sentenced to death after a Hanoi court found them guilty Friday of trafficking 1.8 kilograms (four pounds) of heroin, a court clerk said. Judges in the three-day trial also handed life prison terms to two others and jail sentences of between 10 months and 20 years to four more gang members, the clerk from Hanoi People’s Court said. The defendants, several of whom came from the same extended family, were convicted of trafficking the heroin from the northern mountainous Son La province to Hanoi between June and August last year. In communist Vietnam anyone found guilty of possessing more than 600 grams of heroin or over 20 kilograms of opium is given the death penalty. |
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