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Man Sentenced to Death After UN Calls for Vietnam to Intensify Drug War
Australian citizen, Pham Trung Dung, has been sentenced to death by a court in Vietnam – a nation with one of the harshest drug laws in the world – for attempting to smuggle heroin out of the country. The sentence came just one day after Yury Fedotov, the executive director of the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), urged the Vietnamese government to further tackle “the manufacture, trafficking, and abuse” of certain drugs. The Southeast Asian state, a primary location on the route of the region’s drug traffickers, currently has more than 700 convicts awaiting execution, and has handed down the death penalty to over 30 drug smugglers in the past six months.
During yesterday’s trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Mr Dung, 37, told the court that he had been assured a payment of $40,000 if he had brought the 4kg (8.8lb) haul back to Australia. He...
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