Vietnam to Execute Australian Heroin Smuggler
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court yesterday sentenced 46 year old Australian Mai Cong Thanh, a native of Vietnam, to death for smuggling approximately 2 kilograms of heroin into Vietnam in loudspeakers. He is the second Austrailian to be sentenced to death in a year.
Vietnam, which has vowed to get tougher on drugs, launched a nationwide police crackdown this month on social vices such as prostitution and drugs abuse.
Meanwhile, in Bali, the Bali Nine were taken back to the airport and made to reenact the crime for police. It's a peculiarity of Indonesian law, that in deciding which charges to bring against a suspect, the police can force him or her to reenact the crime.
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