Filipino drug trafficker executed
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December 9, 2011, Friday
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A FILIPINO drug trafficker was put to death yesterday in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou.
Hours before he was executed, he was allowed to meet briefly with two siblings and two cousins who traveled to south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay told reporters in Manila.
The man was then led to a courtroom where the sentence was read out and then taken to the death chamber in Liuzhou, about two hours from the prison, where he was given a lethal injection at 12:30pm, he said.
The 35-year-old has not been identified in either country. He was arrested in 2008 at Guilin International Airport in Guangxi while trying to smuggle 1.5 kilograms of heroin from Malaysia. Smuggling more than 50 grams of heroin is punishable by death in China.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters that the case was handled in accordance with the law and that the countries had been in contact over it.
Philippine government officials have said they respect China's judicial system and that the execution would not hurt bilateral relations.
The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006.
The head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Jose Gutierrez Jr, said earlier that authorities were hunting for the recruiter of the executed drug mule, who was suspected to be a member of an African drug trafficking syndicate. He said the man convicted in China had previously engaged in drug trafficking and was paid US$4,000 to US$6,000 for every smuggling operation.
In March, China executed three Filipino workers, also convicted of smuggling heroin. The Philippine government said it was able to prove that a drug syndicate had taken advantage of the Filipinos.
Hours before he was executed, he was allowed to meet briefly with two siblings and two cousins who traveled to south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay told reporters in Manila.
The man was then led to a courtroom where the sentence was read out and then taken to the death chamber in Liuzhou, about two hours from the prison, where he was given a lethal injection at 12:30pm, he said.
The 35-year-old has not been identified in either country. He was arrested in 2008 at Guilin International Airport in Guangxi while trying to smuggle 1.5 kilograms of heroin from Malaysia. Smuggling more than 50 grams of heroin is punishable by death in China.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters that the case was handled in accordance with the law and that the countries had been in contact over it.
Philippine government officials have said they respect China's judicial system and that the execution would not hurt bilateral relations.
The Philippines abolished the death penalty in 2006.
The head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Jose Gutierrez Jr, said earlier that authorities were hunting for the recruiter of the executed drug mule, who was suspected to be a member of an African drug trafficking syndicate. He said the man convicted in China had previously engaged in drug trafficking and was paid US$4,000 to US$6,000 for every smuggling operation.
In March, China executed three Filipino workers, also convicted of smuggling heroin. The Philippine government said it was able to prove that a drug syndicate had taken advantage of the Filipinos.
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