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Four Japanese held over drug smuggling
By Wang Xiang |
July 5, 2010, Monday
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CHINA has detained four Japanese men on charges of drug smuggling, after four other Japanese men were executed in China this April for the same offence.
The four, aged between 40 to 69, was detained on June 19 in a hotel suite in Shenyang City in northeast China's Liaoning Province, Beijing-based Global Times quoted a Japanese official as saying today.
The official with Japan's foreign ministry said the Public Security Bureau in Liaoning Province notified the Consulate General of Japan in Shenyang about this matter. No more details were available.
The report said police still don't know whether the four men were cooperating in drug deals or how were they connected.
China executed four Japanese men in the same province for drug smuggling this April. They were sentenced to death in 2007 in separate cases.
They were the first Japanese criminals to be put to death in China since 1972, when the two countries established formal relations.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said the execution was "regrettable" but hoped the move would not harm bilateral ties. Japan also has capital punishment, but drug smuggling is punishable with life imprisonment.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China handled the cases "in strict accordance with the law" and had informed the Japanese government of the planned death sentences.
The Supreme People's Court started reviewing every death penalty since 2007, withdrawing the lower courts' right to issue the final judgment.
The four, aged between 40 to 69, was detained on June 19 in a hotel suite in Shenyang City in northeast China's Liaoning Province, Beijing-based Global Times quoted a Japanese official as saying today.
The official with Japan's foreign ministry said the Public Security Bureau in Liaoning Province notified the Consulate General of Japan in Shenyang about this matter. No more details were available.
The report said police still don't know whether the four men were cooperating in drug deals or how were they connected.
China executed four Japanese men in the same province for drug smuggling this April. They were sentenced to death in 2007 in separate cases.
They were the first Japanese criminals to be put to death in China since 1972, when the two countries established formal relations.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said the execution was "regrettable" but hoped the move would not harm bilateral ties. Japan also has capital punishment, but drug smuggling is punishable with life imprisonment.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China handled the cases "in strict accordance with the law" and had informed the Japanese government of the planned death sentences.
The Supreme People's Court started reviewing every death penalty since 2007, withdrawing the lower courts' right to issue the final judgment.
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