16 convicted Pakistanis for drug smuggling in Yemen to be provided counsel.ISLAMABAD, July 13, 2009 (Balochistan Times) -- All the sixteen Pakistanis who were convicted by the Yemeni court for drug smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain will be provided counsel to file their appeals in the appellate court A court having jurisdiction to review decisions of a trial-level or other lower court. An unsuccessful party in a lawsuit must file an appeal with an appellate court in order to have the decision reviewed. of the country (Yemen). According to sources of the Law Ministry, a total sixteen Pakistanis were arrested for their alleged activities of drug smuggling September last year and then all of them were convicted by the First Instance Court (FIC FIC First International Computer FIC Fogarty International Center (John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences; National Institutes of Health) FIC Fellowship for Intentional Community ) Yemen. One of them Khuda Bakhash was awarded death sentence and others were convicted to 25 years imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. of the charges of smuggling of drugs to Yemen. According to the senior official, one of the accused namely Nabi Bakhash who was awarded 25 years sentence has died due to illness about two months after his conviction. Embassy of Pakistan, Sanaa hired the services of a lawyer for defending the cases of these Pakistani nationals in the appellate court of Yemen. The lawyer will file an appeal before the Appellate Court shortly, he said. The court found the 16 men guilty of alleged smuggling around 10,000 kilograms of hashish hashish (hăsh`ēsh, –ĭsh), resin extracted from the flower clusters and top leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, and C. indica. into Yemen through the Arabian Sea. Authorities have said the men were arrested in September 2008 after their boat was seized by Yemeni coast guard patrols about 50 miles off the south-eastern Yemeni port of Mukalla. Last November, a court in Sanaa sentenced an Iranian man to death and 11 other Iranians as well as a Pakistani man to 25 years in jail over drug trafficking charges. According to a media report, during the past 4 years, more than 800 people involved in drug smuggling have been arrested, 150 of them foreigners, mainly from Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia by the Yemeni authorities. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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