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[Rick Halperin]

May 13



VIETNAM:

2 Vietnamese arrested for transporting 120 kg of heroin



Police of Vietnam's northern Lao Cai province said on Saturday that they had 
arrested 2 men for transporting 120 kg of heroin.

The 2 men from central Nghe An province were arrested on Friday when they were 
transporting 329 cakes or nearly 120 kg of heroin.

The 2 detainees, Nguyen Van Dai, 43, and Nguyen Van Ly, 27, well hid the drug 
in a pickup truck.

They confessed that the drug was transported from Laos to Nghe An and then to 
Lao Cai.

According to Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of 
heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine are punishable by death. 
Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also 
faces death penalty.

(source: xinhuanet.com)








IRAN:

8 Daesh members get death penalty----Convicts sentenced for 2017 attack on 
parliament building, official says

An Iranian court sentenced eight Daesh members to death over a 2017 attack on 
the Iranian parliament, a judicial official said on Sunday.

"8 people were handed the death penalty and 18 others face trial over last 
year's deadly attacks. The convicts have 20 days to appeal. The trials began 
last month," President of Tehran Revolutionary Court Ghazanfar Abadi told 
Iranian state TV.

Simultaneous attacks on the parliament building and the Supreme Leader Imam 
Khomeini's Mausoleum killed 17 people and wounded nearly 50 in June 2017.

(source: aa.com.tr)

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Iran sentences eight men to death over 'Islamic State' attack in Tehran



The men were found guilty of aiding 5 militants who attacked the parliament and 
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's mausoleum. 18 people died in the assault last 
year.

A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard secures the area outside the 
Iranian parliament during an attack on the complex in June 2017.

An Iranian court on Sunday sentenced 8 men to death over attacks claimed by the 
"Islamic State" last June.

The men were found guilty of helping the 5 terrorists who attacked the 
parliament and a shrine to Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah 
Khomeini, the head of the Tehran Revolutionary Courts, Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, 
told state TV.

Ghazanfarabadi said the sentence could be appealed within 20 days in Iran's 
Supreme Court.

A further 18 people face trial over the attacks, according to the court's 
director.

Deadly assault

18 people died and more than 50 were wounded when suicide bombers and gunmen 
launched the assault on the parliament and Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran. IS 
claimed responsibility for the attack.

Security forces killed all the attackers. Iran said the assailants had fought 
for IS in Syria and Iraq.

Ghazanfarabadi said courts will later hear claims filed by families of the 
victims against the United States and Saudi Arabia, whom predominantly Shiite 
Muslim Iran accuses of supporting the IS, a Sunni Muslim militant group. Both 
countries deny that accusation.

(source: Deutsche Welle)