At least ten people were reportedly executed for drug offences in Iran last week, despite authorities having publicly questioned the rationale behind executing people for such crimes.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces managed to seize more than 1,400 kilograms of illicit drugs in two operations in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, the provincial police chief announced.
Speaking to Tasnim, General Hossein Rahimi said that after extensive and round-the-clock intelligence activities, police forces in the cities of Mehrestan, Sib and Suran, and Khash identified an armed drug-trafficking gang attempting to transit a big haul of illicit drugs.
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Le 8 janvier, des responsables de la prison, située dans la province d’Alborz, à l’ouest de Téhéran, ont transféré à l’isolement au moins 12 condamnés à mort pour des infractions liées aux stupéfiants, les informant de l’imminence de leur exécution. Toutefois, l’exécution a été reportée en raison du décès de l’ancien président iranien Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Human Rights Watch et Amnesty International ont pu confirmer l’identité de quatre condamnés sur 12 : il s’agit d’Ali Mohammad Lorestani, de Mohammad Soleimani, d’Ali Ebadi et de Majid Badrlou. Selon des sources bien informées sur ces dossiers, les accusés n’ont pas pu consulter d’avocat durant les interrogatoires, et les jugements concernant Lorestani, Soleimani et Ebadi se sont fondés sur les « aveux » d’autres prisonniers.
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The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) seized 2,400 kilograms of narcotics in a raid conducted at sea.
As per a statement, the PMSA and Pakistan Customs had credible information that a large quantity of narcotics was to be smuggled into the country via sea.
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/160451-2400kg-of-narcotics-seized
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La culture d’opium en Afghanistan, premier producteur d’héroïne dans le monde, a atteint cette année son troisième niveau le plus élevé depuis 20 ans, a annoncé dimanche l’ONU alors que l’insécurité s’étend dans le pays.
Dans son rapport annuel, l’Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime (ONUDC) estime que la surface cultivée a augmenté d’environ 10 % par rapport à 2015 pour couvrir 201 000 hectares.
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“The EU and the US are the major destinations of the Afghan opium and the money is recycled back to terrorist activities in the country; the situation could not continue forever, ”Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary general of Iranian High Council for Human Rights, said in an interview with Brazil’s newspaper O Estado de So Paulo published on Sunday.
He underlined Iran’s fight against narcotics trafficking, including its hard stance against smugglers, saying that 93 percent of executions in Iran are related to drug convicts.
“I personally advocate reforms into laws, but do not believe that there should be a permanent halt in executions; we have 800km of border with Afghanistan, where the growing of opium spiked to 40 times that before the invasion of NATO.”
He said drug smugglers are not ordinary citizens. “Rather, they belong to an intricate network of armed cartels; Iran spends an annual amount of $200m in fighting these cartels; time now has come when Iran should not fight these cartels alone; we should bolster fight through receiving aid from international bodies to modernize facilities; a second issue is review of laws; the execution should be limited to the major leaders of a gang; this will immediately decrease the number of executions, which is on agenda, » Larijani stressed.
« This is a tactical shift and we will still be in the forefront of fight against drugs; however, procedures to change the law would take some time which should be respected; I think reviews could be made within 6 or 7 months; with presidential elections in May, we should avoid making the issue as a campaign trail debates, » Larijani told the daily.
Iran, which has a 900-kilometer common border with Afghanistan, has been used as the main conduit for smuggling Afghan drugs to narcotics kingpins in Europe.
Despite high economic and human costs, the Islamic Republic has been actively fighting drug trafficking over the past three decades.
The country has spent more than $700 million on sealing its borders and preventing the transit of narcotics destined for European, Arab and Central Asian countries.
The war on drug trade originating from Afghanistan has claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 Iranian police officers over the past 34 years.
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Det skriver nyhetsbyrået Reuters. FNs program for narkotika og kriminalitet (UNODC) leverer sin årlige rapport om opiumsproduksjonen i Afghanistan i slutten av måneden, men foreløpige resultater er allerede klare.
+:http://www.nationen.no/verden/afghanistan-produserer-stadig-mer-opium/
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Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 5
By Fatih Karimov
Iran’s police seized about 700 kilograms of opium from smugglers in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Police forces seized the drugs in an armed clash with smugglers in the city of Iranshahr last night, the province’s police commander, Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi said Oct. 5, Fars news agency reported.
read more:http://en.trend.az/iran/society/2668940.html
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RIAD, ARABIA SAUDÍ (29/SEP/2016).- Las autoridades saudíes ejecutaron hoy a un ciudadano pakistaní, condenado a muerte por trafico de heroína, informó el Ministerio de Interior de Arabia Saudí en un comunicado difundido por la agencia de noticias oficial, SPA.
Amshad Husein Ashraf Shah fue ejecutado en la ciudad portuaria de Yeda, en la costa saudí del mar Rojo, en el oeste del país.
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By Mark Isaacs
I am sitting in the corner of a tent with a group of nomadic people in the dusty highlands of southern Iran and the old men start smoking opium. A man with thick, white hair taps out the charcoal-like remains from a long, ornate pipe and starts compacting the substance together. Meanwhile, he heats a hot poker against the open flame of a gas cooker. When he has pressed the substance into a black button the size of his thumbprint, he applies a hot poker and the black button smokes softly. An alluring, sweet smell fills the room. He sucks up the smoke through a straw and his eyes glaze and shut a little as he enters a dreamy state.
Seeing men handle opium with such nonchalance shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, we are a short distance from the world’s principal area of opium production: the mountainous border areas of Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, known as the Golden Crescent. Ali tells me the men purchase their opium from Afghanistan for $4 per five grams. According to the United Nations, Afghanistan accounts for an estimated 85 percent of the world’s opium production, most of which is trafficked through Iran, the main transit point connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan to Europe. However, much of the opium trafficked into Iran never reaches Europe but is consumed domestically. According to Amnesty International, Iran is becoming a source country for, “the clandestine manufacture of methamphetamine, some of which is consumed domestically, but increasing amounts are trafficked to Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries in Asia.”
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http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2016/09/15/smoking-opium-islamic-republic-iran
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GUJRANWALA: The CIA Police claimed to have seized 80 kg of opium and Charas from a car and arrested seven persons including three women.
The car was intercepted at GT Road near flyover Gujranwala here on Saturday.
According to police, acting on a tip-off CIA DSP Imran Abbas Chadhar along with his team set up a check-point on GT Road.
During snap-checking, the team stopped a car and upon search, recovered opium and Charas, weighing 80 kg from hidden compartments made in the car.
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http://nation.com.pk/national/04-Sep-2016/seven-held-with-80-kg-of-opium-charas
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ISLAMABAD: Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has seized mega consignments of hashish, weighing 5.2 tonnes worth of Rs 3.2 billion in international market, in two major intelligence-led operations at Qilla Abdullah and Pishin. According to reports, ANF Quetta conducted successful operation in Qilla Abdullah and seized 4.95 tonnes of hashish.
The drug consignment was secretly stocked alongside a seasonal stream situated in Killi Shamsozai, Tehsil Gulistan, district Qilla Abdullah. Hashish was stuffed in plastic sacks and as per preliminary information, and the drug consignment was intended to be smuggled to unidentified location through another narcotics gang.
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http://dailytimes.com.pk/islamabad/04-Sep-16/52-tonnes-of-narcotics-seized-in-quetta
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Since the U.S.-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the production of opium in the country has increased by 40 times according to Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, fueling organized crime and widespread death.
The head of the FSKN, Viktor Ivanov, explained the staggering trend at a March U.N. conference on drugs in Afghanistan. Opium growth in Afghanistan increased 18 percent from 131, 000 hectares to 154, 000, according to Ivanov’s estimates.
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https://www.mintpressnews.com/afghan-opium-production-40-times-higher-since-us-nato-invasion/219974/
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Iran seizes members of major drug trafficking cartel
The head of the anti-narcotics department at Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Monday that the forces also confiscated 21 tons of drug precursors in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.
The security official added that the find constituted a large number of 220-liter barrels containing acetic anhydride liquid, a chemical used for producing drugs, that had been subtly placed in a number of cargo containers.
He added that the traffickers had imported the cargo of chemicals from China and Taiwan in the guise of second-hand auto parts and sought to unload the containers inside Iran and ship them to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces managed to seize more than 900 kilograms of opium and morphine in a single operation in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, the provincial police chief announced on Tuesday.
Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi said following round-the-clock efforts made by the anti-narcotics forces in the border city of Saravan, they identified a major drug ring that intended to smuggle a huge cargo of illicit drugs.
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80 000 usagers de cannabis ont recours exclusivement à l’auto-culture
Plus de 45 ans ont passés depuis l’adoption par une poignée de député(e)s, de la loi du 31 décembre 1970. Et si les mœurs de nos concitoyen(ne)s ont considérablement évolué, la loi, elle, s’est vue renforcée. Ainsi la contestation du dogme prohibitionniste s’est-elle vu restreinte grâce à l’article L.3421-4 du Code de la Santé Publique qui puni la « présentation sous un jour favorable l’usage des stupéfiants ». Or comment parler des drogues sans évoquer le plaisir qu’elles peuvent procurer ?
Ce dispositif légal n’a pas à notre connaissance, d’équivalent dans le Droit européen. Il constitue une très grave atteinte à la liberté d’expression. Ainsi la Brigade des stupéfiants est-elle devenue une véritable police politique chargée depuis la création du CIRC voici 25 ans, de relever et poursuivre les propos jugés « incitatifs ».
LIRE sur: http://www.economiematin.fr/news-legalisation-cannabis-prohibition-drogue-circ#disqus_thread
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In een scheepscontainer werd bijna 252 kilogram coke aangetroffen. Dat deelde het persbureau DHA woensdag mee. Dat is de grootste cocaïnevondst in de geschiedenis van het land.
http://m.hln.be/hln/m/nl/960/Buitenland/article/detail/2821249/2016/08/03/Turkije-neemt-voor-15-miljoen-euro-cocaine-in-beslag.dhtm
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police managed to seize more than 2,000 kilograms of opium in two operations in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, the provincial police chief announced Sunday.
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During the past three months 740 suspected drug smugglers have been arrested in Afghanistan.
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http://m.voanews.com/a/afghan-authorities-crack-down-on-drug-smuggling/3402301.html
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Un voyage-enquête au coeur du côté le plus obscur et le moins débattu de la guerre afghane : la connivence entre les forces d’occupations US et alliées et le business de l’opium et de l’héroïne, au nom d’un choix parfaitement cynique de « realpolitik ».
Une stratégie sans pitié, orchestrée par la CIA selon des pratiques opérationnelles mises en place depuis ses tout débuts, et qui a provoqué le boom de la production afghane d’opium et du trafic international d’héroïne, avec l’implication des militaires alliés, y compris italiens.
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http://reseauinternational.net/livre-afghanistan-2001-2016-la-nouvelle-guerre-de-lopium/
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