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http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/26/china.executions.ap/index.html
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- China executed 32 people who were sentenced to death for drug-related crimes at public rallies held nationwide to mark a United Nations anti-drug day, officials and state media said Wednesday.
Thousands of people gathered Tuesday at auditoriums and stadiums to watch the rallies, which are held every year to observe International Anti-Drug Day on June 26. U.N. officials have said they do not condone the executions.
Another 76 accused drug criminals were given prison terms of up to life at the rallies.
In Shanghai, judges condemned three men on drug-trafficking charges in front of more than 1,000 people in a public auditorium.
The three were immediately taken in handcuffs to an undisclosed location in Shanghai's northern suburbs and shot, said a spokesman for the Shanghai Higher People's Court, which organized the rally.
Executions in China are usually by gunshot to the back of the head or chest.
The three men executed in Shanghai were found guilty of smuggling heroin, Ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine -- better known as "ice" -- said the spokesman, who gave only his family name, Huang.
He said that another 52 people accused of drug crimes got prison terms of a few years to life.
Drugs burned
In the southwest city of Chengdu, nine men were shot after a rally in which thousands cheered as police burned piles of seized heroin and Ecstasy, a state-run newspaper said.
Five more people were given suspended death sentences, which are usually reduced to life sentences for good behavior, said the Sichuan Zaixian Yitianfu newspaper.
Sixteen people were executed in the southeast province of Fujian after rallies in three cities.
Some of the 16 were accused of being members of a gang that bought guns to protect its drug-smuggling and producing operations, the China News Service said. It said another nine people were given jail terms.
In the central province of Anhui, two people were executed following a rally, the Jianghui Morning Post said. It said four others were given suspended death sentences.
Police in Beijing executed two people for selling Ecstasy, the Beijing Morning Post said.
In a separate case, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court issued suspended death sentences to two people and jail terms to four others all from the northwest region of Xinjiang, the newspaper said. It said the six were found guilty of smuggling heroin.
The reports could not be immediately confirmed.
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This pisses me off so bad, people cheered while humans where killed in public probably with out fair trials
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- China executed 32 people who were sentenced to death for drug-related crimes at public rallies held nationwide to mark a United Nations anti-drug day, officials and state media said Wednesday.
Thousands of people gathered Tuesday at auditoriums and stadiums to watch the rallies, which are held every year to observe International Anti-Drug Day on June 26. U.N. officials have said they do not condone the executions.
Another 76 accused drug criminals were given prison terms of up to life at the rallies.
In Shanghai, judges condemned three men on drug-trafficking charges in front of more than 1,000 people in a public auditorium.
The three were immediately taken in handcuffs to an undisclosed location in Shanghai's northern suburbs and shot, said a spokesman for the Shanghai Higher People's Court, which organized the rally.
Executions in China are usually by gunshot to the back of the head or chest.
The three men executed in Shanghai were found guilty of smuggling heroin, Ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine -- better known as "ice" -- said the spokesman, who gave only his family name, Huang.
He said that another 52 people accused of drug crimes got prison terms of a few years to life.
Drugs burned
In the southwest city of Chengdu, nine men were shot after a rally in which thousands cheered as police burned piles of seized heroin and Ecstasy, a state-run newspaper said.
Five more people were given suspended death sentences, which are usually reduced to life sentences for good behavior, said the Sichuan Zaixian Yitianfu newspaper.
Sixteen people were executed in the southeast province of Fujian after rallies in three cities.
Some of the 16 were accused of being members of a gang that bought guns to protect its drug-smuggling and producing operations, the China News Service said. It said another nine people were given jail terms.
In the central province of Anhui, two people were executed following a rally, the Jianghui Morning Post said. It said four others were given suspended death sentences.
Police in Beijing executed two people for selling Ecstasy, the Beijing Morning Post said.
In a separate case, the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court issued suspended death sentences to two people and jail terms to four others all from the northwest region of Xinjiang, the newspaper said. It said the six were found guilty of smuggling heroin.
The reports could not be immediately confirmed.
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This pisses me off so bad, people cheered while humans where killed in public probably with out fair trials
