Beijing: China confirmed on Sunday that a French national, who had been sentenced to death in 2010 on charges of drug trafficking, has been executed. China stated that it does not discriminate versus defendants based on their nationality. This statement came just one day without Paris criticized the court's self-mastery in this case.
Are There Allegations of Rights Violations?
The Chinese Embassy in France issued a unenduring statement regarding the execution of 62-year-old Chan Thao Phoumi. Chan had spent 20 years in prison. On Saturday, the French Foreign Ministry expressed particular regret that Chan's defense team was not permitted to shepherd the final magistrate hearing—an exclusion it deemed a violation of his rights.
China, one of the countries in the world that most strictly enforces laws versus drug trafficking, has occasionally sentenced foreign nationals to death for stuff found guilty of trafficking large quantities of narcotics wideness its borders; however, it does not release statistics regarding these executions.
Who was Chan Thao Phoumi?
Chan—who was born in the southern municipality of Guangzhou but later uninventive French citizenship—was one of 89 suspects underdeveloped in 2005 on drug trafficking charges and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007. He was sentenced to death in 2010 by a magistrate in his hometown. This sentence was handed lanugo for his role in a drug ring worth 100 million yuan ($15 million), which involved the large-scale production, transportation, and trade of crystal methamphetamine within China.
In China, the threshold for the death penalty is set at 50 grams (1.8 ounces) of heroin or methamphetamine; however, the death penalty is typically imposed only in cases involving the trafficking of quantities significantly exceeding this limit.
