China executes South Korean for drug trafficking FMTNews FMTWorld
BEIJING: China has executed a South Korean national for drug trafficking, Beijing’s foreign ministry said, the first time such a sentence has been carried out on a citizen of that country in almost a decade.
“When defendants of different nationalities commit crimes on Chinese territory, Chinese law shall be applied equally”, it added. Beijing said the individual, who Chinese officials named as Jiang – which would be rendered Kang in Korean – had had their “legitimate rights and interests” protected.“The government has made multiple requests for reconsideration or postponement of the execution on humanitarian grounds through various channels since the death sentence was announced,” the official said.
The individual was arrested in China in 2014 in possession of 5kg of methamphetamine, according to Yonhap.China, the world’s top executioner, frequently carries out the death penalty by lethal injection for very serious crimes.
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