China

Drug laws kill

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This video is part of the Release campaign “Nice People Take Drugs.” The film is intended to reflect the silence and hypocrisy of politicians regarding drug use as many of them have admitted to trying them at least once. But most importantly, every year thousands of people are executed in Asia for trafficking and/or use of drugs.

    A Chinese view of World Drugs Day

    The Law Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking came in to force in China on 1st June 2008. After this Ni Shou, the press spokesman of the Supreme People’s Court of China, introduced the legal punishment for drug-related crimes in China during an interview given by China Daily Newspaper:  courts across the country has heard 33,285 drug committing cases during the year of 2007 and has sentenced 38,154 drug offenders. Among them, 12,979 drug offenders are sentenced for more than 5-year-term imprisonment, life imprisonment and death penalty.

      The Great Escape

       

      Echoing the epic trials and tribulations of Steve McQueen’s great world war two adventure, 14 young inmates from china have attempted a daring break from their prison cells. However, instead of being war heroes who escape their evil Nazi prison guards, these 14 youths were internet geeks imprisoned in an internet rehabilitation centre. Nevertheless, the escape was certainly dramatic, involved them capturing their guard then tying him to a bed and made a break for freedom.

        Where darkness knows no limits

        This month Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report detailing the experiences of former detainees in the drug detoxification centers in China's Yunnan province.

          The song Akmal Shaikh said would bring world peace

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          Akmal Shaikh is a UK citizen facing the death sentence in China for drug smuggling. Akmal suffers from a serious mental illness and it is obvious that a criminal group took advantage of his vulnerable state. They convinced him that he could become a pop star and that he would become famous in China.

          This man is clearly not responsible for his actions click here to try and save this man from the death penalty

          Stop the Execution of Akmal Shaikh

           

            Chinese Communist Party Secretary dies from official binge-drinking

            Submitted by mej-juana on Tue, 10/11/2009 - 13:17

            Today many British newspapers are reporting on the death of Shen Hao, 46, the communist Party Secretary of Fengyang county's Xiaogang village, who died on Friday after an official binge-drinking-prone banquet. Mr Shen is now the third victim of a new tradition of lush business events in which drinking heavily is the way to prove status and engage in conversation. Previous victims were Jin Guoqing, deputy director of water resources in Xinzhou district (47) and Guo Shizhong, a family planning official from Xinyang, Central China's Henan province.

              Crossing the Redline: Two Issues that Need Urgent Improvement in China’s Methadone Maintenance Treatment

              Submitted by tbane on Thu, 22/10/2009 - 20:27

              Crossing the Redline:
              Two Issues that Need Urgent Improvement in China’s
              Methadone Maintenance Treatment

              WANG Wen

                Mentally ill British man faces execution in China for heroin smuggling

                A 53 year old father of five from North London may be executed by Chinese authorities any day now as his appeal against drug smuggling charges was rejected. Akmal Shaikh who had run a successful taxi company was arrested on 12 September 2007 in Urumqui north-west China carrying 4kg of heroin in his luggage.

                  The Difference Between Quitting and Not Quitting Drugs

                  One night in April of 2006, I was bathing with a friend at the bathhouse on a major street in Beijing. As I was resting in the big hall, suddenly many policemen rushed in, running straight for us in a very bad temper. They dragged us to their office, and didn’t even let us dress ourselves before we had to go.

                  Policeman: “Just finished shooting up, huh?”

                  This time I said, emboldened: “I’ve quit for a long time!”

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