October 2023
4 reports. Sentences 2 · Seizures 1 · Arrests 1
A fifth of Iraqi Kurdistan's prisoners are held for drugs
The regional government reported that 1,097 of its 5,283 prisoners were serving sentences for narcotics, 617 of them for use and 480 for trafficking, in prisons holding about three times their capacity. Arrests had risen from 142 in 2014 to 2,017 in 2022.
The leader of Namibia's cannabis challenge is jailed for possession
Brian Jaftha, who had brought the constitutional case against the cannabis ban, was sentenced to two years in prison for possession, about five years after his arrest. He said the plant material was never tested and that the investigating officer had died and could not be cross-examined. His lawyer in the constitutional case said the sentence did not end that challenge.
Somaliland police report a cannabis-cultivation arrest
Somaliland police reported arresting a man accused of growing cannabis in the yard of a house he owned in Hargeisa’s Ga’an Libaah district.[@1] The published account said traffic police worked with the district station; it reported an arrest and allegation, with no conviction or sentence.[@1]
Qatar's customs find 87 kg of hashish in bales of animal feed
Customs officers at Hamad Port announced that they had found about 87.5 kilograms of hashish packed among stacks of hay in a container declared as animal feed.