December 2023
2 reports. Seizures 1 · Sentences 1
Sri Lanka launches Operation Yukthiya against drug suspects
Acting Inspector General Deshabandu Tennekoon, backed by Public Security Minister Tiran Alles, launched a nationwide anti-drug operation on 17 December that arrested at least a thousand people a day in its first weeks.
Sana'a court hands five death sentences in a 994 kg hashish case
The Specialized Criminal Court in Sana'a sentenced 32 defendants in a hashish-trafficking case: five to death, 12 to 25 years and 15 to five years. The court ordered 994 kg of hashish destroyed and confiscated property; in a separate case that day, one man got five years and two others 25 years for possessing a block of hashish.