The Malaysian High Court sentenced factory worker Muhammad Khairul Esa Jemali, 22, to death for trafficking 316.53 grams of cannabis on 8 May 2008.[1][2] Judicial Commissioner Kamarudin Hashim passed the mandatory death sentence on 17 December 2009 and added three years jail for a second drug charge.[1] A European campaign report on Malaysia’s December 2009 death sentences confirms that Jemali, 22, was sentenced to be hanged on 17 December for trafficking 316 grams of cannabis in 2008.[2]
Factory worker sentenced to death over 317 g of cannabis
The Malaysian High Court on 17 December 2009 sentenced factory worker Muhammad Khairul Esa Jemali, 22, to death for trafficking 316.53 grams of cannabis in May 2008. Judicial Commissioner Kamarudin Hashim also imposed three years jail on a second drug charge.
🇲🇾 Malaysia
- Charged
- 1
- Cannabis
- 316.53 g
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Sentenced
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Charged
- 1
- Cannabis
- 316.53 g
- Agency type
- Anti-narcotics agency, Court
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (316.53 g)
- Activity
- Trafficking
- Setting
- Other building, Prison
- Case stage
- Sentenced
- Sentence
- Death sentence
Sources
- Hands Off Cainhandsoffcain.infoMALAYSIA. FACTORY WORKER TO HANG
- Users Voiceusersvoice.orgCampaign targets Malaysia to end death penalty for drug offences
Open questions the AI reported
- The opened sources do not name the court city or where the May 2008 offence took place.
- The nature of the second drug charge behind the three-year jail term was not detailed.
- The opened sources report no appeal or later outcome.
- No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.