Sentence15 April 2025verifiedCET-8GEZE8

Tripoli court jails a man for life over imported cannabis seeds

The Tripoli Criminal Court sentenced a man to life imprisonment for importing cannabis seeds with customs documents that falsely described the goods. It fined him 40,000 dinars and permanently stripped him of his civil rights. The charge was importing the seeds, not growing plants.

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Tripoli Criminal Court sentences drug smuggler to life imprisonment, 16 April 2025. Libya Herald. Lead and second paragraph.

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