Medan court sentences Mawardi to death for 1.3 tonnes of cannabis
The Medan District Court sentenced 24-year-old Mawardi to death on 6 June 2023 for carrying 1.3 tonnes of marijuana from Gayo Lues to Medan, work he said he took to pay for his mother's medical treatment.
🇮🇩 Medan District Court, Medan, North Sumatra · Indonesia
The Medan District Court in North Sumatra sentenced Mawardi, a 24-year-old man
from Gayo Lues, Aceh, to death on 6 June 2023 after finding him guilty of
carrying 1.3 tonnes of marijuana.[1][2][3]The verdict met the prosecutors’
demand.[1][2]
Presiding judge Yusafrihardi Girsang said in the online trial that Mawardi had
violated several articles of Law 35/2009 on narcotics, found no mitigating
factors, and held that the severity reflected the defendant’s violation of the
government’s anti-drug efforts.[1][2]Mawardi, present by teleconference, said
he would appeal.[1][2]
Mawardi had been arrested in Medan on 12 December 2022 carrying the 1.3 tonnes
from Gayo Lues to Medan.[2]He said he took the job, which would have earned
him Rp 2 million, to pay for his mother’s medical treatment.[2][3]
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