A Malaysian court sentenced Indonesian labourer Ruslan Bendadeh, 28, to death on 29 April 2003 for trafficking 436.2 grams of marijuana.[1] Bendadeh was convicted of trying to distribute the drug at a food outlet in Penang on 8 November 2000.[1] High Court Commissioner Su Geok Yiam said she could impose no lighter sentence because the death penalty was mandatory for the offence, but she allowed the sentence to be put on hold while Bendadeh appealed.[1]
Indonesian labourer sentenced to death over 436 g of marijuana in Penang
A Malaysian court on 29 April 2003 sentenced Indonesian labourer Ruslan Bendadeh, 28, to death for trying to distribute 436.2 grams of marijuana at a food outlet in Penang in 2000. The judge imposed the mandatory death sentence but stayed it pending appeal.
🇲🇾 Penang · Malaysia
- Charged
- 1
- Sentenced
- 1
- Cannabis
- 436.2 g
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Sentenced
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Charged
- 1
- Sentenced
- 1
- Cannabis
- 436.2 g
- Agency type
- Court
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (436.2 g)
- Activity
- Trafficking
- Case stage
- Sentenced
- Sentence
- Death sentence
Sources
- Associated Press (reprinted by Jawawa)jawawa.idTKI on death row for drug trafficking
Open questions the AI reported
- The account rests on a single opened wire reprint, so no second newsroom account was checked.
- The offence dates to 8 November 2000 but no arrest or remand details were reported.
- The report says the sentence was stayed for appeal but records no outcome.