The number
China Daily | Updated: 2014-12-12 07:44
84,000
More than 84,000 drug criminals in China were sentenced in the first 10 months of 2014, the country's Supreme People's Court said on Thursday. According to the Fifth Criminal Court of the SPC, courts nationwide handled 433,128 drug-related cases between 2007 and 2013 and handed down verdicts on 471,302 criminals. Among these is the high-profile case of Myanmar drug trafficker Naw Kham, who sold drugs along the Mekong River and killed 13 Chinese sailors in 2011.
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