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Inside Vietnam's harsh drug laws: Why traffickers face execution

Margaret Nduta was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam. [Courtesy]

Vietnam is one of the countries in the world with the harshest narcotic laws where anyone found guilty of trafficking 100 grams or more of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, or amphetamine faces the death penalty.

One of their latest executions is on a Kenyan, Margret Nduta, who is set to face the penalty for a drug trafficking offence.

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