Drug Trafficking In Malaysia Statistics 2020

The government then amended the law in 2017 to give courts the option of imposing either penalty albeit subject to certain conditions set out by the public prosecutor.

Drug trafficking in malaysia statistics 2020. The data on the number of drugs used do not necessarily match the number of drug addicts. Drug trafficking is one of the empact priorities europol s priority crime areas under the 2018 2021 eu policy cycle. And 90 of the women sentenced to death for drug. In 2o18 31 9 million or 11 7 of the population over age 12 in the us were current illegal drug users had used within the previous month in 2018 53 million or 19 4 of people aged 12 years and older used illegal drugs or.

Ooi chieng sim 51 and jackson boh khim hean 33 together with five myanmar men and a china national were charged with trafficking 4 980g of the drugs at a warehouse at atta global group bhd at. These pages give insights into the threat posed by drugs and drug. Crime index ratio per 100 000 population. General drug use statistics.

Among the conditions imposed to get the jail term is that the convicted person should have assisted an enforcement agency in disrupting drug trafficking activities within or outside malaysia. Malaysia has made it loud and clear on its non compromising stance in combating illicit drug trafficking and doing all it can to disrupt the drug supply chain. Drug trafficking is big business bringing in a fifth of all profits from organised crime. This is because some of the drug addicts are poly drug users.

Per case data refers to those who have one or more offences in the current year. In fact it s estimated that at least 30 of people arrested for suspected drug trafficking globally are women usually for low level involvement including as drug couriers mules. Drug overdoses deaths drug use among youth marijuana use addiction opioid epidemic drug war cost marijuana incarceration. The defence is rarely accepted by trial judges in malaysia in the context of drug trafficking and the death penalty.

It ravishes communities endangers businesses strains government institutions and drags down the wider economy. Of the 141 women on death row in malaysia as of february 2019 95 were sentenced for trafficking drugs compared to 70 of men found amnesty. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in malaysia it is a mandatory punishment for murder drug trafficking treason and waging war against yang di pertuan agong the king. Recently when the law was extended to include acts of terrorism any terrorists and anyone who aids terrorists financially or otherwise is liable to face the death penalty.

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