4 | Monday, May 27, 2019 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Tong blames foreign View from best seat Briefly SHANXI Five drug dealers meddling for growing sentenced to death Five people were sentenced to extradition controversy death for drug dealing by the Jin cheng Intermediate People’s By CHEN ZIMO in Hong Kong Court on Friday. Three others
[email protected] received death sentences with reprieves, and one received a life Executive Councilor and bar Some Hong Kong sentence. The rest of the 23 rister Ronny Tong Kawah has individuals and defendants were sentenced to blamed foreign forces for escalat three to 16 years’ imprisonment. ing the controversy over planned local media The gang sold 84 kilograms of revisions to Hong Kong’s extradi organizations have drugs between September 2016 tion laws. and January 2017. Drug traffick Speaking on a local news pro utterly strayed from ing is a felony in China. A person gram on Saturday, he said such reality by portraying can receive the death penalty if intervention by other countries convicted of selling or producing has raised the central govern the issue as a more than 50 grams of narcotics, ment’s concerns about the issue. political scheme .” such as heroin. As a result, he said it’s unfortu nate that trying to turn things Tong Ka-wah , executive BEIJING around at this stage would be dif councilor and barrister in Hong Kong SAR Community healthcare ficult. The SAR government proposed workers on the rise changing the Fugitive Offenders They have been misleading the China had 582,000 community and the Mutual Legal Assistance public by deliberately dissemi healthcare workers at the end in Criminal Matters Ordinance in nating wrongful information on of 2018, a 5.1 percent increase March in response to a murder the law revision, he said.