In a new ruling that deters drug dealers and contributes to the eradication of their trade, the General Court in Dawadmi sentenced a citizen to 15 years in prison, prevented him from traveling for a similar period from the date of expiration of the sentence, and fined him 100,000 riyals, for promoting the banned amphetamine substance, and covering up its source.
In its reasoning for the ruling, the court said: It was established that the defendant promoted the banned pills for the second time, and covered up their source, which is one of the criminal acts stipulated by the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Law in its third article.
The judge in the former Jeddah Criminal Court, Sheikh Dr. Youssef Ghormallah Al-Ghamdi, confirmed that the strict and decisive judicial rulings derived from the discreet Saudi laws that are based on Sharia, stipulated in its regular and legal articles the death penalty as a punishment for smugglers by firing squad or beheading with the sword, according to what the guardian sees. The matter is verified and compatible with the heinousness of the crime and its lethality in lives, honour, money and societies, and the smuggled killers are the most lethal and spreader of death, pests and destruction, as well as their experienced assistants who are appreciative of promotion, killing will be their punishment as the promoter for the second time.
Whose death penalty?
Article Thirty Seven of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Control Law stipulates:
Whoever is proven legally entitled to commit any of the following acts shall be punished by death penalty:
1- Smuggling narcotics or psychotropic substances.
2- Receiving narcotics or psychotropic substances from a smuggler.
3- Bringing, importing, exporting, manufacturing, producing, converting, extracting, cultivating or receiving narcotics or psychotropic substances, with the intent of promoting them in cases other than those authorized in this Law.
4 – Participation by agreement in committing any of the acts stipulated in the preceding paragraphs.
5- Promoting narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for the second time by selling, gifting, distributing, delivering, receiving or transporting, provided that a previous verdict is issued convicting him of promoting the first time.
6 – Promoting for the first time, provided that he has previously been convicted of committing one of the acts stipulated in Paragraphs 1, 2, 3 of this Article.
Deterrent campaigns and penalties
Judge Al-Ghamdi explained that orders and directives were issued to intensify and intensify the iron security campaigns to eradicate the scourge of drugs by all media and field means, and today we are touching the ripening fruits and the lush shadows of the state’s diligence and diligence. his mind, his presentation, and his morals; This is recorded with the supply of glory; To culminate in just deterrent judicial rulings for criminals, including murderers, smugglers and their assistants, promoters, and even victims who commit suicide among users and drug users.
