Malaysia: Death sentence communted to 30 years & 12 strokes of the rotan for trafficking 345kg of cannabis

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal today commuted the death sentence of a former odd-job worker to a 30-year jail term on two counts of trafficking 345kg of cannabis eight years ago. A three-member bench chaired by Justice Che Ruzima Ghazali also ordered Faizal Zainal Abidin, 46, to be given 24 strokes of the rotan, the […]