마약소지 호주 저널리스트 20년형과 곤장 15대 선고받다.
싱가포르에서 요새 한창 시끄러운 뉴스이다…
호주의 저널리스트가 마약 소지로 붙잡혀 징역 20년과 태형 15대를 선고받았다.
다음주 금요일에 확정이 되면… 41세의 저널리스트는 남은 20년은 감옥에서 보내게 된다.
징역보다 더 무서운 것은 태형인데… (UN인권위에서도 매년 없애길 요구하는 싱가포르/말레이지아의 태형)
1대를 맞으면 충격으로 보통 기절한다고 한다.
그다음 정부 병원에서 3개월 이상 요양하며 다음 곤장을 맞을정도로 회복되기까지 기다린다.
그짓을 15번이나 해야하니… 시간은 금방 지나갈 것도 같다.
세기도 세지만 정신적인 충격에 기절한다고 한다.
한대 맞으면 남자는 3년간 발기가 안된다는 이야기도 있다 ㅡ.ㅡ;;; 헛헛…
마약소지는 무조건 사형인 줄 알았는데… 그건 아닌가 보다.
어찌 되어갈지 더 지켜봐야겠다.
Australian journalist faces
drug charges in Singapore
An Australian journalist was arrested in Singapore on drug-related charges, the Australian government said on Friday, and faces up to 20 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane if convicted.
Peter Lloyd, a senior journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Cooperation, was detained on Wednesday after Singapore’s drug police had received a tipoff.
Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement that Lloyd had allegedly supplied a Singaporean man with drugs and was caught with 0.8 grams (0.028 ounces) of methamphetamine, one smoking pipe and six syringes.
It said Lloyd’s urine had tested positive for amphetamine.
“We can confirm the arrest of ABC journalist Peter Lloyd in Singapore on drug-related charges on 16 July,” said a spokesman for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
“The Australian High Commission in Singapore has visited Mr. Lloyd and is providing consular assistance to him.”
Lloyd will be charged in a Singapore court on Friday, a court official said.
A statement from the director of ABC News said that Lloyd was on leave in Singapore from his posting in New Delhi and that the organization has not been told the full details of the case.
Singapore drug laws are among the world’s toughest and anyone caught carrying more than 15 grams of heroin, 30 grams of cocaine, 500 grams of cannabis or 250 grams of methamphetamines faces a mandatory death sentence by hanging.
In 2005, Australian drug smuggler Tuong Van Nguyen, 25, was hanged in Singapore after he was convicted of smuggling 400 grams of heroin from Cambodia through Singapore’s Changi airport in 2002.
(Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Jan Dahinten)
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