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Sunday, May 27 2012, 19:51 PM

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Malaysian court sentences Indonesian to death by hanging

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A Malaysian court sentenced on Saturday an Indonesian with a death penalty by hanging for distributing marijuana in the country.

The court said that 33-year old Aceh-born Faisal Abdul Aziz was caught red handed by an undercover police on Jan. 23, 2006, when he was selling marijuana in a palm plantation in Dengkil, Selangor.

The police confiscated a total of 406.93 grams of marijuana from Faisal.

Faisal’s team of prosecutors said he would file an appeal for his innocence and claimed that he was framed. (and)