Woman sentenced for 3 years with hard labor

The Court of Appeals upheld the verdict and ordered the arrest a 26-year-old woman who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labor for consuming and possessing drugs, reports Al-Rai daily.

According to the case file, the woman was caught with a number of young men in an abnormal condition following an ambush by anti-narcotics officers during a raid on a suspicious apartment which was allegedly run to promote drugs to young people who wanted to buy ‘cheap stuff’.

During interrogation the woman had confessed to the charge and said she was introduced to the drug by an unidentified young man who said it was ‘a source of happiness’ and later she became an addict. She added, then she met his friends in the apartment and became their friends and since then was involved in trafficking and consuming drugs.

Source : Arabtimes

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