The court took into account the old age and the low quantity promoted to abolish the penalty .. Promoted «old» and only to imprison him 7 years

Okaz learned that the Jeddah Criminal Court decided to dispose of the death penalty for an elderly man. He only held him for 7 years, fined 100,000 and prevented him from traveling for seven years. The sources explained that the prosecutor called for the death penalty to be reduced to the accused for the existence of precedents, but the court justified the descent from the death penalty of the accused for his age, where he was over sixty years of age, in addition to the lack of promoted quantity of four pills of amphetamine affecting mentally and included the confiscation of the device The mobile phone used in the crime and deposited value in the account of combating drugs at the Monetary Authority and the abolition of the mobile phone used in the crime. According to the verdict, a former drug promoter was seized for a second time by a drug control ambush and was convicted of marketing narcotic pills. He admitted to the court, and after several hearings the court concluded that the reason for the death penalty and the prison sentence was insufficient. He appeared from the defendant's remorse and his age

Difference between smugglers, promoters and users

 Attorney Ghafran Ashour and lawyer Nashwa al-Mashhrawi told Okaz that there is a difference in penalties between smugglers, promoters and abusers according to the system of combating narcotics and psychotropic substances. The regime decided on the smuggler the most severe penalties, namely the killing in accordance with article 37 of the narcotics system. Import drugs from abroad, as well as the person who receives drugs from abroad and distributed to promoters. In terms of law, the system distinguishes between drug traffickers for the first time and between the return after the previous conviction. In the first instance, the penalty ranges from two to fifteen years, as required by judicial review. In the event of a return to promotion, In accordance with the provisions of Article 41 of the Narcotics System. The legal ruler shall be considered to be removed from the country if he is a foreigner. The case shall not be brought against a person who is on his own initiative for treatment and shall be referred for treatment. They emphasized that special treatment was provided to the students In the case of drugs, the system exempted students from the application of the penalties stipulated in article 42 of the narcotics system, and only qualified them to be disciplined, monitored afterwards to make sure they were good, and made sure that their parents were well educated and required those who benefited from this exemption not to increase Students must be 20 years of age and full time. That the student should not be a drug promoter or smuggler and that her crime should be the use of narcotic pills only and that it should not have precedents in the smuggling, promotion or use of grain or any precedents for moral offenses and should not be charged in conjunction with another crime or traffic accident