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:2017 - The Seychelles has at least 1,000 heroin users, and 2.3% of the 90,000 population are intravenous drug users according to the UN; among the worst rates in the world. The addicts have only appeared in recent years, says Shah. One reason could be the fact that the archipelago lies on the trafficking routes . | :2017 - The Seychelles has at least 1,000 heroin users, and 2.3% of the 90,000 population are intravenous drug users according to the UN; among the worst rates in the world. The addicts have only appeared in recent years, says Shah. One reason could be the fact that the archipelago lies on the trafficking routes . | ||
:2016 November - Seychelles judiciary releases 150 drug offenders as new law comes into effect. ... "For example the indicative minimum for aggravated manufacture, importation or trafficking in a class A drug like heroin, the most serious offence is 20 years and the maximum is life while the indicative minimum for aggravated cultivation of a class B drug like cannabis is eight years and the maximum is 20 years,” she said. Traffickers can now be prosecuted for any quantity of drugs, including fake ones, even when those have been manipulated to keep them below the statutory threshold. According to the Seychelles prison services there are currently nearly 80 convicts -- 59 men and 19 women -- serving sentences for drug-related offences out of over 400 prisoners. Twenty-nine men are also being remanded in relation to drug offences. | |||
:2016 - American sisters found dead in $1,800-a-night Seychelles villa had fluid on their lungs often linked to drug overdoses, authorities say - as locals tell of 'cocaine ... The sisters pictured in a September 19 photo while on vacation in Seychelles. .... ' It is a big problem here and lots of tourists taken the drug. | :2016 - American sisters found dead in $1,800-a-night Seychelles villa had fluid on their lungs often linked to drug overdoses, authorities say - as locals tell of 'cocaine ... The sisters pictured in a September 19 photo while on vacation in Seychelles. .... ' It is a big problem here and lots of tourists taken the drug. | ||