Friday, March 4, 2011
Monk jailed for smuggling $2.50 tobacco (Siwura etule rahasa)
A monk in Bhutan has become the first person jailed under the country's draconian anti-smoking law after a court handed him a three-year prison sentence for smuggling tobacco worth $2.50. Sonam Tshering was jailed Thursday for bringing in 48 packets of chewing tobacco worth 120 Bhutanese ngultrums f rom India without declaring it to customs in the Himalayan kingdom.
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