UAE to execute Iranian trader

The United Arab Emirates court of appeals in al-Fujeira convicted an Iranian to death after he was found guilty of smuggling drugs. "The Gulf" daily published yesterday in Dubai said the court sentenced one Iranian to 10 years imprisonment for smuggling drugs and another four Iranian as drug users. However, the sentence was resumed on the grounds of the law approved in 1995 providing for death penalty over drug smuggling. Since 1996 eight persons have been executed in the UAE according to this law.