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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by amaccuish on Sunday September 15, 2019 @11:52AM (#20977758)
So drug offences are in china punishable by death. Previously, I think China was a lot more leniant on westerners committing such offences; they held them for a bit, then sent them home and banned them from reentering.

Here, they decided to enforce the law fully. You can argue it's unfair because the attitude of the state has changed and likely because of geopolitics. But from my point of view, the death penalty for drug offences was always a risk, so you're on your own if you decide to do stuff like that anyway.

So the tl;dr is, white westerners no longer get a free pass in foreign country.

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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by mlyle on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:38PM (#20978030)
This is one of the issues with selective/discretional enforcement of laws.

The original oppressive law is ignored, because "it's usually not enforced/used."

And then whether it is used for oppression just comes down to whether the powers that be decide you need oppressing.

Indeed, it's one of the criticisms of the war on drugs: that enforcement was tilted towards people that law enforcement, for one reason or another, didn't like (e.g. skin color).

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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by stjohnswarts on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:54PM (#20978142)
Can't really believe someone is actually supporting the death penalty for minor drug offenses as a good place to start with proving their point.
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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by dwaltrip on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:00PM (#20978170)
Not saying he should have been executed, but smuggling 500 pounds of meth is not a minor offense.
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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by dehrmann on Sunday September 15, 2019 @02:00PM (#20978514)
That will get you executed in Singapore, though the process for that happening is better understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SingaporeEmbarkationCard....

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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by amaccuish on Sunday September 15, 2019 @07:28PM (#20980078)
> Can't really believe someone is actually supporting the death penalty for minor drug offenses

I don't think there was anything in my post that could indicate that...

I personally wouldn't have the death penalty for drug offences. But there are many countries that do, and if that's the law, then you must follow it. Even more so if you are a guest of that country and not a citizen.

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Re:China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans fr... by JCharante on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:43PM (#20978077)
I don't really mind that people are getting punished for drug offences, but a scenario where someone is framed for it concerns me.
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