{
  "id": 16185276,
  "title": "Court upholds lorry driver's 30-year jail term, 12 strokes for drug trafficking",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/court-upholds-lorry-drivers-30-year-jail-term-12-strokes-for-drug",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T11:52:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/10/1562158/court-upholds-lorry-drivers-30-year-jail-term-12-strokes-drug"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today upheld the 30-year jail term and 12 strokes of the rotan imposed on a former lorry driver for trafficking 1.4645 kilogrammes (kg) of methamphetamine.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}