Entre rejas: las mujeres tailandesas pagan un alto precio por las drogas

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Entre rejas: las mujeres tailandesas pagan un alto precio por las drogas

4 julio 2014

Atraídas por el dinero fácil, una vía de escape de la pobreza o por la presión de la familia, miles de mujeres están encarceladas por delitos de drogas en Tailandia, que tiene una de las tasas más altas de reclusión femenina del mundo. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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Mai, 27, was sentenced to three years in jail after she was caught with 20 "yaba" pills -- a slang term for methamphetamine known locally as "crazy medicine" -- used by tens of thousands of Thais from taxi drivers to students.

"The amount of yaba was more than was considered for personal use so I was charged with selling," said Mai, whose boyfriend is also in prison for dealing methamphetamine.

She is serving her second stint behind bars in a prison in Ayutthaya north of Bangkok where she lives with her baby boy, and has no hope of early release in a country with one of the world's strictest anti-drugs policies.

A three-year jail sentence for meth possession is routine in Thailand, where use of the illegal stimulant is rife.

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