{"id":2886,"date":"2026-04-06T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:58:10","slug":"frenchman-executed-in-china-for-drug-trafficking-paris-condemns-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2886\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenchman executed in China for drug trafficking, Paris condemns death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, April 5 \u2014 A Frenchman sentenced to death in China in 2010 for drug trafficking has been executed, France\u2019s foreign ministry announced yesterday,\u00a0expressing its \u201cconsternation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chan Thao Phoumy, a 62-year-old Frenchman born in Laos, was executed, \u201cdespite the efforts of the French authorities, including efforts to obtain a pardon on humanitarian grounds for our compatriot\u201d, said a ministry statement.<\/p>\n<p>His defence team did not get access to the final court hearing, in violations of his rights, the ministry added. The sentence was carried out in Guangzhou the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry reaffirmed France\u2019s opposition to the death penalty \u201ceverywhere and in all circumstances\u201d and called for \u201cits universal abolition.\u201d \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS, April 5 \u2014 A Frenchman sentenced to death in China in 2010 for drug trafficking has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2825,68,5,508,2662,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-2886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-chan-thao-phoumy","9":"tag-death-penalty","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-french-authorities","12":"tag-guangzhou","13":"tag-paris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}