Weeks later Antivar learned her husband had been detained for trafficking drugs, a desperate act she believes he committed in order to stop the bank from seizing their home. Most of the relatives of accused Colombian drug mules in China are too poor to make the 17,000 kilometer (10,500 mile) journey to see them or send money. The number of Colombians in Chinese jails climbed from just a handful in 2006 to 146 this year, according to the Colombian government. China is the world’s top executioner, although most foreigners it has executed for drug trafficking have been from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, according to a Chinese state media report in 2015. China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, and its judicial authorities have been cracking down recently on drug trafficking.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 05:03 UTC