The son of
actor Jackie Chan has been sentenced to six months in jail after
pleading guilty in a Beijing court to providing a venue for drug users.
Police
seized more than 100 grams of marijuana during an August raid at Jaycee
Chan's Beijing home. Both Chan and Taiwanese movie star Ko Kai tested
positive for the drug, it was reported.
His
imprisonment comes amid a major crackdown on illegal drugs in China,
and is particularly embarrassing for his movie star father, who in 2009
was named an anti-drug ambassador.
Jackie Chan's son Jaycee was sentenced
to six months in jail after pleading guilty to providing a venue for
drug users. Here he is pictured being led into a Beijing court
A police car transports the 32-year-old from the court house following his sentencing
The main entrance of Beijing Dongcheng
People's Court was guarded by a policeman today as crowds gathered to
catch a glimpse of the movie star's son
Chan
also was ordered to pay 2,000 yuan, or about £210, the Dongcheng
District People's Court in Beijing said on its microblog account.
'I violated
the law. I deserve to be punished. When I return to society, I won't do
it again,' Chan said in courtroom footage aired on state broadcaster
China Central Television (CCTV).
Last summer, police arrested more than 7,800 people in Beijing over illegal drug use.
Actor Jackie Chan (left) pictured with Jaycee at the Double Trouble premiere in Beijing, in 2012
Other celebrities, including actor Gao Hu, were also detained in what was described as the biggest crackdown in two decades.
Illegal
drug use has ballooned in China in recent decades, after being
virtually eradicated following the 1949 communist revolution.
Official News Agency Xinhua said the maximum sentence for the charge against Chan was three years in prison.
The
trial and sentence were especially sensitive for Jackie Chan, who was
named an anti-drug ambassador in 2009, and sits on China's top national
political advisory panel — the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference.
The
actor has told Xinhua that he did not use his connections to interfere
with the case and that he hopes his singer-actor son will eventually
become an anti-drug ambassador.
CCTV
had aired video of the police raid on Jaycee Chan's apartment, in which
Chan was shown identifying marijuana in his possession. Ko testified on
camera that he had used drugs at Chan's home.
CCTV also said Chan told police that he has been using drugs for eight years.
Ko, whose real name is Ko Chen-tung, has been released after a 14-day administrative detention for drug use.
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