The protest was organised by a Londonderry mother whose 21-year-old daughter died with drugs in her system.
A protest has been held outside Bishop Street Courthouse in Londonderry asking for longer sentences to be handed down to convicted drug dealers.
In a statement, the Department of Justice has said that sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the independent judiciary.Jasmin Duddy was just 21 when she was found unresponsive at a house in the Galliagh area of Derry "Sentencing judges must consider all the evidence presented in the case as well as any relevant sentencing guidance and the sentences given in similar cases before reaching their decisions," they said.
"At the minute it is 14 years to life for supplying Class A, Class B and C drugs," she told BBC News NI.Pauline Duddy's daughter Jasmine died with the drug pregabalin in her system when she was just 21 years old
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