Vietnam 2000
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Vietnam in 2000
- DECEMBER 22, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel...
A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Le Van Luen a former senior police officer, to death by firing squad for dealing in heroin, bringing the number of people sentenced to death for drug trafficking in 2000 to at least 49
- DECEMBER 6, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Vietnamese journal An Ninh Thu Do (Police Journal)...
The Vietnamese journal An Ninh Thu Do (Police Journal) reported that during November the police division in charge of drug prevention and control of Hanoi City worked closely with public security units in districts and precincts to successfully handle 150
- NOVEMBER 28, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Nong Thai Nghiep from Thai Nguyen province criticized...
Deputy Nong Thai Nghiep from Thai Nguyen province criticized the judiciary for not carrying out the sentences issued by the courts
- NOVEMBER 27, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi People's Court handed down five death sentences...
The Hanoi People's Court handed down five death sentences and six life imprisonment sentences to 11 defendants for involvement in a drug trafficking ring
- NOVEMBER 25, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in the commercial capital of Ho Chi Minh City...
A court in the commercial capital of Ho Chi Minh City sentenced a US national, also wanted by Belgian police, to death for heroin trafficking, just days after US President Bill Clinton's landmark visit
- NOVEMBER 24, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Bui...
The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Bui Huu Tai , 32, to death for involvement in drug trafficking
- OCTOBER 31, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in northern Quang Ninh province...
The People's Court in northern Quang Ninh province opened a court hearing of the biggest narcotics trafficking case ever in the province
- OCTOBER 23, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ninh Binh People's Court handed down death sentence...
The Ninh Binh People's Court handed down death sentence to three defendants in the second biggest opium trafficking ring in the northern Ninh Binh province since the ring led by Nguyen Ngoc Phu was detected in 1999
- OCTOBER 16, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court sentenced two men to death and another...
A Vietnamese court sentenced two men to death and another to life imprisonment for counterfeiting Vietnamese banknotes
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The five-day appeal court trying Vietnam's biggest...
The five-day appeal court trying Vietnam's biggest drug case in Nam Dinh province reached its verdict
- JULY 26, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The HCMC People's Court sentenced Tran Thi Hieu, 65,...
The HCMC People's Court sentenced Tran Thi Hieu, 65, former director of Ngoc Thao Co
- JULY 20, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Ho Chi Minh City passed a death sentence...
A court in Ho Chi Minh City passed a death sentence on Nguyen Van Son, former deputy general director of the Gia Dinh Commercial Bank, for fraud
- JULY 12, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dang Ngoc Chieu, who was prosecuted for circulating...
Dang Ngoc Chieu, who was prosecuted for circulating fake money in Hai Duong Province was sentenced to death while his two accomplices received life imprisonment
- MAY 3, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam expressed regret over Canada's decision to...
Vietnam expressed regret over Canada's decision to stop contacts with Hanoi at the level of ministries and agencies
- MAY 2, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Canadian government froze all ministerial ties...
The Canadian government froze all ministerial ties with Vietnam to protest against the execution of Canadian citizen Nguyen Thi Hiep on drug smuggling charges on April 24
- APRIL 30, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman said the Vietnamese...
A Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman said the Vietnamese government regretted the reaction from the Canadian government on the execution of Nguyen Thi Hiep
- APRIL 27, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Canada's foreign affairs minister, Lloyd Axworthy,...
Canada's foreign affairs minister, Lloyd Axworthy, said he was shocked and disappointed by Vietnam's decision to execute a Canadian woman
- APRIL 24, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin...
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin was executed in Hanoi, where she was arrested in 1996 for drug trafficking, a court spokesmen said
- APRIL 6, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Vietnam Committee for the Defence of Human Rights...
The Vietnam Committee for the Defence of Human Rights accused Vietnam of handing down "an increasing number of death sentences", reaching the "sad record" of 194 last year
- MARCH 30, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court upheld the lower court's...
The Supreme People's Court upheld the lower court's decision to impose the death sentence on Tang Binh, former director of Kien Giang Import-Export Co
- MARCH 15, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ha Tinh Province Court Order Execution Council...
The Ha Tinh Province Court Order Execution Council carried out the death penalty for Tran Van Truong, 38
- MARCH 14, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi Court Order Execution Council executed death...
The Hanoi Court Order Execution Council executed death row prisoner Dinh Van Mao at the Cau Nga Shooting Ground
- MARCH 13, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence...
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Van Trong said around...
Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Van Trong said around 10,000 to 14,000 prisoners were to be freed in amnesties in 2000
- JANUARY 31, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed...
The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed and adopted a resolution on the enforcement of the revised Criminal Code
- JANUARY 28, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ho Chi Minh City's People's Court sentenced to death...
Ho Chi Minh City's People's Court sentenced to death three narcotics traffickers, Tran Van Nghia, Nguyen Phuoc Duc and Nguyen Thanh Hai
- JANUARY 20, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Van Hung, a senior official from Vietnam's National...
Pham Van Hung, a senior official from Vietnam's National Assembly, told a news conference that Vietnam's amended Penal Code cut by a third the number of crimes that carry the death penalty
- JANUARY 12, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four businessmen had their death sentences upheld by...
Four businessmen had their death sentences upheld by the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme People's Court
- JANUARY 1, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnamese courts handed down 208 death sentences and...
Vietnamese courts handed down 208 death sentences and 323 life sentences in 2000
- JANUARY 1, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
In all, 194 people were sentenced to death last year
In all, 194 people were sentenced to death last year