Vietnam 2003
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Vietnam in 2003
- OCTOBER 23, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern...
Four drug traffickers were executed in Vietnam's northern province of Thanh Hoa
- OCTOBER 17, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed in Vietnam for murder as part...
Three men were executed in Vietnam for murder as part of the government's ongoing crackdown against violent crime
- OCTOBER 14, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Dung was sentenced to death by the People's...
Nguyen Van Dung was sentenced to death by the People's Court in Haiphong for murdering two children on June 3, 2003 while looting their house in northern Vietnam
- OCTOBER 10, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed...
Tong Thanh Thao, 28, and Pham Nhat Tri, 32, were executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, on the Thu Duc killing fields, for beating to death another prisoner in October 1995
- OCTOBER 7, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province,...
Lo Van Tuoi, a 39 year old man from Lai Chau province, Vietnam, was sentenced to death for trafficking heroin from Laos and China
- OCTOBER 6, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences...
Seven prisoners on death row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by President Tran Duc Luong
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dinh Son Hai, a 22 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced...
Dinh Son Hai, a 22 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced to death after being convicted by a court in southern Binh Duong province of murdering his friend Ho Viet Quoc in December 2002, in order to steal his motorcycle and jewellery
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai...
A court in Vietnam's southern province of Dong Nai handed down the death penalty to Dinh Quang Tuan for stabbing and beating to death his neighbour, Kieu Thi Phung, in June 2003, while trying to rob her motorbike and jewellery
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Chau Thanh Tam was sentenced to death by a court in...
Chau Thanh Tam was sentenced to death by a court in the southern province of Dong Thap for killing Nguyen Thi Hong, mother of his lover, in February 2003 after she turned down their marriage proposal
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Mai Viet Phong, a 43 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced...
Mai Viet Phong, a 43 year old Vietnamese man, was sentenced to death by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court after being convicted of organising and carrying out five armed robberies, which severely wounded five people, between February and April 2001
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ho Van Nong, a 19-year-old Vietnamese farmer, was sentenced...
Ho Van Nong, a 19-year-old Vietnamese farmer, was sentenced to death by firing squad by a court in the central province of Quang Tri after being convicted of raping and murdering a woman to steal her money
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnamese public security vice minister Le The Tiem...
Vietnamese public security vice minister Le The Tiem was reported as saying that the death penalty was an effective method of preventing drugs production and trafficking and that the country would continue to use the punishment for those crimes
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thi Yen, a 41 year old woman convicted of drug...
Nguyen Thi Yen, a 41 year old woman convicted of drug trafficking, was sentenced to death in northern Vietnam
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ho Chi Minh City Court announced that the head...
The Ho Chi Minh City Court announced that the head of one of the biggest smuggling rings to be found in Vietnam, Do Thi My Phuong, a 45 year old woman, received a Presidential commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Kim Tuyen, who was convicted of drug trafficking,...
Tran Kim Tuyen, who was convicted of drug trafficking, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam's Tay Ninh province
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced four...
The People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced four drug traffickers to death as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Lien Khui Thin and Nguyen Tuan Phuc, respectively former...
Lien Khui Thin and Nguyen Tuan Phuc, respectively former director and chairman of executive board of Epco company, had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, court officials said
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thanh Vu, 27, was sentenced to death by the...
Nguyen Thanh Vu, 27, was sentenced to death by the provincial people's court in the southern Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, Vietnam, after being found guilty of murdering and raping a seven-year-old girl
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An appeal court in Vietnam commuted the death sentence...
An appeal court in Vietnam commuted the death sentence handed down on Nguyen Ton Van, a local businessman found guilty of fraud, to life-imprisonment, state media said
- AUGUST 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's southern Long An province sentenced...
A court in Vietnam's southern Long An province sentenced four men and a woman to death for running a drug-trafficking network that smuggled heroin and opium into the country from Cambodia
- AUGUST 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thanh Vu, a 27 year old man convicted of raping...
Nguyen Thanh Vu, a 27 year old man convicted of raping and murdering a seven year old girl in southern Vietnam, was sentenced to death by the provincial People's Court in the southern Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang
- AUGUST 22, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung...
Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung Lam and Vu Thi Tien, a woman, were sentenced to death by the Ha Tinh People's Court for running a drug-trafficking network that smuggled heroin and opium into the country from Laos
- AUGUST 20, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of...
Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of the Dong Nai Company, a water bottling operation, was given the death penalty by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court
- AUGUST 12, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Two women, Hoang Tu Lien, 43, and Tran Thi My Ha, 30,...
Two women, Hoang Tu Lien, 43, and Tran Thi My Ha, 30, were sentenced to death at the end of a four-day trial in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam
- AUGUST 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ha Thu Thuy, a 35-year-old woman, was sentenced to...
Ha Thu Thuy, a 35-year-old woman, was sentenced to death in Vietnam's southern province of Kien Giang
- JULY 23, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Forty-nine people on death row in Vietnam's southern...
Forty-nine people on death row in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City were expected to be executed soon, after their appeals for presidential clemency had been rejected, state media said
- JULY 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dinh Huu Huy, 26, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam...
Dinh Huu Huy, 26, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted of in 2002 of murdering a motorcycle taxi driver in order to steal his vehicle, state media said
- JULY 15, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ho Van Xuan, 46, a man jailed in 1979 for belonging...
Ho Van Xuan, 46, a man jailed in 1979 for belonging to a former South Vietnamese "reactionary organization", was sentenced to death in Vietnam for scalping his brother-in-law
- JULY 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tang Minh Phung, 47, a businessman, and 60-year-old...
Tang Minh Phung, 47, a businessman, and 60-year-old banker Pham Nhat Hong were shot dead by firing squad in southern Ho Chi Minh City after their appeals for clemency were rejected by President Tran Duc Luong in May 2003
- JULY 9, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four people on death-row in Vietnam, including Le My...
Four people on death-row in Vietnam, including Le My Linh, an Australian citizen of Vietnamese origin, had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment