By Vu Quoc Ngu | Dec 31, 2014
One more death in police station was reported one month after Vietnam’s National Assembly ratified the UN Convention against Torture.
According to Vietnam’s state media, Tran Van Tung, a suspect of stealing telephone cable in Hoa Khuong commune in Hoa Vang district in Quang Nam province, was found dead in the district police detention facility, 6th day after being detained by local police.
The police said Tung hanged himself to the cell window but his family said he died from different cause since the window is just 60 centimeters above the ground. The family did not exclude torture during interrogation as a cause of the death.
The cell is equipped with a camera but the police said it wasn’t in use.
His body is transferred to the Danang city-based Center for Autopsy for defining the real cause of his death. However, the real cause may not be revealed since the autopsy is not conducted by an independent agency, said observers.
Late last month, Vietnam’s parliament ratified the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment which is expected to halt police torture in the one-party communist nation.
Tung is among over 20 Vietnamese who have been found dead in local police stations across the nation so far this year, heightening concerns about the rampant police torture.
Police power abuse and torture are a systematic problem in Vietnam. In its report titled “Public Insecurity: Deaths in Custody and Police Brutality in Vietnam” released on Sept 16, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlights cases of police brutality that resulted in deaths and serious injuries of people in custody between August 2010 and July 2014.
Accordingly, police torture occurred in 44 provinces and five largest cities out of 63 provinces and cities in the communist nation.
The 96-page report named 28 Vietnamese citizens who died while being detained in police stations, of those, 14 deaths were caused by police violence as authorities admitted, four from unexplained causes, six were allegedly suicides and four allegedly from illness during detention, not included victims of political dissidents, according to the HRW’s statistics during the period.
Vietnam has committed to deal with police torture. Earlier this year, Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang admitted that 19 police officers have been fired for torturing suspects between 2011 and 2013. During the three-year period, 183 others were disciplined for violating investigative procedures and regulations through dismissal, demotion or reassignment.
However, those policemen found guilty in beating suspects to death received light sentences, triggering public concerns that police officers have privileges to escape from capital punishment.
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December 31, 2014
One More Death in Police Station after Vietnam Ratifies Anti-Torture Convention
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Van Tung
One more death in police station was reported one month after Vietnam’s National Assembly ratified the UN Convention against Torture.
According to Vietnam’s state media, Tran Van Tung, a suspect of stealing telephone cable in Hoa Khuong commune in Hoa Vang district in Quang Nam province, was found dead in the district police detention facility, 6th day after being detained by local police.
By Vu Quoc Ngu | Dec 31, 2014
One more death in police station was reported one month after Vietnam’s National Assembly ratified the UN Convention against Torture.
According to Vietnam’s state media, Tran Van Tung, a suspect of stealing telephone cable in Hoa Khuong commune in Hoa Vang district in Quang Nam province, was found dead in the district police detention facility, 6th day after being detained by local police.
The police said Tung hanged himself to the cell window but his family said he died from different cause since the window is just 60 centimeters above the ground. The family did not exclude torture during interrogation as a cause of the death.
The cell is equipped with a camera but the police said it wasn’t in use.
His body is transferred to the Danang city-based Center for Autopsy for defining the real cause of his death. However, the real cause may not be revealed since the autopsy is not conducted by an independent agency, said observers.
Late last month, Vietnam’s parliament ratified the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment which is expected to halt police torture in the one-party communist nation.
Tung is among over 20 Vietnamese who have been found dead in local police stations across the nation so far this year, heightening concerns about the rampant police torture.
Police power abuse and torture are a systematic problem in Vietnam. In its report titled “Public Insecurity: Deaths in Custody and Police Brutality in Vietnam” released on Sept 16, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlights cases of police brutality that resulted in deaths and serious injuries of people in custody between August 2010 and July 2014.
Accordingly, police torture occurred in 44 provinces and five largest cities out of 63 provinces and cities in the communist nation.
The 96-page report named 28 Vietnamese citizens who died while being detained in police stations, of those, 14 deaths were caused by police violence as authorities admitted, four from unexplained causes, six were allegedly suicides and four allegedly from illness during detention, not included victims of political dissidents, according to the HRW’s statistics during the period.
Vietnam has committed to deal with police torture. Earlier this year, Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang admitted that 19 police officers have been fired for torturing suspects between 2011 and 2013. During the three-year period, 183 others were disciplined for violating investigative procedures and regulations through dismissal, demotion or reassignment.
However, those policemen found guilty in beating suspects to death received light sentences, triggering public concerns that police officers have privileges to escape from capital punishment.