By Vu Quoc Ngu | Aug 4, 2015
A resident in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi died in a local police detention facility on the third day of being arrested on an allegation of conducting activities against on-duty state officials, state media reported Tuesday.
Nguyen Quang Truong, 43, from Du Nghe in Quoc Oai district, was arrested on July 31 in a land seizure case. He was charged and placed in the detention facility of the district police for investigation.
On Aug 3, the district police informed his family about his death without specifying the death reasons. Currently, his body is preserved in the district general hospital.
The family is suspecting that his death was caused by police torture so it has asked the army’s medical agency to make autopsy.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hue, the daughter of the victim, said her father went to a scene when Quoc Oai district’s authorities came to evict his relative family out of its land. Without making noise, he was accused of conducting activities against on-duty state officials, and arrested by policemen, she said.
The leadership of Hanoi City’s police department said they will launch an investigation to clarify the true reasons of Mr. Truong’s death.
Meanwhile, police in Chau Pha commune, Tan Thanh district, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province said Nguyen Vu Hao, who was invited to the communal police station to work on allegation of stealing property, self-stabbed into his heart with a knife in a toilet of the police facility. Hoa was brought to the city’s general hospital and saved on time.
Mr. Truong has been the second resident in Hanoi died in police detention facilities within two weeks, and the third person in the capital city so far this year.
He has become the 8th Vietnamese dying in police stations due to unclear reasons in the year to date.
Vietnam adopted the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment last year. However, torture and inhumane treatment is still rampant in the one-party country.
According to the government report, 226 detainees and arrested died in police stations and prisons in the past four years. Police said most of their deaths were caused by suicides and illness, however, their families believe that torture and bad treatment are main causes of their deaths.
Few police officers have been disciplined for committing torture, the Ministry of Public Security said.
Vietnamese detained for criminal accusation have yet to have right to remain silent. Many legislators have proposed allowing detainees to have access to lawyers immediately after being arrested as well as install video and audio machinery in interrogation in police station.
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August 4, 2015
Hanoi Resident Dies on Third Day in Police Detention
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
On Aug 3, the district police informed his family about his death without specifying the death reasons. Currently, his body is preserved in the district general hospital.
The family is suspecting that his death was caused by police torture so it has asked the army’s medical agency to make autopsy.
By Vu Quoc Ngu | Aug 4, 2015
A resident in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi died in a local police detention facility on the third day of being arrested on an allegation of conducting activities against on-duty state officials, state media reported Tuesday.
Nguyen Quang Truong, 43, from Du Nghe in Quoc Oai district, was arrested on July 31 in a land seizure case. He was charged and placed in the detention facility of the district police for investigation.
On Aug 3, the district police informed his family about his death without specifying the death reasons. Currently, his body is preserved in the district general hospital.
The family is suspecting that his death was caused by police torture so it has asked the army’s medical agency to make autopsy.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hue, the daughter of the victim, said her father went to a scene when Quoc Oai district’s authorities came to evict his relative family out of its land. Without making noise, he was accused of conducting activities against on-duty state officials, and arrested by policemen, she said.
The leadership of Hanoi City’s police department said they will launch an investigation to clarify the true reasons of Mr. Truong’s death.
Meanwhile, police in Chau Pha commune, Tan Thanh district, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province said Nguyen Vu Hao, who was invited to the communal police station to work on allegation of stealing property, self-stabbed into his heart with a knife in a toilet of the police facility. Hoa was brought to the city’s general hospital and saved on time.
Mr. Truong has been the second resident in Hanoi died in police detention facilities within two weeks, and the third person in the capital city so far this year.
He has become the 8th Vietnamese dying in police stations due to unclear reasons in the year to date.
Vietnam adopted the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment last year. However, torture and inhumane treatment is still rampant in the one-party country.
According to the government report, 226 detainees and arrested died in police stations and prisons in the past four years. Police said most of their deaths were caused by suicides and illness, however, their families believe that torture and bad treatment are main causes of their deaths.
Few police officers have been disciplined for committing torture, the Ministry of Public Security said.
Vietnamese detained for criminal accusation have yet to have right to remain silent. Many legislators have proposed allowing detainees to have access to lawyers immediately after being arrested as well as install video and audio machinery in interrogation in police station.