Freed Pham Thanh Chech
By Vu Quoc Ngu, September 22, 2015
A citizen in Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau has been released after being detained for 274 days in police station in a drug case, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Tuesday.
Pham Thanh Chech was found not guilty by the People’s Court of the Thoi Binh district last week after the court found no evidence against him.
According to the court’s verdict, police in Thoi Binh district arrested a group of five people who used drugs on Dec. 6, 2014. The arrested gang confessed that they bought drugs from Chech.
Based on their confessions, police arrested Chech and found some drugs in his shrimp temporary house.
During the nine-month interrogation, Chech rejected the accusation and did not confess to selling drugs.
During the trial, the drug users had controversial statements against Chech.
It is unclear whether Check will be compensated for the wrong detention in the past nine months.
Miscarriages of justice are rampant in Vietnam where many basic rights of detained people, such as the right to remain silent and the right to have lawyer during interrogation, have yet to be addressed in current law.
Police torture is systemic and occurs in all localities, including in major cities, according to the recent report of the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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September 22, 2015
Vietnamese Southerner Freed from Pre-trial Detention after Nine Months
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Freed Pham Thanh Chech
By Vu Quoc Ngu, September 22, 2015
A citizen in Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau has been released after being detained for 274 days in police station in a drug case, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Tuesday.
Pham Thanh Chech was found not guilty by the People’s Court of the Thoi Binh district last week after the court found no evidence against him.
According to the court’s verdict, police in Thoi Binh district arrested a group of five people who used drugs on Dec. 6, 2014. The arrested gang confessed that they bought drugs from Chech.
Based on their confessions, police arrested Chech and found some drugs in his shrimp temporary house.
During the nine-month interrogation, Chech rejected the accusation and did not confess to selling drugs.
During the trial, the drug users had controversial statements against Chech.
It is unclear whether Check will be compensated for the wrong detention in the past nine months.
Miscarriages of justice are rampant in Vietnam where many basic rights of detained people, such as the right to remain silent and the right to have lawyer during interrogation, have yet to be addressed in current law.
Police torture is systemic and occurs in all localities, including in major cities, according to the recent report of the New York-based Human Rights Watch.