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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Amianthus on October 12, 2006, 10:00:18 AM
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Oct 12, 8:19 AM (ET)
HANOI (Reuters) - A death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper quoted a police doctor as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted heroin trafficker Nguyen Thi Oanh, 39, was then 11 weeks pregnant.
The report said it was the first time that a death-row prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that police were investigating how it had happened.
Oanh's husband was serving a jail sentence at another prison in another province, the newspaper said.
Oanh was due to face a firing squad this year after losing her appeal against the death sentence she received last year for possession of a billion dong ($63,000) worth of heroin.
Trafficking more than 600 grams of heroin in Vietnam is punishable by death or life imprisonment.
Article (http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061012/2006-10-12T121951Z_01_HAN81349_RTRIDST_0_ODD-VIETNAM-PREGNANCY-DC.html)
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Duh,,,,can we spell P R I S O N G U A R D?