Husband of woman executed in Vietnam wants new investigation
The husband of a woman executed in Vietnam last year for heroin
smuggling is reportedly calling on Canadian authorities to investigate a
man who may have played a role in the case.
Tran Hieu has told the Toronto Star newspaper through an interpreter, a
new investigation is needed to clear his wife's name and find out the
truth.
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a 43-year-old Toronto woman, was executed in April
2000 by a Vietnamese firing squad despite Ottawa's insistence that
evidence against her was weak.
The woman's mother, Tran Thi Cam, now 75, who also was charged with
heroin smuggling, was released from a Vietnamese prison and returned
to Canada in September 2000.
The Toronto Star reported that a man described in Vietnamese court
documents received by Canada's foreign affairs department in 1997
may have been responsible for asking the two women to carry
heroin-packed decorative panels from Hanoi back to a Toronto suburb.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - June 11, 2001.
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