Strange pregnancy
Oct 18, 2006
Two prison guards have been detained after a death-row inmate held in solitary confinement was found pregnant.
VIETNAM
Two prison guards have been detained after a death-row inmate held in solitary confinement was found pregnant.
Police investigators said the father of the unborn child was an inmate who delivered food to death-row prisoners. The guards have been expelled from the police force and detained for ‘abusing power’ because they let the food deliveryman stay with the inmate in the death-row section of the jail.
The convicted heroin trafficker, Nguyen Thi Oanh, 39, was 11 weeks pregnant, while her husband was serving a jail sentence at another prison in another province. Under Vietnamese law, death sentences for pregnant women must be commuted to life in prison.
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 one billion dong (sh116.6m) worth of heroin.
Two prison guards have been detained after a death-row inmate held in solitary confinement was found pregnant.
Police investigators said the father of the unborn child was an inmate who delivered food to death-row prisoners. The guards have been expelled from the police force and detained for ‘abusing power’ because they let the food deliveryman stay with the inmate in the death-row section of the jail.
The convicted heroin trafficker, Nguyen Thi Oanh, 39, was 11 weeks pregnant, while her husband was serving a jail sentence at another prison in another province. Under Vietnamese law, death sentences for pregnant women must be commuted to life in prison.
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 one billion dong (sh116.6m) worth of heroin.