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Death-Row Prisoner Gets
Pregnant in Solitary Reuters
HANOI (Oct. 12) - 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
(or $63,000) worth of heroin.
Trafficking more than 600 grams of heroin in Vietnam
is punishable by death or life imprisonment.
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