NGÔ Thanh Kiều

Status:

Died in police station

Nature:

Accusing of burglary of properties

Date:

Arrest 3:15AM on 13/5/2012, died around 2:00PM on the same day by brain damaged due to beating with 72 injured spots, in which 12 on the head and internal organs broken. The beating using police club was lasting from 8:00AM to 2:00PM.

Victim and Residence:

Born 1982

Hòa Đồng village

Tây Hòa district

Phú Yên province

Victim's Relatives:

TRẦN Thị Tâm, wife

Children, parents, sister

Location of Police Beaten Crime:

Police Station of Tuy Hòa city

Phú Yên province

Policemen causing Kiều's death:

LÊ Đức Hoàn (52, Deputy, Colonel)

NGUYỄN Thân Thảo Thành (31, 2nd Lieut.)

NGUYỄN Minh Quyền (43, Major)

PHẠM Ngọc Mẫn (35, Captain)

NGUYỄN Tấn Quang (40, Major)

ĐỖ Như Huy (30, Lieutenant) 

Policemen presents at the crime:

LÊ Hải Phú

HÀ Văn Đại

NGUYỄN Khải Hoàn

Citizens present in police station:

NGÔ Minh Tự

TRỊNH Công Minh

Attorneys:

VÕ An Đôn: Phú Yên Association of Lawyers, for Mrs TRẦN Thị Tâm, wife of victim NGÔ Thanh Kiều

NGUYỄN Văn Thắng: Hanoi Association of Lawyers, for suspect NGUYỄN Thân Thảo Thành

Court Trials:

April 7, 2015: retrying (2nd time) by the primary court of Tuy Hòa city.

Court's Judgment on April 15, 2015:

NGUYỄN Thân Thảo Thành: 8 years

NGUYỄN Minh Quyền: 30 months

PHẠM Ngọc Mẫn: 27 months

NGUYỄN Tấn Quang: 24 months

ĐỖ Như Huy: 12 months, no jail time

LÊ Đức Hoàn: 9 months, no jail time

Right after the announcement, family members were crying out loud, the scene became chaos due to the very lenient sentences.

According to the family's lawyer, Attorney VÕ An Đôn, this is a police killing and illegal arrest, the court let these wrongdoings slipping away. Besides, the mastermind, Mr Hoàn, got away without jail time. The suspects were expressing joy, but the family's members (parents, sister...) were crying and yelling for injustice.

On April 22, 2015, Ms Tâm appealed to the higher court seeking justice for her husband

Looking back, on July 9, 2014 the appellate court of Phú Yên invalidated the primary court trial and ordered a retrial, after the Vietnam's President TRƯƠNG Tấn Sang requested the People's Supreme Prosecuting Office and the People's Supreme Court to look into it according to the law.

March 26 to April 3, 2014: tried by the primary court of Tuy Hòa city, the court issued very lenient sentences, causing socially loud protest, these are:

NGUYỄN Thân Thảo Thành: 5 years

NGUYỄN Minh Quyền: 2 years

PHẠM Ngọc Mẫn: 18 months

NGUYỄN Tấn Quang: 15 mo., no jail

ĐỖ Như Huy: 12 mo., no jail time

Blogger's Comment:

According to Vietnam's Security Department's Report in Mar 2015: From Jan 10, 2011 to Sept 30, 2014, there are 226 persons died in temporary police transitional cells.

Originated from the brutal force, the regime has designed the police CULTURE of beating at first sign and torture. This culture has to be changed.

In this case, the mastermind of the killing, Mr LÊ Đức Hoàn, got away with the murder.

Links:

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Photos:

From various news agencies and attorney VÕ An Đôn