Poison have been found in Vietnamese Prison . Journalist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy has been coughing up blood .
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(Ha Noi - Vietnam) An Exile group, Vietland's underground sources in
Ha Noi reported that the Communist Vietnamese Authorities have been
poisoning Novelist and journalist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy (pen names
Nguyen Thai Hoang and Nguyen Thi Hien) by adding little amount of
poison to her meals in order to gradually kill the human rights
activist instead of bringing her to the court. For several months Thuy
has been coughing up blood.
Aminopterin , a rat poison chemical have been found in her prison meal
lately. According to Doctor Thuy Trang, Aminopterin is illegal to use
as rat poison in the United States but is used as a cancer-fighting
drug, Leukemia, etc. China has been using this substance to produce
rat poison in the form of small colorful balls that look like candies.
In the Northern part of Vietnam, villages near China border, many
Vietnamese children have been killed by eating this poison .
Aminopterin is poisonous, and surely any man who consumes daily amount
of it shall fall ill and die. Information on this poison can be found
in the site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminopterin .
Thuy was among eight Vietnamese writers who received the prestigious
Hellman/Hammett award in February from Human Rights Watch, which
recognizes courage in the face of political persecution. According to
PEN Canada: Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was apparently briefly detained on 2
September 2006 for her Internet writings, followed by three weeks of
daily interrogation sessions. She was again briefly detained on 11
October 2006 and interrogated about the essays 'The Grotto', 'Self-
Narration' and 'Dialogue' written after her detention in September.
She was also reportedly brought to an open 'People's Court', in which
members of the public are forced to participate in the abuse and
humiliation of those accused.
Human Rights Watch and other human rights groups say Vietnam's
Communist authorities are involved in the most severe crackdown in
decades apparently for fear of losing their power base at a time when
people, emboldened by economic reforms, are searching for
alternatives to the Communist ideology.
Tran Khai thanh Thuy was arrested again on April 21, 2007 after a
warrant was obtained accusing her of "violation of Article 88 of the
Penal Code, which makes it criminal to spread propaganda against the
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam". The Vietnamese Security Police said
that Ms. Tran Khai Thanh Thuy is a member of the Bloc 8406, a Pro-
Democratic Movement that recently broadcasted their articles demanding
the Human Rights for the people. Police also accused Ms. Tran of
organizing an independent Labor League and supporting a Human Rights
Committee that consists of many anti-government figures.
Mr. Do Ba Tan, Thuy's husband, reported that his wife was arrested and
hand cuffed at an Internet-Café not far from their house while she was
purchasing medicine to treat her tuberculosis and diabetes. The police
then took her home and read the warrant then thorough searched the
house. Until April 23, 2007, three days after her arrest, the husband
did not know her status and whereabouts. Ms. Tran Khai Thanh Thuy
shouted the anti-communist slogan and protested the anti-
constitutional arrest.
On March, 21, 2007, before the arrest, she was brought to hospital for
her serious tuberculosis. In jail, she has been terrorized and
poisoned. It has been 6 months since then; the authorities jailed her
without due process and trial. At the Hanoi Police interrogation
house, 87 Tran Hung Dao Street- Hanoi, the police tried adding more
crimes to her case. They accused her of receiving the fund from anti-
communist Vietnamese exiles, and cheating on the people whom she had
helped. Hanoi Police has continuously tried many times to force her
to admit more crimes in order to bring her to the court. Ms. Tran is
now believed being detained at 84 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hanoi, a short
distance from the interrogation house, an old prison that was built in
1953. Ms. Tran's health has been deteriorating badly.