Human Rights Watch
Vietnamese land-rights activist Can Thi Theu is being held in solitary confinement under harsh jail conditions following her sentencing to eight years in prison for criticizing the government over its handling of a deadly land-rights clash, her daughter said Friday.
Trinh Thi Thao, Theu’s daughter, told RFA’s Vietnamese Service that her mother is currently in a prison in the seat of northern Vietnam’s Hoa Binh province, where she has been placed in a cell on her own in the heat of the country’s tropical summer after being jailed for political reasons.
“I just got a message that my mother is in solitary confinement, meaning that she is alone in a cell,” Thao said, adding that she had received the information about her mother from a source whose family member is in the same prison as Theu.
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