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Australian Van Kham Chau subject to ‘hard labour’ in Vietnamese prison, former inmate says
Australian citizen Van Kham Chau has been subjected to “long hours of hard labour” in a Vietnamese prison, according to a former fellow prison inmate.
Key points:
- Van Kham Chau is serving a 12-year jail sentence on terrorism-related charges
- He was detained in January 2019 and has not been able to speak to his direct family since
- A former inmate has urged Canberra to escalate Chau’s plight with Hanoi
The revelation comes on the two-year anniversary of Chau’s imprisonment.
The 71-year-old retired baker was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of terrorist activities in November 2019, a jail term that Human Rights Watch has likened to a “death sentence”.
He is a member of the Viet Tan, a group that aims to promote…
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