03.04.2012
Nearly 100 inmates in a Vietnamese drug rehabilitation center overpowered security guards and escaped.
Tuoi Tre newspaper says 96 inmates overpowered security guards to break through the center’s gate in northern port city of Hai Phong. The paper says the escape started when several inmates called on others to flee after dinner on Sunday.
Tuesday’s news report said 10 inmates have returned to the center and local police and the families of those who are still at large were informed to encourage them to return.
Last year, New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a 126-page report urging Vietnam to shut down drug rehabilitation centers that it said subject inmates to abuse and forced labor, a charge Vietnam denied.
The government says there are 140,000 addicts in Vietnam.
Tuoi Tre newspaper says 96 inmates overpowered security guards to break through the center’s gate in northern port city of Hai Phong. The paper says the escape started when several inmates called on others to flee after dinner on Sunday.
Tuesday’s news report said 10 inmates have returned to the center and local police and the families of those who are still at large were informed to encourage them to return.
Last year, New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a 126-page report urging Vietnam to shut down drug rehabilitation centers that it said subject inmates to abuse and forced labor, a charge Vietnam denied.
The government says there are 140,000 addicts in Vietnam.
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