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Executed by Vietnam, April 24, 2000
Toronto Resident Nguyen Thi Hiep
Nguyen Thi Hiep
VIETNAM EXECUTES INNOCENT CANADIAN WOMAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM !
Nguyen Thi Hiep was executed on Monday (April 24, 2000)
despite her repeated protestations of innocence and the
Canadian government's appeals for clemency . . .
News Of The Execution Outrages Canada !
Click above for news article on the incident
| April, 1996: Ms. Nguyen and her mother are arrested for smuggling 5½ kilograms of heroin through a Hanoi airport. Half a world away, another Vietnamese-Canadian seamstress is caught with similar drug-filled artwork at Toronto's Pearson Airport. |
| March, 1997: Ms. Nguyen is sentenced to death. |
| August, 1997: Ms. Nguyen's appeal fails. |
| June, 1999: Having concluded that the woman in the Pearson bust was duped, police successfully carry out a sting operation and arrest Phu Hoa, 44, of Mississauga, who is later sentenced to 14 years. Two associates get lesser sentences. The detectives contact the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted about Ms. Nguyen's case. |
| September, 1999: The association and two Toronto Police officers meet the Vietnamese ambassador. Six days later, Ms. Nguyen's husband visits her in jail. Visits by her sons follow. |
| December, 1999: Former boxer and convict Rubin (Hurricane) Carter meets U.S. President Bill Clinton in the White House for a screening of the film The Hurricane. The men discuss Ms. Nguyen's case. |
| January: Ms. Nguyen is granted a temporary stay of execution. Canadians relax their efforts, hoping a meeting with Toronto Police detectives will exonerate Ms. Nguyen. The meeting never occurs. |
| April 24: Ms. Nguyen is executed without warning, tied to a pole. She proclaims her innocence moments before she dies. |
| April 27: Canada's Foreign Minister places all diplomatic relations with Vietnam under review. Her family pleas for the return of her body and the freeing of her mother from jail. |
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