Executed by Vietnam, April 24, 2000 !
Toronto Resident Nguyen Thi Hiep                                                                                  Below Left, on trial with her mother
Nguyen Thi Hiep 
VIETNAM EXECUTES INNOCENT CANADIAN WOMAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING !
  CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PULLS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM !
     News Of The Execution Outrages Canada !
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        Nguyen Thi Hiep was executed on Monday (April 24, 2000)
          despite her repeated protestations of innocence and the
                Canadian government's appeals for clemency . . .
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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    News Of The Execution Outrages Canada !
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                            Wearing ceremonial bandanas her sons Trung Le, and Tu Le honor her memory

                               You can still help the family !

PLEASE SUPPORT THE TRUST FUND TO HELP THE LE FAMILY RETURN TO VIETNAM TO CLAIM HER BODY AND TAKE HER HOME.

Cheques to be made out to law firm of:

Ruby & Edward In Trust.
11 Prince Arthur Avenue
Toronto ON
M5R 1B2

For more information, contact :

ASSOCIATION IN DEFENSE OF THE WRONGLY CONVICTED :  416-531-8019

ATTORNEY MARLYS EDWARD :  416-964-9664


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