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HANOI (Reuters) - A death-row inmate held in solitary
confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant
and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper
reported on Thursday.

The Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper quoted a police doctor
as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted
heroin trafficker Nguyen Thi Oanh, 39, was then 11
weeks pregnant.

The report said it was the first time that a death-row
prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that
police were investigating how it had happened.

Oanh's husband was serving a jail sentence at another
prison in another province, the newspaper said.

Oanh was due to face a firing squad this year after
losing her appeal against the death sentence she
received last year for possession of a billion dong
($63,000) worth of heroin.

Trafficking more than 600 grams of heroin in Vietnam
is punishable by death or life imprisonment.

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Wow. This could put a whole new spin on the abortion debate. The fetus is innocent, it should be killed for the mother's sins.

I have a feeling they'll fire the guard (the likely father) & allow her to give birth.

I presume it happend the way it happens to other women.

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a billion dong? Wow!

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