Can Thi Theu, 64, is serving an eight-year prison sentence at Prison No. 5 in Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province because she joined protests against land confiscation and environmental degradation in 2016 and publicly supported other human rights activists and political prisoners languishing behind bars.
During a recent visit, Can Thi Theu’s family learned that she had been suffering from acute abdominal pain and fever for days. They said medical personnel at the prison told her it was nothing and gave her some painkillers. Her daughter, Trinh Thi Thao, filed a petition to allow Can Thi Theu to seek care at a
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