Torture of Political Prisoners Continues in Vietnam

Despite signing onto UN protocols prohibiting it, Vietnam persists in persecution

By: Kaylee Uland

There is strong evidence that Vietnam continues to torture some of the country’s growing population of political prisoners despite signing up in 2013 to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT). 

The 88 Project, a US-based non-profit organization that monitors the…