Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh made that statement in reply to a question on Viet Nam’s response to Indonesia's execution of death penalty to Vietnamese national Tran Thi Bich Hanh for drugs smuggling.
Since Ms. Hanh was arrested in June 2011, functional agencies and the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia have exchanged and worked with the Indonesian side to guarantee rights for the Vietnamese citizen based on the laws and consider commuting the sentence.
Vietnamese functional agencies have launched necessary protection measures for this case, confirmed the Spokesman.
Tran Thi Bich Hanh was executed in Boyolali district in central Java, while five others were put to death on Nusakambangan Island, home to a high-security prison, off the south coast of the archipelago’s main island of Java.
They included an Indonesian woman, along with 53-year-old Brazilian Moreira, a 62-year-old Dutchman, a Nigerian, and one from Malawi, were also executed. They were all caught attempting to smuggle drugs, apart from the Dutchman, who was sentenced to death for operating a huge factory producing ecstasy.
