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to prison where he passed away in solitary <br />condition on 11 July 2011, one day after his <br />return there. Worse, his family was not <br />permitted to bring his corpse home for <br />burial. <br />The same fate happened to prisoner of <br />conscience Truong Van Suong after he had <br />been held for nearly 30 years in prison. He <br />had been temporarily allowed to stay home <br />one year for his medical treatment from July <br />2010, then in August 2011, he was ordered <br />to return to his prison in his terminal illness <br />and died 25 days later. <br />Vietnam Human Rights Network * Annual Report 2011 <br />IV. POLICE BRUTALITY IN A <br />POLICE STATE <br />At the end of September 2010, Human <br />Rights Watch reported that police brutality at <br />the hands of the Vietnamese police was <br />substantiated in at least 19 cases, causing 15 <br />deaths, with many victims fatally beaten <br />while being held for interrogation, or dead <br />soon after release, or even dead in public as <br />a result of the police use of unnecessary <br />force (See Human Rights Watch report <br />entitled Vietnam: widespread police <br />brutality; death in custody, published on 22 <br />September 2010) <br />In 2011, the same condition of police <br />brutality continued to haunt the people. <br />Besides daily brutalities causing injuries to <br />innocent people in the cities as well as in the <br />countryside, the following notorious cases <br />have been reported on quite widely on <br />Internet blogs: <br />- On 02 March 2011, police Lt. Col. <br />Nguyen Van Ninh of Thinh Liet <br />quarter, Hoang Mai district, Hanoi, <br />beat Mr. Trinh Xuan Tung, 54, a <br />resident of 252 Tran Khat Chan <br />Street, Hai Ba Trung district, also in <br />Hanoi, and broke two of his cervical <br />bones, causing paralysis to his limbs <br />and blockage to his respiratory <br />system. Instead of getting him help, <br />the police brought him to the police <br />station for further brutality until he <br />fell unconscious; learning of his <br />situation, his family tried to take him <br />to the hospital but was prevented <br />from doing so. It's unthinkable that a <br />citizen would meet his death merely <br />for failing to wear his safety helmet <br />while riding on a public motorcycle- - <br />the reason for which he was stopped <br />by the police. <br />15 <br />