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The listing below of highlanders currently imprisoned or
detained in Vietnam for peaceful expression of their religious or political
beliefs, or for attempting to flee to Cambodia, should not be considered to be
exhaustive. Vietnam does not allow access to its prisons by independent
monitors, nor does it generally publish the names, locations, and charges
against people in detention. This listing is derived from investigations by
Human Rights Watch, from official Vietnamese sources as reported in the state
media, and from other sources that provided sufficient information to indicate
a high probability that the persons have been imprisoned. The charges, when
known, are all derived from official Vietnamese state media accounts.130
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[130] Errors
in listings of prisoners in Vietnam are difficult to avoid because the
Vietnamese government does not make public the names of people who have been
detained, convicted or sentenced; their places of detention; or the charges
against them.
