Murder of Lê Hoàng Hùng
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Lê Hoàng Hùng (1960 – 29 January 2011), a Vietnamese investigative journalist, worked for Người Lao Động (The Worker)[1] in Tân An, Vietnam, where he covered corruption and crime.[2] He was burned to death by his wife.[3]
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Date | 29 January 2011 (2011-01-29) |
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Location | Tân An, Long An Province, Vietnam |
Participants | Tran Thi Lieu (wife) |
Outcome | Death of victim |
Deaths | Lê Hoàng Hung |
Suspects | Tran Thi Lieu |
Charges | Murder |
Initially, because of his high-profile reporting and the original story told by Hung's wife about his death, police and organizations concerned with press safety believed Hung had been killed in revenge for stories he had recently published. While his wife Tran Thi Thuy Lieu originally claimed "a stranger broke into their house" and burned her husband, she later recanted and admitted guilt.[4][5]
The last journalist to have been killed in Vietnam for his journalism was Duong Hung Cuong in 1988.[6] When the Committee to Protect Journalists listed Hung as a "motive confirmed" case after his death, this would have made Hung the first journalist who would have been killed as a result of reporting in Vietnam in 23 years, except it was learned later that he was killed by his wife for a non-reporting motive.[7]