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The most famous site in this prison are the "tiger cages" (chuồng cọp). The French tiger cages cover an area of 5.475 m 2, within which each cell occupies 1.408 m 2, solariums occupy 1.873 m 2, and other spaces occupy 2.194 m 2. The prison includes 120 cells. The prison was closed after the end of the Vietnam War and opened for visitors ...
The French imprisoned him in one of the "tiger cage" cells on the prison located on the island of Poulo Condore (modern Côn Sơn Island) in the South China Sea. Poulo Condore was regarded as the harshest prison in all of French Indochina. [5] During his time in the "tiger cage", Thọ suffered from hunger, heat, and humiliation.
[2] [6] Luce used a hand-drawn map to find a secret door to an area where over 500 starving and tortured men and women were shackled in what were known as "tiger cages" under grates in a walkway. [2] The prisoners were neglected, sitting in diarrhea and with sores around their ankles cut by their shackles.
A Vietnamese court on Saturday sentenced an ex-minister to life imprisonment in a multimillion-dollar corruption case that also saw another minister and a dozen executives receive lengthy prison ...
The Committee to Protect Journalists cited media reports as saying that a Hanoi court sentenced Thai to 12 years in prison and three years of probation on Wednesday on charges of anti-state ...
Dozens of tigers and lions in captivity died in the past month in southern Vietnam with tests showing they were positive for bird flu, health ministry and state media said on Thursday. Two samples ...
Côn Sơn Island became infamous during the French colonial era because of Côn Đảo Prison and the notorious "tiger cages". Vietnamese and Cambodian nationalists and revolutionaries were sent here to serve their sentence for anti-French activities. Many Vietnamese Communist leaders were "schooled" on Côn Đảo Island as well.
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