Murder of Lê Hoàng Hùng
2011 murder in Tân An, Vietnam
Lê Hoàng Hùng (1960 – 29 January 2011), a Vietnamese investigative journalist, worked for Người Lao Động (The Worker) in Tân An, Vietnam, where he covered corruption and crime. He was burned to death by his wife.
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.
The last journalist to have been killed in Vietnam for his journalism was Duong Hung Cuong in 1988. 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.
Death
Lê Hoàng Hung was burned in his bed and taken to the Long An General Hospital in southern Long An, Vietnam. Hung suffered from severe burns on over 20 percent of his body. Because of the severity of his burns, he was transferred to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. He died on January 29, which was ten days after the attack from his burns.
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