Vietnam's Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh calls his Malaysian counterpart asking Doan Thi Huong to be released after Indonesian woman suspect was freed.
HANOI: Vietnam today asked Malaysia to free the Vietnamese woman charged with assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Kuala Lumpur, a day after her Indonesian co-accused was suddenly released, AFP reported.
Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh called his Malaysian counterpart today asking Huong to be released as well, according to state media. The call from Vietnam’s foreign minister was an unprecedented public request from Hanoi, which generally does not get involved in criminal cases involving its citizens overseas.
The women’s lawyers say the real killers are four North Koreans — formally accused of the crime alongside the women — who fled Malaysia shortly after the assassination. “This is the third letter but the first to Thomas to withdraw the charge against Huong on the principle of fairness,” Salim told FMT.
“We have lined up four to five defence witnesses should there be no favourable reply from the AG,” he said.
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