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In Vietnam, the prison population total (including pre-trial detainees/ remand prisoners) is 130,002 as of October of 2017 according to the Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators. The prison population rate (per 100,000 of the natural population) is 13. The pre-trial detainees/ prison population is 12.5 percent as of October 2017. The number of establishments/institutions in Vietnam is 53 (3 years ago). In 2005, the Prison population trend was at 88,414 and increased more each year. It reached its highest in 2014, where the numbers decreased by -8,000 people by the time 2016 hits. In 2017, it was reported that the activists fled the country, Vietnam due to the restrictions of freedom of speech rights. They were violating human many of the human rights. Prisoners in Vietnam were not being treated fairly while in custody. It was said that they were torturing them. According to Amnesty.org, there was “suspicious deaths in police custody and the death penalty was retained.” Many people were arrested and prosecuted at an Anti Communist campaign in Vietnam. Many of those people who were arrested were sentenced to the death penalty. There were still reports saying that the prisoners were still not being treated well. They were still getting beatings done to them and other harsh punishments. Amnesty.org stated that “In September, Viet Nam’s initial report on the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture, ratified in November 2014, acknowledged challenges and difficulties in implementation due to an “incomplete legal framework on human rights,” among other reasons.”