Trial of Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong Nam to continue - GulfToday

Trial of Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong Nam to continue

  • 14 Mar 2019
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Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who was a suspect in the murder case of North Korean leader's half brother Kim Jong Nam, is escorted as she arrives at the Shah Alam High Court on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, 2019. Lai Seng Sin/ Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR: A Vietnamese woman will continue her trial for the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, after Malaysian prosecutors rejected a request from Vietnam to free her on Thursday.

The Vietnamese government had made the call after Doan Thi Huong's co-accused, Indonesian woman Siti Aisyah, was released on Monday.

Huong and Siti Aisyah were charged with killing Kim by smearing his face with VX poison, a banned chemical weapon, at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017.

Reuters

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