After escaping prison, three inmates strangled a rideshare driver with a rope and held her captive for 10 hours, repeatedly threatening rape, torture, and death if she resisted.
A 15-year-old girl, kidnapped at knifepoint on a street on Christmas Day, was quickly found by her quick-thinking father who tracked her phone's location.
Zhao Xin, a Chinese national, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for conspiring with accomplices to kidnap a fellow Chinese businessman and demand a 4,5 billion VND ransom.
