Gordon Vuong
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Gordon Vuong (born 1989) is an Australian teenager currently serving a 13 year sentence in Cambodia for attempting to smuggle 2.1kg of heroin which was concealed on his body from Phnom Penh airport to Australia.
He was arrested at the airport on January 22, 2005 and sentenced in May 2005. Two other men, Cambodian-Australian Yen Karat, 26, and Cambodian national Ek Sam Oeun, 47, were arrested at the same time and have been charged with helping to conceal the drugs on Vuong's body. They are still in jail awaiting trial.
Vuong is currently detained in Cambodia's Prey Sar prison, which is about 20km from Phnom Penh. He claims he was blackmailed by the older men who threatened his family and took his passport.
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- Online Petition - Help Gordon Vuong serve his sentence in Australia
- SMH: Australian teen jailed for 13 years over heroin
- The Bulletin - The schoolboy
- Cambodia Morning - Drug sentence decried
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