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5 - Mounting the Defense

Ho Chi Minh’s Prison Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2021

Geoffrey C. Gunn
Geoffrey C. Gunn
Affiliation:
Nagasaki University
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This chapter deals with the aftermath of Ho Chi Minh's arrest and incarceration in Victoria Prison (along with that of a female comrade Ly Sam/Co Thuan). It draws upon a trove of documentation, both personal and political, that was seized from Ho Chi Minh's Kowloon City premises. These documents were lost to British record keepers but survive in French and Russian archives and are here offered for the first time in print. The chapter examines Ho Chi Minh's household budget notebooks to reveal the names of tenants and their activities. It also introduces the crucial support rendered by local lawyer Francis Loseby in mounting the Sung Man Cho/ Ly Sam defense in Hong Kong's Supreme Court. Besides offering detail on Ho Chi Minh's prison experience, this chapter also introduces rare documentation in the form of letters written from prison to the French double agent, including his own medical and mental condition, among other key intelligence details reaching French ears.

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ArrestIncarcerationLegal SupportEvidenceHousehold BudgetCo-ResidentsNetworks
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Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law
 , pp. 126 - 150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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