Trần Thị Lý (née Trần Thị Nhâm, 30 December 1933 in Điện Quang, Điện Bàn District, Quảng Nam – 20 November 1992 in

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) was a Vietnamese communist party member, who was imprisoned and tortured in Saigon. She is the granddaughter of

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. The Nguyễn Văn Trỗi – Trần Thị Lý Bridge is named after her and a fellow revolutionary,

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. Since 1956, Lý worked as a

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for the

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but the same year, she was arrested on her commute to work by the

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ese. After being tortured for 2 years and being left for dead by her captors, she was flown to the Vietnam – Soviet Friendship Hospital in

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, weighing just , having 42 wounds across her body, with cut nipples and bleeding genitals. In 1992 she was awarded the

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medal and died shortly after. She left behind her adopted daughter Thùy Linh and her husband Tuấn.

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