Actress jailed for prostitution

Fri May 27,11:11 AM ET

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police have sent a singer/actress to "re-education camp" in a widening crackdown on rampant prostitution, just months after she created a scandal with a home-made sex video, state newspapers said on Friday.

Police detained Dinh Thoai Yen Vy and sent her immediately to "re-eduction camp" for sex workers on evidence she was involved in a high-class call girl ring charging $500 to $1,000, they said.

She will spend 18 months with other inmates who work and attend lectures designed to reform their ways, slightly longer than the usual sentence of six months to a year.

Yen Vy made national headlines after her home-made adult video was uploaded to the Internet in March and sold in black markets.

That created a scandal but led to her being offered a role in a film about the love affairs of Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War.

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