Updated 10 June 2013, 14:33 AEST
A prominent dissident jailed in Vietnam has been on hunger strike for two weeks.
CHHV-Rupert/ABC Radio Australia
Lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu is protesting at what he claims has been his mistreatment at the hands of prison authorities in northern Thanh Hoa province.
His wife Nguyen Thi Duong Ha says she is very concerned for his health.
Mr Ha Vu was arrested in 2010 after filing a lawsuit against the Prime Minister over environmental issues, and his law firm also represented Catholics from Con Dau Parish in Da Nang who were detained during a police crackdown.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison, and a further three years under house arrest, for violating an article of Vietnam’s legal code that forbids the ‘spreading of propaganda’ against the state.
Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speaker: Rupert Abbott, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
*Source: ABC Radio Australia
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June 12, 2013
Jailed Vietnamese dissident continues hunger strike
by Defend the Defenders • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Nguyen Thi Duong Ha
A prominent dissident jailed in Vietnam has been on hunger strike for two weeks.
CHHV-Rupert/ABC Radio Australia
Lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu is protesting at what he claims has been his mistreatment at the hands of prison authorities in northern Thanh Hoa province.
His wife Nguyen Thi Duong Ha says she is very concerned for his health.
Mr Ha Vu was arrested in 2010 after filing a lawsuit against the Prime Minister over environmental issues, and his law firm also represented Catholics from Con Dau Parish in Da Nang who were detained during a police crackdown.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison, and a further three years under house arrest, for violating an article of Vietnam’s legal code that forbids the ‘spreading of propaganda’ against the state.
Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speaker: Rupert Abbott, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
*Source: ABC Radio Australia
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