Front Line Defenders, June 16, 2017
On 14 June 2017, it emerged that human rights defender Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh had been formally charged with three criminal counts under article 88 (1) of the Vietnamese Penal Code, which carry a penalty of between 3 and 12 years imprisonment. Until the 14 June 2017, the authorities had said that she was being detained on charges of ‘propaganda against the state’ without specifying which counts. On 4 June 2017, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh’s mother was notified by the court that her daughter’s detention would be extended by two and a half months. She has been detained since 10 October 2016.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is a blogger and Coordinator of the Vietnamese Bloggers Network. Since 2006, she has been blogging under the pseudonym of Me Nam (Mother Mushroom). She has exposed corruption cases and human rights violations committed by the authorities, and as a result, has been targeted and subjected to arrest and physical attacks. She is the recipient of the 2014 Human Rights Defender award from the Stockholm-based NGO Civil Rights Defenders and was recently awarded the 2017 International Women of Courage Award from the US Department of State.
On 14 June 2017, it emerged that the Vietnamese authorities had formally charged Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh with counts a, b and c of Article 88 of the Penal Code, related to ‘conducting anti-state propaganda’. If found guilty, she faces up to 12 years in prison. She is charged with ‘Propagating against, distorting and/or defaming the people’s administration’, ‘Propagating psychological warfare and spreading fabricated news in order to foment confusion among people’ and ‘Making, storing and/or circulating documents and/or cultural products with contents against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh was arrested on 10 October 2016 and has been held in a detention centre in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province ever since, without being permitted visits from her family or her lawyers. On 20 May 2017, the human rights defender’s mother, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, as well as her two children were placed under de facto house arrest for a number of days while the Vietnam-US Human Rights Dialogue took place in Hanoi. They remain under police surveillance.
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June 16, 2017
Vietnam: Authorities formally charge and extend detention of Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (Me Nam)
Front Line Defenders, June 16, 2017
On 14 June 2017, it emerged that human rights defender Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh had been formally charged with three criminal counts under article 88 (1) of the Vietnamese Penal Code, which carry a penalty of between 3 and 12 years imprisonment. Until the 14 June 2017, the authorities had said that she was being detained on charges of ‘propaganda against the state’ without specifying which counts. On 4 June 2017, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh’s mother was notified by the court that her daughter’s detention would be extended by two and a half months. She has been detained since 10 October 2016.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is a blogger and Coordinator of the Vietnamese Bloggers Network. Since 2006, she has been blogging under the pseudonym of Me Nam (Mother Mushroom). She has exposed corruption cases and human rights violations committed by the authorities, and as a result, has been targeted and subjected to arrest and physical attacks. She is the recipient of the 2014 Human Rights Defender award from the Stockholm-based NGO Civil Rights Defenders and was recently awarded the 2017 International Women of Courage Award from the US Department of State.
On 14 June 2017, it emerged that the Vietnamese authorities had formally charged Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh with counts a, b and c of Article 88 of the Penal Code, related to ‘conducting anti-state propaganda’. If found guilty, she faces up to 12 years in prison. She is charged with ‘Propagating against, distorting and/or defaming the people’s administration’, ‘Propagating psychological warfare and spreading fabricated news in order to foment confusion among people’ and ‘Making, storing and/or circulating documents and/or cultural products with contents against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh was arrested on 10 October 2016 and has been held in a detention centre in Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province ever since, without being permitted visits from her family or her lawyers. On 20 May 2017, the human rights defender’s mother, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, as well as her two children were placed under de facto house arrest for a number of days while the Vietnam-US Human Rights Dialogue took place in Hanoi. They remain under police surveillance.