By Defend the Defenders, June 17, 2017
Vietnam’s authorities have barred Ms. Do Thi Minh Hanh, chairwoman of the independent Viet Labor Movement, from leaving country to visit her sick mother in Austria.
On June 15, Hanh, who was a former prisoner of conscience, was stopped by Vietnam’s security forces in the Ha Tien International Border Gate in the southern province of Kien Giang when she planned to go to Cambodia where she might take an international flight to Austria where her mother and sister are staying.
In the working minute, the authorities in the border gate said national security is the reason for the blockage, adding Hanh can seek petition for her foreign travel ban to the Immigration Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security.
Ms. Hanh, who was released in June 2014 after 44 months in prison, said she wants to visit her mother who has serious health problem. Her mother is staying with her sister who has Austrian citizenship.
Ms. Hanh is co-founder of the unsanctioned Viet Labor Movement which is striving to help Vietnamese workers fight for higher salary and better working conditions. She was arrested in late October 2010 and later sentenced to seven years in prison on charge of Disrupting security under Article 89 of the Penal Code. Under great international pressure, Vietnam was forced to release her in June 2014.
After being freed, Hanh continues to lead Viet Labor Movement to work for promoting the workers’ right to form independent unions which can protect their rights.
Vietnam’s communist government has intensified its crackdown against local political dissidents, human rights defenders and social activists in order to prevent the formation of opposition parties amid increasing social unrest due to its bad economic management, systemic corruption, weak response to China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea) and other issues.
Along with arresting and physically attacking activists, Vietnam has barred hundreds of activists from going abroad to prevent them from meeting with foreign officials and counterparts to report human rights violations in the country and learn experiences. Majority of activists nationwide cannot leave the country due to the decisions of the minister of public security or police chiefs of provinces and cities.
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June 17, 2017
Vietnam Labor Activist Barred from Leaving Country to Visit Ill Mother in Austria
by Nhan Quyen • Do Thi Minh Hanh
By Defend the Defenders, June 17, 2017
Vietnam’s authorities have barred Ms. Do Thi Minh Hanh, chairwoman of the independent Viet Labor Movement, from leaving country to visit her sick mother in Austria.
On June 15, Hanh, who was a former prisoner of conscience, was stopped by Vietnam’s security forces in the Ha Tien International Border Gate in the southern province of Kien Giang when she planned to go to Cambodia where she might take an international flight to Austria where her mother and sister are staying.
In the working minute, the authorities in the border gate said national security is the reason for the blockage, adding Hanh can seek petition for her foreign travel ban to the Immigration Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security.
Ms. Hanh, who was released in June 2014 after 44 months in prison, said she wants to visit her mother who has serious health problem. Her mother is staying with her sister who has Austrian citizenship.
Ms. Hanh is co-founder of the unsanctioned Viet Labor Movement which is striving to help Vietnamese workers fight for higher salary and better working conditions. She was arrested in late October 2010 and later sentenced to seven years in prison on charge of Disrupting security under Article 89 of the Penal Code. Under great international pressure, Vietnam was forced to release her in June 2014.
After being freed, Hanh continues to lead Viet Labor Movement to work for promoting the workers’ right to form independent unions which can protect their rights.
Vietnam’s communist government has intensified its crackdown against local political dissidents, human rights defenders and social activists in order to prevent the formation of opposition parties amid increasing social unrest due to its bad economic management, systemic corruption, weak response to China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea) and other issues.
Along with arresting and physically attacking activists, Vietnam has barred hundreds of activists from going abroad to prevent them from meeting with foreign officials and counterparts to report human rights violations in the country and learn experiences. Majority of activists nationwide cannot leave the country due to the decisions of the minister of public security or police chiefs of provinces and cities.