Labor activist Hoang Duc Binh
By Defend the Defenders, November 08, 2017
The People’s Procuracy in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has ordered the local police to continue its investigation against labor activist Hoang Duc Binh, said lawyer Ha Huy Son, who was hired by the activist’s family to defend for him.
The move was made more than one week after the Investigation Agency of the provincial police advised the People’s Procuracy to prosecute Mr. Binh on allegation of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens” under Article 258 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
According to a letter from the Nghe An People’s Procuracy to the Hanoi-based B14 detention facility operated by the Ministry of Public Security, Mr. Binh will be under detention until January 6, 2018.
The Nghe An People’s Procuracy did not elaborate the charges of Mr. Binh, who is vice president of the unsanctioned Viet Labor Movement.
Mr. Binh was kidnapped by Nghe An security forces on May 15 when he traveled in a car with Catholic priests. Later, police announced that they arrested him on charges of “Destroying or deliberately damaging property” under Article 143, “resisting persons in the performance of their official duties” under Article 257 and “abusing democratic freedoms under Article 258 of the Penal Code.
All three charges are stumped-up and politically motivated, said Hoang Duc Hao, a younger brother of Mr. Binh.
On June 15, one month after being arrested in Nghe An province, Binh was transferred from a local detention center to B14 detention facility.
Mr. Binh, vice president of the unsanctioned Viet Labor Movement, was arrested and probed due to his peaceful activities which aim to help the Catholic community in the central region to seek justice in the environmental disaster caused by the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant into the central coastal waters last year.
Binh and Bach Hong Quyen are two bloggers who have covered information about the natural disaster caused by the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant as well as local protests against the pollution-causing investor. Quyen was forced to flee to a foreign country to seek political refugee status after authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh on June 12 issued an arrest warrant for him, accusing him of “causing public disorder” for his peaceful activities.
The arrest and charges of Binh is part of the ongoing intensified crackdown against Vietnamese activists, with arrests and heavy sentences of dozens of political dissidents, human rights defenders, social activists and online bloggers since late 2015, starting with the arrest of human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Ms. Le Thu Ha.
Since the beginning of 2017, Vietnam’s communist government has arrested over 20 local activists and charged them with serious allegations such as anti-state propaganda under Article 88 and subversion under Article 79 of the Penal Code. The Brotherhood for Democracy is targeted, with nine key activists charged with subversion.
Vietnam has also jailed many activists with heavy sentences, including prominent human rights defenders Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh with 10 years in prison and land rights activist Tran Thi Nga- nine years in prison and four years under house arrest afterward, and blogger Nguyen Van Oai, with five years in jail and four years under house arrest.
Vietnam is holding over 100 political prisoners, according to Human Rights Watch. However, Hanoi has always denied, saying it imprisons only law violators.
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November 8, 2017
Investigation against Labor Activist Hoang Duc Binh Continues
by Nhan Quyen • Hoang Duc Binh (Viet Labor)
Labor activist Hoang Duc Binh
By Defend the Defenders, November 08, 2017
The People’s Procuracy in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has ordered the local police to continue its investigation against labor activist Hoang Duc Binh, said lawyer Ha Huy Son, who was hired by the activist’s family to defend for him.
The move was made more than one week after the Investigation Agency of the provincial police advised the People’s Procuracy to prosecute Mr. Binh on allegation of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens” under Article 258 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
According to a letter from the Nghe An People’s Procuracy to the Hanoi-based B14 detention facility operated by the Ministry of Public Security, Mr. Binh will be under detention until January 6, 2018.
The Nghe An People’s Procuracy did not elaborate the charges of Mr. Binh, who is vice president of the unsanctioned Viet Labor Movement.
Mr. Binh was kidnapped by Nghe An security forces on May 15 when he traveled in a car with Catholic priests. Later, police announced that they arrested him on charges of “Destroying or deliberately damaging property” under Article 143, “resisting persons in the performance of their official duties” under Article 257 and “abusing democratic freedoms under Article 258 of the Penal Code.
All three charges are stumped-up and politically motivated, said Hoang Duc Hao, a younger brother of Mr. Binh.
On June 15, one month after being arrested in Nghe An province, Binh was transferred from a local detention center to B14 detention facility.
Mr. Binh, vice president of the unsanctioned Viet Labor Movement, was arrested and probed due to his peaceful activities which aim to help the Catholic community in the central region to seek justice in the environmental disaster caused by the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant into the central coastal waters last year.
Binh and Bach Hong Quyen are two bloggers who have covered information about the natural disaster caused by the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant as well as local protests against the pollution-causing investor. Quyen was forced to flee to a foreign country to seek political refugee status after authorities in the central province of Ha Tinh on June 12 issued an arrest warrant for him, accusing him of “causing public disorder” for his peaceful activities.
The arrest and charges of Binh is part of the ongoing intensified crackdown against Vietnamese activists, with arrests and heavy sentences of dozens of political dissidents, human rights defenders, social activists and online bloggers since late 2015, starting with the arrest of human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Ms. Le Thu Ha.
Since the beginning of 2017, Vietnam’s communist government has arrested over 20 local activists and charged them with serious allegations such as anti-state propaganda under Article 88 and subversion under Article 79 of the Penal Code. The Brotherhood for Democracy is targeted, with nine key activists charged with subversion.
Vietnam has also jailed many activists with heavy sentences, including prominent human rights defenders Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh with 10 years in prison and land rights activist Tran Thi Nga- nine years in prison and four years under house arrest afterward, and blogger Nguyen Van Oai, with five years in jail and four years under house arrest.
Vietnam is holding over 100 political prisoners, according to Human Rights Watch. However, Hanoi has always denied, saying it imprisons only law violators.