Jailed members of the Brotherhood for Democracy
Defend the Defenders, April 1, 2018
Authorities in the northern port city of Haiphong have requested former prisoner of conscience Nguyen Xuan Nghia not go to the capital city of Hanoi on the day of the trial of six members of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy scheduled on April 5-6.
Mr. Nghia, who held a senior post of the Brotherhood for Democracy for two months before leaving the online pro-democracy organization, told Defend the Defenders that on March 28, three security officers from the city’s Police Department came to his house and made the request.
They threatened that serious consequences will be for him if he does not obey by their warning.
Nearly 28 months after the arrest of prominent human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Ms. Le Thu Ha and more than eight months of the detentions of Nguyen Trung Ton, Pham Van Troi, Truong Minh Duc and Pham Van Troi, Vietnam’s authorities will bring them to court on allegation of “carrying out attempts to overthrow the people’s administration” under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
Vietnam’s communist government has also arrested four other members of the organization namely Nguyen Van Tuc, Nguyen Trung Truc, Tran Thi Xuan and Vu Van Hung. The first three were accused of subversion while the last one is charged with “Intentionally inflicting injury on or causing harm to the health of other persons,” the allegation under Article 134 of the country’s 2015 Penal Code.
Mr. Nghia, although he left the organization two months after joining it, was summoned by police many times last year for interrogation about his membership.
According to the current Vietnamese law, every citizen can enter courtrooms to observe open trials. However, in political cases, police make all efforts to prevent activists from entering courtrooms or gathering near the courts’ areas.
In 2016, the Ministry of Public Security issued a circular (No. 13/2016/TT-BCA) in which security forces are empowered to carry out all activities to disperse gathering near courts’ areas during hearings and arrest violators with accusation of “causing public disorders.”
Based on experiences in political cases in the past, authorities in many Vietnamese locations are likely to place local activists under de facto house arrest in order to prevent them from going out to support imprisoned activists.
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April 1, 2018
Former Prisoner of Conscience Nguyen Xuan Nghia Demanded not to Attend Trial of Six Activists
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Jailed members of the Brotherhood for Democracy
Defend the Defenders, April 1, 2018
Authorities in the northern port city of Haiphong have requested former prisoner of conscience Nguyen Xuan Nghia not go to the capital city of Hanoi on the day of the trial of six members of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy scheduled on April 5-6.
Mr. Nghia, who held a senior post of the Brotherhood for Democracy for two months before leaving the online pro-democracy organization, told Defend the Defenders that on March 28, three security officers from the city’s Police Department came to his house and made the request.
They threatened that serious consequences will be for him if he does not obey by their warning.
Nearly 28 months after the arrest of prominent human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Ms. Le Thu Ha and more than eight months of the detentions of Nguyen Trung Ton, Pham Van Troi, Truong Minh Duc and Pham Van Troi, Vietnam’s authorities will bring them to court on allegation of “carrying out attempts to overthrow the people’s administration” under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
Vietnam’s communist government has also arrested four other members of the organization namely Nguyen Van Tuc, Nguyen Trung Truc, Tran Thi Xuan and Vu Van Hung. The first three were accused of subversion while the last one is charged with “Intentionally inflicting injury on or causing harm to the health of other persons,” the allegation under Article 134 of the country’s 2015 Penal Code.
Mr. Nghia, although he left the organization two months after joining it, was summoned by police many times last year for interrogation about his membership.
According to the current Vietnamese law, every citizen can enter courtrooms to observe open trials. However, in political cases, police make all efforts to prevent activists from entering courtrooms or gathering near the courts’ areas.
In 2016, the Ministry of Public Security issued a circular (No. 13/2016/TT-BCA) in which security forces are empowered to carry out all activities to disperse gathering near courts’ areas during hearings and arrest violators with accusation of “causing public disorders.”
Based on experiences in political cases in the past, authorities in many Vietnamese locations are likely to place local activists under de facto house arrest in order to prevent them from going out to support imprisoned activists.