Frontlinedefenders |Feb 06, 2015
On 30 January 2015, two unidentified men broke the front door of the apartment of human rights lawyer Mr Nguyen Van Dai in Hanoi, and threatened to burn his home and assault him. He reported the incident to the police. The human rights defender is under house arrest in Hanoi since 2007, serving a four-year sentence that is due to end in March 2015.
Nguyen Van Dai is a co-founder of the Vietnam Human Rights Committee and a pro-democracy activist. He has provided legal assistance to government critics and members of religious minorities, and has faced judicial harassment in the past. During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hanoi in November 2006, State security officers cordoned off the human rights defender’s home and placed him under virtual house arrest.
In March 2007, Nguyen Van Dai was arrested for teaching human rights to students, and convicted of “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under article 88 of the Penal Code. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and four years of house arrest, reduced by one year on appeal.
This latest attack comes in a context of a series of physical assaults against human rights defenders and bloggers that have taken place in the previous months, which were perpetrated either by police officers or groups of people in the street. Reportedly, there has been a failure to investigate these attacks.
Front Line Defenders is gravely concerned at the attack on Nguyen Van Dai’s home and the threats made against him, particularly in light of the fact that he is currently under house arrest. Front Line Defenders expresses concern for the physical and psychological integrity of the human rights defender.
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February 9, 2015
Vietnam – Threats against human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and attack on his home
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Van Dai
Frontlinedefenders |Feb 06, 2015
On 30 January 2015, two unidentified men broke the front door of the apartment of human rights lawyer Mr Nguyen Van Dai in Hanoi, and threatened to burn his home and assault him. He reported the incident to the police. The human rights defender is under house arrest in Hanoi since 2007, serving a four-year sentence that is due to end in March 2015.
Nguyen Van Dai is a co-founder of the Vietnam Human Rights Committee and a pro-democracy activist. He has provided legal assistance to government critics and members of religious minorities, and has faced judicial harassment in the past. During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hanoi in November 2006, State security officers cordoned off the human rights defender’s home and placed him under virtual house arrest.
In March 2007, Nguyen Van Dai was arrested for teaching human rights to students, and convicted of “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under article 88 of the Penal Code. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and four years of house arrest, reduced by one year on appeal.
This latest attack comes in a context of a series of physical assaults against human rights defenders and bloggers that have taken place in the previous months, which were perpetrated either by police officers or groups of people in the street. Reportedly, there has been a failure to investigate these attacks.
Front Line Defenders is gravely concerned at the attack on Nguyen Van Dai’s home and the threats made against him, particularly in light of the fact that he is currently under house arrest. Front Line Defenders expresses concern for the physical and psychological integrity of the human rights defender.