The private apartment of Nguyen Van Dai, an well-known human rights activist in Hanoi, was attacked on Mar 6, on the same day his four-year house arrest expired, according to his facebook account.
Lawyer Dai, who was served his four-year imprisonment between 2007 and 2011, was under house arrest until Friday. In 2007, he was arrested and charged for anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the country’s Penal Code.
During his four-year house arrest, Hanoi’s police regularly sent their staff to monitor him, and closely followed him when he went out within the ward where he resides. However, only plainclothes agents were nearby yesterday when the term ended.
In the morning, a group of activists came to his appartment to congratulate his full freedom. When they left, the activists met a group of thugs who took pictures and filmed the visitors but no incident happened.
Later, seeing Mr. Dai in the bancon of his appartment in the 3rd floor of the building, the thugs insulted him. When he went inside, the thugs came and tried to break the front door of his appartment. They broke the door, which was once destroyed by thugs on Jan 30.
Several minutes later, the thugs left.
Mr. Dai called the local police but received no assistance.
On Thursday’s afternoon, a group of four thugs also gathered in front of his apartment and insulted his family. Dai telephoned the local police for assistance but he received no response.
Mr. Dai was a subject of attack of hired thugs several times during the house arrest. In late 2013, thugs attacked him with glass at a local restaurant when he was with his fellows of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy. He received serious injuries in his head and needed to be hospitalized for treatment.
Mr. Dai was not allowed to visit friends outside of his ward. A few weeks ago, he was detained in the local police station and fined with VND2.5 million for going to the private house of his friend Pham Hong Son in Ba Dinh district for health consultation. Mr. Son, who is a medical doctor by training, is also a former political prisoner.
In order to keep the country under one-party regime, Vietnam’s communist government has tolerated any dissent. In its 2014/2015 Report released on Feb. 25, the Amnesty International said Vietnam’s security officers harassed and physically attacked peaceful activists, and held them in short-term detention.
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March 7, 2015
Apartment of Well-known Activist Attacked after House Arrest Expires
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Van Dai
The private apartment of Nguyen Van Dai, an well-known human rights activist in Hanoi, was attacked on Mar 6, on the same day his four-year house arrest expired, according to his facebook account.
Lawyer Dai, who was served his four-year imprisonment between 2007 and 2011, was under house arrest until Friday. In 2007, he was arrested and charged for anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the country’s Penal Code.
During his four-year house arrest, Hanoi’s police regularly sent their staff to monitor him, and closely followed him when he went out within the ward where he resides. However, only plainclothes agents were nearby yesterday when the term ended.
In the morning, a group of activists came to his appartment to congratulate his full freedom. When they left, the activists met a group of thugs who took pictures and filmed the visitors but no incident happened.
Later, seeing Mr. Dai in the bancon of his appartment in the 3rd floor of the building, the thugs insulted him. When he went inside, the thugs came and tried to break the front door of his appartment. They broke the door, which was once destroyed by thugs on Jan 30.
Several minutes later, the thugs left.
Mr. Dai called the local police but received no assistance.
On Thursday’s afternoon, a group of four thugs also gathered in front of his apartment and insulted his family. Dai telephoned the local police for assistance but he received no response.
Mr. Dai was a subject of attack of hired thugs several times during the house arrest. In late 2013, thugs attacked him with glass at a local restaurant when he was with his fellows of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy. He received serious injuries in his head and needed to be hospitalized for treatment.
Mr. Dai was not allowed to visit friends outside of his ward. A few weeks ago, he was detained in the local police station and fined with VND2.5 million for going to the private house of his friend Pham Hong Son in Ba Dinh district for health consultation. Mr. Son, who is a medical doctor by training, is also a former political prisoner.
In order to keep the country under one-party regime, Vietnam’s communist government has tolerated any dissent. In its 2014/2015 Report released on Feb. 25, the Amnesty International said Vietnam’s security officers harassed and physically attacked peaceful activists, and held them in short-term detention.