By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 09, 2015
Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on June 9 detained Mrs. Tran Thi Hai, a land petitioner and social activist from the northern province of Ninh Binh, in a bid to prevent any troubles for the on-going one-month sitting of the communist-controlled National Assembly, the legislative body of the one-party country.
Witnesses said she was put in a special police car and driven to unknown direction. None of her friends were informed about the detention.
In the morning, Mrs. Hai and many other land petitioners nationwide gathered near the parliament’s building in the Hanoi’s center, where legislators held their 18th day meeting. Few minutes later, security forces came and forced them to a bus which headed to a police station in Ha Dong district, about 15 kilometers away.
After few hours of keeping, police released other land petitioners but took Mrs. Hai away.
Mrs. Hai came from Ninh Binh, the home province of Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang. She became a land petitioner several years ago when her family’s land was illegally taken to be given for a Chinese mining company.
Since then, she has sent hundreds of petitions to Ninh Binh province’s state agencies and government bodies to ask for justice. However, her voice is still ignored.
During the past few years, Mrs. Hai has joined other land petitioners coming from all corners of the Southeast Asian nation to stay in streets and parks in Hanoi during nights and go to government buildings during day to ask for justice for their land.
Most of land petitioners are living in misery and receiving material supports from local residents and Vietnamese in the country and abroad.
They are subjects of detentions, harassments and torture from policemen and hired thugs. Many of them have been attacked, brutally beaten by security forces.
Along with asking land justice, Mrs. Hai and many other land petitioners have participated in anti-China protests as well as campaigns which aim to promote human rights and democracy in the communist nation.
Land seizure is one of thorny issues in Vietnam where all land belongs to the state while residents have only use right. The government and local authorities are empowered to take residents’ land for socio-economic development projects or just for building industrial zones and urban areas without paying adequate compensation.
Thousands of land petitioners have gathered in the capital city or other cities to demand for justice for their land. Many of them said local authorities took their land at low prices and sold to property investors who develop urban projects and sell apartments and villas at prices thousands times higher.
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June 9, 2015
Hanoi Police Detain Land Petitioner amid One-month Sitting of Rubber-stamp Parliament
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 09, 2015
Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on June 9 detained Mrs. Tran Thi Hai, a land petitioner and social activist from the northern province of Ninh Binh, in a bid to prevent any troubles for the on-going one-month sitting of the communist-controlled National Assembly, the legislative body of the one-party country.
Witnesses said she was put in a special police car and driven to unknown direction. None of her friends were informed about the detention.
In the morning, Mrs. Hai and many other land petitioners nationwide gathered near the parliament’s building in the Hanoi’s center, where legislators held their 18th day meeting. Few minutes later, security forces came and forced them to a bus which headed to a police station in Ha Dong district, about 15 kilometers away.
After few hours of keeping, police released other land petitioners but took Mrs. Hai away.
Mrs. Hai came from Ninh Binh, the home province of Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang. She became a land petitioner several years ago when her family’s land was illegally taken to be given for a Chinese mining company.
Since then, she has sent hundreds of petitions to Ninh Binh province’s state agencies and government bodies to ask for justice. However, her voice is still ignored.
During the past few years, Mrs. Hai has joined other land petitioners coming from all corners of the Southeast Asian nation to stay in streets and parks in Hanoi during nights and go to government buildings during day to ask for justice for their land.
Most of land petitioners are living in misery and receiving material supports from local residents and Vietnamese in the country and abroad.
They are subjects of detentions, harassments and torture from policemen and hired thugs. Many of them have been attacked, brutally beaten by security forces.
Along with asking land justice, Mrs. Hai and many other land petitioners have participated in anti-China protests as well as campaigns which aim to promote human rights and democracy in the communist nation.
Land seizure is one of thorny issues in Vietnam where all land belongs to the state while residents have only use right. The government and local authorities are empowered to take residents’ land for socio-economic development projects or just for building industrial zones and urban areas without paying adequate compensation.
Thousands of land petitioners have gathered in the capital city or other cities to demand for justice for their land. Many of them said local authorities took their land at low prices and sold to property investors who develop urban projects and sell apartments and villas at prices thousands times higher.