Ta Minh Tu (left) and Tran Thi Nga with banners to protest passport grant refusal of Vietnam’s police
The reason for the ban is that Ms. Tu and Ms. Nga are members of the unsanctioned Vietnamese Women for Human Rights which fights for human rights and multi-party democracy in the Southeast Asian nation.
By Vu Quoc Ngu | July 4, 2015
Vietnam’s police have rejected to grant passports for two other local human rights activists without giving specific reasons for that, the victims complained.
On July 2, Ms. Ta Minh Tu from the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu and Ms. Tran Thi Nga from the northern province of Ha Nam, went to immigration departments in their localities to apply for passports. However, local authorities rejected, saying the applicants were not eligible to obtain the documents as they have been banned from going abroad.
The reason for the ban is that Ms. Tu and Ms. Nga are members of the unsanctioned Vietnamese Women for Human Rights which fights for human rights and multi-party democracy in the Southeast Asian nation.
Police officers in Ha Nam told Ms. Nga, who is also a labor activist, that she is banned from foreign trips from Dec 31, 2012 until Dec 31, 2015 under Article 21 of the government’s Decree 136.
However, the police did not show any legal document from authorized agency for banning. They even threatened Ms. Nga.
Meanwhile, Ms. Tu, a younger sister of imprisoned political dissident Ta Phong Tan, went to Bac Lieu province’s Immigration Department to pick up her passport she applied before. Police officers of the department said she was not granted with passport due to her membership of the Vietnamese Women for Human Rights which is considered by Vietnam’s communist government as illegal organization.
Ms. Tu recorded her working with two police officers of the department, however, three female policemen violently took her recorder and erased the file.
Along with imposing measures to harass and suppress local political dissidents and human rights activists, Vietnam’s communist government has banned them from going abroad. Police have refused to grant passports for many peoples and confiscate the documents from others, saying their foreign travels may harm the country’s security.
On May 18, Professor Dr. Nguyen Hue Chi, a prominent scholar and co-founder of the dissident website Bauxite Vietnam was barred from taking a flight to the U.S. where he will visit his daughter. Security forces in Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport violently confiscated his passport.
Later, 155 intellectuals jointly petitioned to protest Prof. Chi’s passport confiscation and the authorities in HCMC were forced to return his passport. He is now in the U.S. with his relatives.
Dr. Pham Chi Dung, president of the unregistered Independent Journalist Association of Vietnam and Le Thu Ha, member of the Brotherhood of Democracy, are among numerous activists whose passports were illegally confiscated by Vietnam’s security forces.
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July 4, 2015
Two More Vietnamese Human Rights Activists Rejected to Obtain Passports
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Hue Chi, Pham Chi Dung, Ta Minh Tu, Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga)
Ta Minh Tu (left) and Tran Thi Nga with banners to protest passport grant refusal of Vietnam’s police
By Vu Quoc Ngu | July 4, 2015
Vietnam’s police have rejected to grant passports for two other local human rights activists without giving specific reasons for that, the victims complained.
On July 2, Ms. Ta Minh Tu from the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu and Ms. Tran Thi Nga from the northern province of Ha Nam, went to immigration departments in their localities to apply for passports. However, local authorities rejected, saying the applicants were not eligible to obtain the documents as they have been banned from going abroad.
The reason for the ban is that Ms. Tu and Ms. Nga are members of the unsanctioned Vietnamese Women for Human Rights which fights for human rights and multi-party democracy in the Southeast Asian nation.
Police officers in Ha Nam told Ms. Nga, who is also a labor activist, that she is banned from foreign trips from Dec 31, 2012 until Dec 31, 2015 under Article 21 of the government’s Decree 136.
However, the police did not show any legal document from authorized agency for banning. They even threatened Ms. Nga.
Meanwhile, Ms. Tu, a younger sister of imprisoned political dissident Ta Phong Tan, went to Bac Lieu province’s Immigration Department to pick up her passport she applied before. Police officers of the department said she was not granted with passport due to her membership of the Vietnamese Women for Human Rights which is considered by Vietnam’s communist government as illegal organization.
Ms. Tu recorded her working with two police officers of the department, however, three female policemen violently took her recorder and erased the file.
Along with imposing measures to harass and suppress local political dissidents and human rights activists, Vietnam’s communist government has banned them from going abroad. Police have refused to grant passports for many peoples and confiscate the documents from others, saying their foreign travels may harm the country’s security.
On May 18, Professor Dr. Nguyen Hue Chi, a prominent scholar and co-founder of the dissident website Bauxite Vietnam was barred from taking a flight to the U.S. where he will visit his daughter. Security forces in Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport violently confiscated his passport.
Later, 155 intellectuals jointly petitioned to protest Prof. Chi’s passport confiscation and the authorities in HCMC were forced to return his passport. He is now in the U.S. with his relatives.
Dr. Pham Chi Dung, president of the unregistered Independent Journalist Association of Vietnam and Le Thu Ha, member of the Brotherhood of Democracy, are among numerous activists whose passports were illegally confiscated by Vietnam’s security forces.