Acitivist Vu Quoc Ngu holds a banner calling for release of political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc while attending a meeting of the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders in April 2015
Hanoi-based blogger Vu Quoc Ngu, who is well-known with numerous English reports on human rights violations, was held by security agents in the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport when he was on his way to Bangkok on July 12 noon.
By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 12, 2015
Vietnam’s security forces in Hanoi on Sunday [July 12] barred a local human rights campaigner from taking an international flight to attend a foreign meeting organized by the Reporters Without Borders or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF.)
Hanoi-based blogger Vu Quoc Ngu, who is well-known with numerous English reports on human rights violations, was held by security agents in the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport when he was on his way to Bangkok at the Sunday noon.
Security agents took the activist to a separate rooms where the officers informed that he will not be allowed to take the flight due to national security, without explaining in details.
Giving a minute on the blocking, security agents said the barred activist can submit his complains to the Immigration Department under the Ministry of Public Security.
The move came few days after a landmark visit of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam to the U.S. at the invitation of President Barack Obama, the first visit of a communist leader to the White House.
In his speech delivered at the Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on July 8 before numerous American scholars, diplomats and government officials, Mr. Trong said “Vietnam attaches the utmost importance to human rights issues, and is working to build a better society for all.”
The rights of freedom of expression and movement are enshrined in Vietnam’s Constitution 2013 which was adopted by the rubber-stamp parliament in the communist-ruled nation two years ago, however, the local government has applied a number of controversial laws and decrees to crack down local government critics and activists.
Along with imprisoning and harassing political dissidents and human rights advocates, Vietnam’s security forces have often blocked activists from meeting with foreign diplomats and going abroad to attend international workshops.
According to local network, hundreds of Vietnamese activists have been blocked from going abroad or their passports have been confiscated by police forces who say activists’ foreign trips will harm the country’s security.
One local blogger said there is a online group of around thousand of activists who are not allowed to go abroad.
The RSF is a France-based international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press. The organization has consultant status at the United Nations.
The Paris-headquartered organization has two primary spheres of activity: one is focused on Internet Censorship and the New Media, and the other on providing material, financial and psychological assistance to journalists assigned to dangerous areas.
For Vu Quoc Ngu reports on human rights violations in Vietnam, you can visit: /?s=%22vu+quoc+ngu%22 ./.
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July 12, 2015
Vietnam Security Forces Block Activist from Foreign Meeting of RSF
by Nhan Quyen • Vu Quoc Ngu
Acitivist Vu Quoc Ngu holds a banner calling for release of political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc while attending a meeting of the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders in April 2015
By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 12, 2015
Vietnam’s security forces in Hanoi on Sunday [July 12] barred a local human rights campaigner from taking an international flight to attend a foreign meeting organized by the Reporters Without Borders or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF.)
Hanoi-based blogger Vu Quoc Ngu, who is well-known with numerous English reports on human rights violations, was held by security agents in the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport when he was on his way to Bangkok at the Sunday noon.
Security agents took the activist to a separate rooms where the officers informed that he will not be allowed to take the flight due to national security, without explaining in details.
Giving a minute on the blocking, security agents said the barred activist can submit his complains to the Immigration Department under the Ministry of Public Security.
The move came few days after a landmark visit of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam to the U.S. at the invitation of President Barack Obama, the first visit of a communist leader to the White House.
In his speech delivered at the Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on July 8 before numerous American scholars, diplomats and government officials, Mr. Trong said “Vietnam attaches the utmost importance to human rights issues, and is working to build a better society for all.”
The rights of freedom of expression and movement are enshrined in Vietnam’s Constitution 2013 which was adopted by the rubber-stamp parliament in the communist-ruled nation two years ago, however, the local government has applied a number of controversial laws and decrees to crack down local government critics and activists.
Along with imprisoning and harassing political dissidents and human rights advocates, Vietnam’s security forces have often blocked activists from meeting with foreign diplomats and going abroad to attend international workshops.
According to local network, hundreds of Vietnamese activists have been blocked from going abroad or their passports have been confiscated by police forces who say activists’ foreign trips will harm the country’s security.
One local blogger said there is a online group of around thousand of activists who are not allowed to go abroad.
The RSF is a France-based international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press. The organization has consultant status at the United Nations.
The Paris-headquartered organization has two primary spheres of activity: one is focused on Internet Censorship and the New Media, and the other on providing material, financial and psychological assistance to journalists assigned to dangerous areas.
For Vu Quoc Ngu reports on human rights violations in Vietnam, you can visit: /?s=%22vu+quoc+ngu%22 ./.