Blogger Ta Phong Tan at the first hearing on Sept 24, 2012 in Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court
Miss Tan, who has been serving her ten-year imprisonment in the central province of Thanh Hoa, was released and brought to an airport where she was forced to take an international flight to Los Angeles during this weekend.
by Vu Quoc Ngu, Sept. 20, 2015
Vietnam’s communist government, which wants supports from the U.S. in TPP negotiations, has agreed to free prominent blogger Ta Phong Tan but forced her to live in the U.S., the RFA has reported.
According to the RFA, Miss Tan, who has been serving her ten-year imprisonment in the central province of Thanh Hoa, was released and brought to an airport where she was forced to take an international flight to Los Angeles during this weekend.
She is accompanied by Mr. David Muehlke, political officer of the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam, the news agency said, adding Tan is expected to arrive to Los Angeles at 8.35 pm (local time).
Miss Tan, who was convicted for anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code in 2012, is the third political prisoner forced to live in exile in the U.S. Last year, prominent legal expert Cu Huy Ha Vu and well-known blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay) were also taken from prison and brought directly to the U.S.
Like Dr. Vu and Mr. Hai, Tan was not allowed to meet with her relatives nor pay the first and the last visit to her died mother Dang Thi Kim Lieng who immolated herself in the front of the building of the Bac Lieu provincial People’s Committee to protest the arrest and unfair trial of the blogger member of the Club of Independent Journalists.
After being sentenced, Miss Tan was transferred to a number of prisons which are located far from her family as the government wants to make troubles for her family to visit her. Prison authorities have treated her inhumanely, forcing her to conduct a number of hunger strikes to protest the severe living conditions in jail and the tough treatments of prison authorities. The last fast was around twenty days in May-June.
The U.S. and other democratic governments as well as numerous international human rights bodies have called on Vietnam to release Miss Tan and other prisoners of conscience who bravely criticized the local communist government for systemic corruption, mismanagements and weak response to China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea.
On the occasion of the World Free Press [May 3] this year, the U.S. Department of State named a number of journalists who are illegally imprisoned, including Ms. Tan from Vietnam. Secretary John Kerry said Ms. Tan was sentenced to ten years in jail just because she publicly condemned the government corruption.
In March 2013, Secretary Kerry and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama awarded Ms. Tan as a 2013 woman of courage for her dedication to continually demanding a better government for her people, for her willingness to take risks for her beliefs, and for her life experience and skills as a writer that serve as an inspiration to women in Vietnam.
Vietnam is holding at least 135 political prisoners, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch. Dr. Vu said the Vietnamese government treats prisoners of conscience as commodities to barter with the U.S. and other Western countries for security and trade benefits as well as foreign aid. Vietnam has stocked a reserve of prisoners of conscience for future bargaining, he wrote in an article posted on the Washington Post in 2014.
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September 20, 2015
Prominent Blogger Ta Phong Tan Released, Becoming Third Vietnamese Political Prisoner to Live in Exile in U.S.
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Ta Phong Tan
Blogger Ta Phong Tan at the first hearing on Sept 24, 2012 in Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court
by Vu Quoc Ngu, Sept. 20, 2015
Vietnam’s communist government, which wants supports from the U.S. in TPP negotiations, has agreed to free prominent blogger Ta Phong Tan but forced her to live in the U.S., the RFA has reported.
According to the RFA, Miss Tan, who has been serving her ten-year imprisonment in the central province of Thanh Hoa, was released and brought to an airport where she was forced to take an international flight to Los Angeles during this weekend.
She is accompanied by Mr. David Muehlke, political officer of the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam, the news agency said, adding Tan is expected to arrive to Los Angeles at 8.35 pm (local time).
Miss Tan, who was convicted for anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code in 2012, is the third political prisoner forced to live in exile in the U.S. Last year, prominent legal expert Cu Huy Ha Vu and well-known blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay) were also taken from prison and brought directly to the U.S.
Like Dr. Vu and Mr. Hai, Tan was not allowed to meet with her relatives nor pay the first and the last visit to her died mother Dang Thi Kim Lieng who immolated herself in the front of the building of the Bac Lieu provincial People’s Committee to protest the arrest and unfair trial of the blogger member of the Club of Independent Journalists.
After being sentenced, Miss Tan was transferred to a number of prisons which are located far from her family as the government wants to make troubles for her family to visit her. Prison authorities have treated her inhumanely, forcing her to conduct a number of hunger strikes to protest the severe living conditions in jail and the tough treatments of prison authorities. The last fast was around twenty days in May-June.
The U.S. and other democratic governments as well as numerous international human rights bodies have called on Vietnam to release Miss Tan and other prisoners of conscience who bravely criticized the local communist government for systemic corruption, mismanagements and weak response to China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea.
On the occasion of the World Free Press [May 3] this year, the U.S. Department of State named a number of journalists who are illegally imprisoned, including Ms. Tan from Vietnam. Secretary John Kerry said Ms. Tan was sentenced to ten years in jail just because she publicly condemned the government corruption.
In March 2013, Secretary Kerry and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama awarded Ms. Tan as a 2013 woman of courage for her dedication to continually demanding a better government for her people, for her willingness to take risks for her beliefs, and for her life experience and skills as a writer that serve as an inspiration to women in Vietnam.
Vietnam is holding at least 135 political prisoners, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch. Dr. Vu said the Vietnamese government treats prisoners of conscience as commodities to barter with the U.S. and other Western countries for security and trade benefits as well as foreign aid. Vietnam has stocked a reserve of prisoners of conscience for future bargaining, he wrote in an article posted on the Washington Post in 2014.