By Vu Quoc Ngu | Nov 05, 2015
Vietnam’s security forces in the morning of Thursday [Nov. 5] violently suppressed demonstrations which protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, brutally beating many activists and detaining dozens of others, according to local media.
In Ho Chi Minh City, police barbarically beat many activists, causing severe injuries for anti-China protestors. Facebookers have been spreading pictures of activists bleeding. Police also detained around 20 activists.
In Hanoi, dozens of activists gathered in the city’s center to demand the Chinese leader go away. Numerous policemen and plainclothes agents blocked the protestors and later forcibly detained them, put them into a bus that drove in an unknown direction, said other activists.
In recent days ahead of the two-day visit to Hanoi of President Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Vietnam’s communist government has tightened security control, putting many local activists under close surveillance.
A number of political dissidents and human rights activists have been brutally assaulted recently, according to state and local media.
On Wednesday, one day ahead of Mr. Xi’s arrival, several anti-China demonstrations occurred in Hanoi and HCM City without being suppressed by local security forces.
During his stay in Hanoi on Nov. 5-6, Mr. Xi is scheduled to hold talks with Vietnamese leaders, including General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong, President Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to discuss measures to deepen the two communist nations’ comprehensive strategic partnership.
Vietnam and China have overlapping sovereignty claims on Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys), the two archipelagos Vietnam has peacefully administered before the 17th century. However, Xi said in Washington during his visit there last month that China has historical evidence of possessing the two groups of islands and reefs.
Recently, China has boosted its reclamation on Truong Sa, building cement islands and military facilities on reefs it violently took over from Vietnam in 1988.
Vietnamese activists have also expressed their disappointment that U.S. President Barack Obama will not visit the country in November. The U.S. is considered the key power for challenging the Chinese expansionism in the East Sea.
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November 5, 2015
Vietnam Police Brutally Beat Anti-China Activists, Detaining Numerous Protestors
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
In Ho Chi Minh City, police barbarically beat many activists, causing severe injuries for anti-China protestors. Facebookers have been spreading pictures of activists bleeding. Police also detained around 20 activists.
In Hanoi, dozens of activists gathered in the city’s center to demand the Chinese leader go away. Numerous policemen and plainclothes agents blocked the protestors and later forcibly detained them, put them into a bus that drove in an unknown direction, said other activists.
By Vu Quoc Ngu | Nov 05, 2015
Vietnam’s security forces in the morning of Thursday [Nov. 5] violently suppressed demonstrations which protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, brutally beating many activists and detaining dozens of others, according to local media.
In Ho Chi Minh City, police barbarically beat many activists, causing severe injuries for anti-China protestors. Facebookers have been spreading pictures of activists bleeding. Police also detained around 20 activists.
In Hanoi, dozens of activists gathered in the city’s center to demand the Chinese leader go away. Numerous policemen and plainclothes agents blocked the protestors and later forcibly detained them, put them into a bus that drove in an unknown direction, said other activists.
In recent days ahead of the two-day visit to Hanoi of President Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Vietnam’s communist government has tightened security control, putting many local activists under close surveillance.
A number of political dissidents and human rights activists have been brutally assaulted recently, according to state and local media.
On Wednesday, one day ahead of Mr. Xi’s arrival, several anti-China demonstrations occurred in Hanoi and HCM City without being suppressed by local security forces.
During his stay in Hanoi on Nov. 5-6, Mr. Xi is scheduled to hold talks with Vietnamese leaders, including General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong, President Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to discuss measures to deepen the two communist nations’ comprehensive strategic partnership.
Vietnam and China have overlapping sovereignty claims on Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys), the two archipelagos Vietnam has peacefully administered before the 17th century. However, Xi said in Washington during his visit there last month that China has historical evidence of possessing the two groups of islands and reefs.
Recently, China has boosted its reclamation on Truong Sa, building cement islands and military facilities on reefs it violently took over from Vietnam in 1988.
Vietnamese activists have also expressed their disappointment that U.S. President Barack Obama will not visit the country in November. The U.S. is considered the key power for challenging the Chinese expansionism in the East Sea.