Mr. Tuan (center) at a protest to demand for returning land illegally seized by local authorities
When Tuan tried to change a taxi, four agents approached and took him to a remote place and beat him until he fell unconscious.
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 8, 2015
Mr. Nguyen Huy Tuan, a land rights activist from Vietnam’s northern province of Hai Duong, on January 7 was chased by local security agents who later beat him severely and robbed his items when he fell unconscious, the victim said.
Tuan, who is assisting land petitioners to seek justice, traveled from his native town in Hai Duong to Hanoi. On his way, he stopped in Cam Dien commune, Cam Giang district where local farmers are protesting against local authorities for taking their land for an industrial zone development without paying reasonable compensation.
After a few minutes sitting at a tea shop, he was surrounded by numerous local security agents. Feeling unsafe, Tuan tried to leave the scene by a motorbike driven by a local farmer. The duo was forced to take different routes in a bid to escape from agents chasing after them.
Recognizing that they were still being chased by security agents, Tuan told the driver to stop and took a taxi to head to Hanoi. When he tried to change a taxi, four agents approached and took him to a remote place and beat him until he fell unconscious.
Tuan regained consciousness two hours later and witnesses said the attackers took his suitcase which contains an iPad, an iPhone, and VND10 million ($444).
With help of a motorbike driver, Tuan called his relatives to take him to a hospital for treatment.
Tuan is among numerous Vietnamese activists beaten by security agents and hired thugs few months ahead of the National Congress of the ruling communist party which strives to maintain the country under a one-party regime.
Among the victims are human rights lawyers Nguyen Van Dai, Tran Thu Nam and Le Van Luan, bloggers Doan Trang, JB Nguyen Huu Vinh, and Nguyen Tuong Thuy, land rights activists Tran Thi Nga, labor activists Do Thi Minh Hanh and Truong Minh Duc, and pro-democracy activist Truong Van Dung.
Meanwhile, the family of former political prisoner Tran Anh Kim was unofficially informed that he was transferred from his native city of Thai Binh to the Hanoi-based B14 prison. The pro-democracy activist was arrested in early September and charged for anti-state activities under Article 79 of the country’s Penal Code eight months after completing his five-and-half-year imprisonment.
The current situation of Le Thanh Tung, a former prisoner of conscience and close friend of Mr. Kim, is unknown, said activists. About a month after the arrest of Mr. Kim, police searched the private house of Tung who said earlier that he went to a new place to do business. The police move triggered public concerns that Tung was re-arrested and probed for anti-state activities.
Former political prisoner Tran Minh Nhat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong said local police secretly destroyed his family’s pepper plantation. In November-December last year, Nhat was beaten two times by local security agents.
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January 8, 2016
Vietnam Land Rights Activist Chased by Security Agents, Robbed and Beaten Severely Later
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Le Thanh Tung, Nguyen Huy Tuan (Hai Duong), Tran Anh Kim, Tran Minh Nhat
Mr. Tuan (center) at a protest to demand for returning land illegally seized by local authorities
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 8, 2015
Mr. Nguyen Huy Tuan, a land rights activist from Vietnam’s northern province of Hai Duong, on January 7 was chased by local security agents who later beat him severely and robbed his items when he fell unconscious, the victim said.
Tuan, who is assisting land petitioners to seek justice, traveled from his native town in Hai Duong to Hanoi. On his way, he stopped in Cam Dien commune, Cam Giang district where local farmers are protesting against local authorities for taking their land for an industrial zone development without paying reasonable compensation.
After a few minutes sitting at a tea shop, he was surrounded by numerous local security agents. Feeling unsafe, Tuan tried to leave the scene by a motorbike driven by a local farmer. The duo was forced to take different routes in a bid to escape from agents chasing after them.
Recognizing that they were still being chased by security agents, Tuan told the driver to stop and took a taxi to head to Hanoi. When he tried to change a taxi, four agents approached and took him to a remote place and beat him until he fell unconscious.
Tuan regained consciousness two hours later and witnesses said the attackers took his suitcase which contains an iPad, an iPhone, and VND10 million ($444).
With help of a motorbike driver, Tuan called his relatives to take him to a hospital for treatment.
Tuan is among numerous Vietnamese activists beaten by security agents and hired thugs few months ahead of the National Congress of the ruling communist party which strives to maintain the country under a one-party regime.
Among the victims are human rights lawyers Nguyen Van Dai, Tran Thu Nam and Le Van Luan, bloggers Doan Trang, JB Nguyen Huu Vinh, and Nguyen Tuong Thuy, land rights activists Tran Thi Nga, labor activists Do Thi Minh Hanh and Truong Minh Duc, and pro-democracy activist Truong Van Dung.
Meanwhile, the family of former political prisoner Tran Anh Kim was unofficially informed that he was transferred from his native city of Thai Binh to the Hanoi-based B14 prison. The pro-democracy activist was arrested in early September and charged for anti-state activities under Article 79 of the country’s Penal Code eight months after completing his five-and-half-year imprisonment.
The current situation of Le Thanh Tung, a former prisoner of conscience and close friend of Mr. Kim, is unknown, said activists. About a month after the arrest of Mr. Kim, police searched the private house of Tung who said earlier that he went to a new place to do business. The police move triggered public concerns that Tung was re-arrested and probed for anti-state activities.
Former political prisoner Tran Minh Nhat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong said local police secretly destroyed his family’s pepper plantation. In November-December last year, Nhat was beaten two times by local security agents.