Hanh, a boy from Tay Ninh commune in Tien Hai district said he was tortured by communal policemen who detained him on evening of October 22, 2015 and interrogated him until 11 PM of the same day.
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 23, 2016
Dang Van Hanh, a secondary school student in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Binh has been severely beaten by local policemen who accused the 15-year-old boy of stealing a cell phone.
Hanh, a boy from Tay Ninh commune in Tien Hai district said he was tortured by communal policemen who detained him on evening of October 22, 2015 and interrogated him until 11 PM of the same day.
No relatives of the boy was invited to attend the interrogation, Hanh said.
According to the medical test taken on the next day in the district general hospital, Hanh’s nose was broken. His face was with a number of other severe injuries.
The victim said Dung, deputy chief of the communal police beat the boy on his face, and threw his shoe to the school student. Mr. Tuan, the communal police chief, also used his hand to beat the boy, causing blooding via his nose, the victim said.
The policemen brought him to a local medical facility to get treated for blooding before releasing him.
The Tay Ninh communal police rejected the accusation, saying Hanh was beaten by relatives of the person who lost the cell phone.
According to the Vietnamese law, police can only detain immature people in the age of between 14 and 16 years old in very severe cases and they are interrogated with presence of their legal representatives.
Abuse of Vietnam’s police, especially in communal level, is increasing. In mid January, Nguyen Thanh Tam, a student of 9-grade class in the central province of Quang Ngai, committed suicide after being interrogated by local police without presence of his relatives nor teacher, according to the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Saturday (http://tuoitre.vn/tin/ban-doc/20160116/hs-lop-9-len-xa-lam-viec-ve-nha-viet-thu-roi-tu-tu/1039513.html).
Tam, 17, took a herbicide in a bid to end his life on January 13 after leaving a letter to his parents to ask for forgiveness. He said in his letter that he cannot live with the groundless accusation of the local police of stealing money from a local official.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Security has sought to give more power to policemen in grassroots level. In its proposal to the country’s legislative body, the ministry suggests to allow communal police forces to conduct preliminary investigation in criminal cases, triggering concerns among legislators, legal experts and human rights for enhanced abuse of the law enforcement in the lowest administrative units.
Most of communal policemen are untrained, many of them even graduated only secondary school, according to state media.
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January 23, 2016
Vietnamese Secondary School Student Severely Beaten by Police During Interrogation
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Dang Van Hanh (Thai BinhO
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 23, 2016
Dang Van Hanh, a secondary school student in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Binh has been severely beaten by local policemen who accused the 15-year-old boy of stealing a cell phone.
Hanh, a boy from Tay Ninh commune in Tien Hai district said he was tortured by communal policemen who detained him on evening of October 22, 2015 and interrogated him until 11 PM of the same day.
No relatives of the boy was invited to attend the interrogation, Hanh said.
According to the medical test taken on the next day in the district general hospital, Hanh’s nose was broken. His face was with a number of other severe injuries.
The victim said Dung, deputy chief of the communal police beat the boy on his face, and threw his shoe to the school student. Mr. Tuan, the communal police chief, also used his hand to beat the boy, causing blooding via his nose, the victim said.
The policemen brought him to a local medical facility to get treated for blooding before releasing him.
The Tay Ninh communal police rejected the accusation, saying Hanh was beaten by relatives of the person who lost the cell phone.
According to the Vietnamese law, police can only detain immature people in the age of between 14 and 16 years old in very severe cases and they are interrogated with presence of their legal representatives.
Abuse of Vietnam’s police, especially in communal level, is increasing. In mid January, Nguyen Thanh Tam, a student of 9-grade class in the central province of Quang Ngai, committed suicide after being interrogated by local police without presence of his relatives nor teacher, according to the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Saturday (http://tuoitre.vn/tin/ban-doc/20160116/hs-lop-9-len-xa-lam-viec-ve-nha-viet-thu-roi-tu-tu/1039513.html).
Tam, 17, took a herbicide in a bid to end his life on January 13 after leaving a letter to his parents to ask for forgiveness. He said in his letter that he cannot live with the groundless accusation of the local police of stealing money from a local official.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Security has sought to give more power to policemen in grassroots level. In its proposal to the country’s legislative body, the ministry suggests to allow communal police forces to conduct preliminary investigation in criminal cases, triggering concerns among legislators, legal experts and human rights for enhanced abuse of the law enforcement in the lowest administrative units.
Most of communal policemen are untrained, many of them even graduated only secondary school, according to state media.