Ani-China activists cycling on Hanoi streets every Sunday
Blogger Nam Phuong said the policemen forcibly detained them and brutally took them into a police truck like animals and held them in the police station of Ngoc Khanh ward.
By Vu Quoc Ngu, August 21, 2016
Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on August 21 detained seven anti-China activists while they were cycling in city’s streets and released them after holding them in police station for seven hours.
The detainees included pro-democracy activist Nguyen Van Dien, Nam Phuong, Bui The Anh, Chu Thanh Nga, Le My Hanh, and Dang Quoc Thinh.
Police deported Mr. Dien to his home province of Yen Bai, as they did on July 31.
Blogger Nam Phuong said her group started cycling on Hanoi’s streets in the morning of Sunday. They worn T-shirts with slogan saying Truong Sa (Spratlys) and Hoang Sa (Paracels) belong to Vietnam.
During the journey, the group was closely followed by around 20 plainclothes agents on their motorbikes deployed by the Hanoi city’s Department of Police.
Sometimes, plainclothes agents intentionally clashed their motorbikes with some of the group in order to cause incident so uniformed policemen to intervene. However, the group successfully avoided being troubled.
When the group took a rest in Ngoc Khanh lake in Ba Dinh district, local policemen came and detained the activists, saying they stopped in restricted areas.
Blogger Nam Phuong said the policemen forcibly detained them and brutally took them into a police truck like animals and held them in the police station of Ngoc Khanh ward.
During the seven-hour detention in the police station of Ngoc Khanh ward, police officers interrogated them, trying to charge them of causing public disorders.
Facing strong protest from the detainees, police released them afternoon but took Mr. Dien and deported him to his home province of Yen Bai. When other activists tried to prevent police from taking Dien into a car, police beat them. Nam Phuong said she suffered a pain in her arms due to the police’s assault.
The group of Dien has cycled in Hanoi every Sunday in recent week.
This is the second detention of Mr. Dien within three weeks. On July 31, when cycling with the same group in Hanoi’s streets, he was kidnapped by the local police who held him for ten hours before deporting him to his family house in the northernmost province of Yen Bai (you can read in details about Mr. Dien’s kidnap on July 31 in: /2016/08/02/hanoi-police-kidnap-pro-democracy-activist-deporting-him-to-home-province-after-14-hours-in-detention/)
Vietnam has claimed sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa in the East Sea (South China Sea), the two archipelago the country has peacefully administered since the 17th century.
China illegally occupies Hoang Sa and seven features in Truong Sa after military invasion in the 1956-1988 period. Recently, China has turned the seven features in Truong Sa into artificial islands, and built a number of civil and military facilities there.
Beijing has deployed missiles and military aircrafts in Hoang Sa in a bid to solidify its illegal claim of over 90% of the resource-rich East Sea, which is also very important for international navigation. In addition, China has killed, detained, harassed and robbed thousands of Vietnamese fishermen when they were working in Vietnam’s traditional fishing grounds in the water near Hoang Sa.
On July 12, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague rejected the Chinese U-shaped line claim in the East Sea, saying the Beijing’s historical claim is groundless.
Vietnam has reiterated its sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, and wants to peacefully settle the territorial and maritime disputes with China and other claimants in the East Sea based on international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
However, the communist government in Hanoi has severely suppressed all peaceful demonstrations of local activists who protest the Chinese violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea.
During the past few years, many anti-China activists have been arrested and imprisoned while others have suffered harassment and intimidations.
Vietnam’s communist government has little tolerance for its critics and applied many measures to prevent spontaneous demonstrations. It has ordered the security forces to assault, kidnap and detain as well as block activists in order not to allow them to organize or participate in peaceful protests.
On July 23, after being re-elected as chairwoman of the country’s highest legislative body National Assembly, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, member of the ruling communist party’s Politburo, criticized anti-China activists, saying their demonstrations aim to cause instability in the country.
Since the beginning of 2016, dozens of government critics, social activists and human rights defenders have been assaulted by plainclothes agents while hundreds of others have been detained to police stations where many of them were interrogated and tortured by police officers, according to the statistics of Defend the Defenders.
Vietnam’s communists have vowed to maintain a one-party regime and made all effort to prevent the establishment of political opposition.
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August 21, 2016
Hanoi Police Detain Anti-China Activists amid East Sea Tensions
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Ani-China activists cycling on Hanoi streets every Sunday
By Vu Quoc Ngu, August 21, 2016
Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on August 21 detained seven anti-China activists while they were cycling in city’s streets and released them after holding them in police station for seven hours.
The detainees included pro-democracy activist Nguyen Van Dien, Nam Phuong, Bui The Anh, Chu Thanh Nga, Le My Hanh, and Dang Quoc Thinh.
Police deported Mr. Dien to his home province of Yen Bai, as they did on July 31.
Blogger Nam Phuong said her group started cycling on Hanoi’s streets in the morning of Sunday. They worn T-shirts with slogan saying Truong Sa (Spratlys) and Hoang Sa (Paracels) belong to Vietnam.
During the journey, the group was closely followed by around 20 plainclothes agents on their motorbikes deployed by the Hanoi city’s Department of Police.
Sometimes, plainclothes agents intentionally clashed their motorbikes with some of the group in order to cause incident so uniformed policemen to intervene. However, the group successfully avoided being troubled.
When the group took a rest in Ngoc Khanh lake in Ba Dinh district, local policemen came and detained the activists, saying they stopped in restricted areas.
Blogger Nam Phuong said the policemen forcibly detained them and brutally took them into a police truck like animals and held them in the police station of Ngoc Khanh ward.
During the seven-hour detention in the police station of Ngoc Khanh ward, police officers interrogated them, trying to charge them of causing public disorders.
Facing strong protest from the detainees, police released them afternoon but took Mr. Dien and deported him to his home province of Yen Bai. When other activists tried to prevent police from taking Dien into a car, police beat them. Nam Phuong said she suffered a pain in her arms due to the police’s assault.
The group of Dien has cycled in Hanoi every Sunday in recent week.
This is the second detention of Mr. Dien within three weeks. On July 31, when cycling with the same group in Hanoi’s streets, he was kidnapped by the local police who held him for ten hours before deporting him to his family house in the northernmost province of Yen Bai (you can read in details about Mr. Dien’s kidnap on July 31 in: /2016/08/02/hanoi-police-kidnap-pro-democracy-activist-deporting-him-to-home-province-after-14-hours-in-detention/)
Vietnam has claimed sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa in the East Sea (South China Sea), the two archipelago the country has peacefully administered since the 17th century.
China illegally occupies Hoang Sa and seven features in Truong Sa after military invasion in the 1956-1988 period. Recently, China has turned the seven features in Truong Sa into artificial islands, and built a number of civil and military facilities there.
Beijing has deployed missiles and military aircrafts in Hoang Sa in a bid to solidify its illegal claim of over 90% of the resource-rich East Sea, which is also very important for international navigation. In addition, China has killed, detained, harassed and robbed thousands of Vietnamese fishermen when they were working in Vietnam’s traditional fishing grounds in the water near Hoang Sa.
On July 12, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague rejected the Chinese U-shaped line claim in the East Sea, saying the Beijing’s historical claim is groundless.
Vietnam has reiterated its sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, and wants to peacefully settle the territorial and maritime disputes with China and other claimants in the East Sea based on international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
However, the communist government in Hanoi has severely suppressed all peaceful demonstrations of local activists who protest the Chinese violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea.
During the past few years, many anti-China activists have been arrested and imprisoned while others have suffered harassment and intimidations.
Vietnam’s communist government has little tolerance for its critics and applied many measures to prevent spontaneous demonstrations. It has ordered the security forces to assault, kidnap and detain as well as block activists in order not to allow them to organize or participate in peaceful protests.
On July 23, after being re-elected as chairwoman of the country’s highest legislative body National Assembly, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, member of the ruling communist party’s Politburo, criticized anti-China activists, saying their demonstrations aim to cause instability in the country.
Since the beginning of 2016, dozens of government critics, social activists and human rights defenders have been assaulted by plainclothes agents while hundreds of others have been detained to police stations where many of them were interrogated and tortured by police officers, according to the statistics of Defend the Defenders.
Vietnam’s communists have vowed to maintain a one-party regime and made all effort to prevent the establishment of political opposition.