Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer of Defend the Defenders
By Defend the Defenders, January 10, 2017
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will not allow local human rights activist, Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, to travel abroad at least until April 2018.
Mr. Ngu, chief executive officer of the independent human rights organization Defend the Defenders, has been banned from traveling abroad due to “national security reasons” under the government’s Decree 136, officers from the city’s Department of Public Security informed him at a recent meeting.
The verbal notice was made after Mr. Ngu challenged the decision of the Department of Public Security, particularly its Sub-Department of Immigration, to prevent him from traveling to France in September last year.
The police officers refused to give details about the travel ban. They also refused to lift the ban, as Mr. Ngu requested.
On September 26, 2016, Mr. Ngu was stopped in Noi Bai International Airport when he was on his way to Paris, where he was invited to attend a conference on freedom of the press organized by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières, or RSF).
Earlier, in July 2015, Mr. Ngu was also prevented from traveling to Bangkok to attend a cyber security training course conducted by RSF.
Along with barring him from going abroad, security forces in Hanoi have also prevented him from meeting with foreign diplomats and attending peaceful gatherings of local activists.
Mr. Ngu is among hundreds of Vietnamese political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders who cannot go abroad for “national security reasons” regulated by the government Decree 136.
Many of them have challenged the ban before various courts of law but to no avail, as all of them said they could not review cases related to national security.
Defend the Defenders is a non-governmental organization striving to report serious human rights violations in Vietnam and to support human rights defenders in their work. It has close ties with local activists and international human rights organizations such as the London-based Amnesty International, the New York-based Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, the Paris-based RSF and the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders.
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January 10, 2017
Hanoi-based Human Rights Activist Told He Cannot Travel Abroad until April 2018
by Nhan Quyen • Vu Quoc Ngu
Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer of Defend the Defenders
By Defend the Defenders, January 10, 2017
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will not allow local human rights activist, Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, to travel abroad at least until April 2018.
Mr. Ngu, chief executive officer of the independent human rights organization Defend the Defenders, has been banned from traveling abroad due to “national security reasons” under the government’s Decree 136, officers from the city’s Department of Public Security informed him at a recent meeting.
The verbal notice was made after Mr. Ngu challenged the decision of the Department of Public Security, particularly its Sub-Department of Immigration, to prevent him from traveling to France in September last year.
The police officers refused to give details about the travel ban. They also refused to lift the ban, as Mr. Ngu requested.
On September 26, 2016, Mr. Ngu was stopped in Noi Bai International Airport when he was on his way to Paris, where he was invited to attend a conference on freedom of the press organized by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières, or RSF).
Earlier, in July 2015, Mr. Ngu was also prevented from traveling to Bangkok to attend a cyber security training course conducted by RSF.
Along with barring him from going abroad, security forces in Hanoi have also prevented him from meeting with foreign diplomats and attending peaceful gatherings of local activists.
Mr. Ngu is among hundreds of Vietnamese political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders who cannot go abroad for “national security reasons” regulated by the government Decree 136.
Many of them have challenged the ban before various courts of law but to no avail, as all of them said they could not review cases related to national security.
Defend the Defenders is a non-governmental organization striving to report serious human rights violations in Vietnam and to support human rights defenders in their work. It has close ties with local activists and international human rights organizations such as the London-based Amnesty International, the New York-based Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, the Paris-based RSF and the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders.