by Defend the Defenders, April 9, 2017
On April 9, Vietnam’s securities forces detained numerous activists on streets and placed many others under house arrest in a bid to prevent them from holding peaceful demonstrations on environmental issues related to the Formosa-caused environmental disaster in the central coastal region.
In Hanoi, the detainees included blogger Nguyen Thuy Hanh, Pham Sy Hiep, Nguyễn Khánh Nam, and Tran Quang Nam. Police held them in different locations in the city for many hours and released them in the late afternoon.
Many activists in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City reported that local authorities sent large numbers of plainclothes agents, militia and members of so-called Fatherland Front to station around their private residences from Saturday until late Sunday, not allowing activists to leave their house to travel during Sunday, even to exercise.
Hanoi-based blogger La Viet Dung posted a video on his Facebook account, which showed a group of six or seven plainclothes agents blocking him at around 3:00pm when he tried to leave his house to go play football. These agents were keeping surveillance over his house since the early morning of Sunday, Dung said.
Earlier this week, Green Trees, an environmental group, called on activists nationwide to go biking on Sunday to raise speak out on the environmental disaster caused by the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste into the central coastal waters in April 2016.
In March, political prisoner Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly and other activists also called for nationwide demonstrations to demand that Taiwanese company Formosa withdraw its projects from Vietnam and pay compensation to the people affected by last year’s environmental disaster and clean the maritime environment in the central coast.
Vietnam’s Communist government has tried to prevent public demonstrations on matters of public concern, including the environmental catastrophe caused by the Ha Tinh province-based Formosa plant, which in April 2016 discharged a huge amount of toxic industrial waste into Vietnam’s central coast waters and caused massive deaths of fisheries.
Formosa Plastic Group agreed to pay a compensation of $500 million to the affected fishermen; however, the sum is too small to settle the consequences of the catastrophe it caused, environmentalists said.
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April 9, 2017
Numerous Vietnamese Activists under House Arrest for 6th Consecutive Weekend, Many Others Detained
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
by Defend the Defenders, April 9, 2017
On April 9, Vietnam’s securities forces detained numerous activists on streets and placed many others under house arrest in a bid to prevent them from holding peaceful demonstrations on environmental issues related to the Formosa-caused environmental disaster in the central coastal region.
In Hanoi, the detainees included blogger Nguyen Thuy Hanh, Pham Sy Hiep, Nguyễn Khánh Nam, and Tran Quang Nam. Police held them in different locations in the city for many hours and released them in the late afternoon.
Many activists in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City reported that local authorities sent large numbers of plainclothes agents, militia and members of so-called Fatherland Front to station around their private residences from Saturday until late Sunday, not allowing activists to leave their house to travel during Sunday, even to exercise.
Hanoi-based blogger La Viet Dung posted a video on his Facebook account, which showed a group of six or seven plainclothes agents blocking him at around 3:00pm when he tried to leave his house to go play football. These agents were keeping surveillance over his house since the early morning of Sunday, Dung said.
Earlier this week, Green Trees, an environmental group, called on activists nationwide to go biking on Sunday to raise speak out on the environmental disaster caused by the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste into the central coastal waters in April 2016.
In March, political prisoner Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly and other activists also called for nationwide demonstrations to demand that Taiwanese company Formosa withdraw its projects from Vietnam and pay compensation to the people affected by last year’s environmental disaster and clean the maritime environment in the central coast.
Vietnam’s Communist government has tried to prevent public demonstrations on matters of public concern, including the environmental catastrophe caused by the Ha Tinh province-based Formosa plant, which in April 2016 discharged a huge amount of toxic industrial waste into Vietnam’s central coast waters and caused massive deaths of fisheries.
Formosa Plastic Group agreed to pay a compensation of $500 million to the affected fishermen; however, the sum is too small to settle the consequences of the catastrophe it caused, environmentalists said.