by Defend the Defenders, June 25, 2017
Vietnam’s authorities have deported former political prisoner Pham Minh Hoang to France one month after President Tran Dai Quang signed a decision to revoke his Vietnamese citizenship, his wife Le Thi Kieu Oanh said.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City violently detained Mr. Hoang on late afternoon of June 23, holding him in unknown place before forcing him to take an international flight from the Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Paris in the midnight of June 24.
He had not been allowed to meet his family before being deported to France.
Hoang, who has also French citizenship, is unlikely permitted to return to his homeland if the country remains controlled by the ruling communist party. He was forced to leave his family which consists of his wife, a daughter, old mother and ill brother.
Earlier this month, Hoang, who became a permanent resident of HCM City since 2007, received a copy of President Quang’s decision which said his Vietnamese citizenship revoking is based on Hoang’s violations of the country’s security. The decision automatically made the former prisoner of conscience’s stay in Vietnam illegal.
Mr. Hoang, a member of the California-based pro-democracy group Viet Tan (Vietnam Reform Party), was arrested in August 2011 and later sentenced to three years in jail on charges of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code for his online postings and interviews to foreign media calling for multi-party democracy and human rights enhancement. Under international pressure, Vietnam was forced to free him after 17 months in prison.
The Vietnamese decision to strip off his Vietnamese citizenship has been condemned by many local activists and a number of international human rights organizations, including the Front Line Defenders and Reporters Without Borders.
Along with arresting, intimidating, beating local activists, Vietnam’s communist government has forced a number of government critics to live in exile in foreign countries. The victims include France-trained law expert Cu Huy Ha Vu, bloggers Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay) and Ta Phong Tan and Dang Xuan Dieu.
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June 25, 2017
Vietnam Government Critic Pham Minh Hoang Expelled to France
by Nhan Quyen • Pham Minh Hoang
by Defend the Defenders, June 25, 2017
Vietnam’s authorities have deported former political prisoner Pham Minh Hoang to France one month after President Tran Dai Quang signed a decision to revoke his Vietnamese citizenship, his wife Le Thi Kieu Oanh said.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City violently detained Mr. Hoang on late afternoon of June 23, holding him in unknown place before forcing him to take an international flight from the Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Paris in the midnight of June 24.
He had not been allowed to meet his family before being deported to France.
Hoang, who has also French citizenship, is unlikely permitted to return to his homeland if the country remains controlled by the ruling communist party. He was forced to leave his family which consists of his wife, a daughter, old mother and ill brother.
Earlier this month, Hoang, who became a permanent resident of HCM City since 2007, received a copy of President Quang’s decision which said his Vietnamese citizenship revoking is based on Hoang’s violations of the country’s security. The decision automatically made the former prisoner of conscience’s stay in Vietnam illegal.
Mr. Hoang, a member of the California-based pro-democracy group Viet Tan (Vietnam Reform Party), was arrested in August 2011 and later sentenced to three years in jail on charges of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code for his online postings and interviews to foreign media calling for multi-party democracy and human rights enhancement. Under international pressure, Vietnam was forced to free him after 17 months in prison.
The Vietnamese decision to strip off his Vietnamese citizenship has been condemned by many local activists and a number of international human rights organizations, including the Front Line Defenders and Reporters Without Borders.
Along with arresting, intimidating, beating local activists, Vietnam’s communist government has forced a number of government critics to live in exile in foreign countries. The victims include France-trained law expert Cu Huy Ha Vu, bloggers Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay) and Ta Phong Tan and Dang Xuan Dieu.