Mr. Vu Hung at a trial in 2009
Defend the Defenders, January 05, 2018
The family of former prisoner of conscience Vu Hung was informed by the Hanoi police that he is held in the Temporary Detention Center of Thanh Xuan district police from January 4.
The detention will last at least three days, police told his wife Ly Mai. The family can provide some supplements for him but not allowed to meet him, police said.
Hung, a former secondary school teacher, will be investigated on allegation of “causing public disorders” under Article 318 of the country’s 2015 Penal Code, according to the arrest warrant.
Mr. Hung, a member of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy, went missing from 1.30 PM of Thursday after participating a meeting of the unsanctioned Chu Van An Teachers Association in a restaurant in Thanh Xuan Bac ward, Thanh Xuan district. The lunch-meeting was disrupted as the restaurant owner under district police pressure asked the participants left the facility at the middle of the event.
After failure to connect with Mr. Hung by phones, his relatives went to different places to seek for him. When his wife and son came to the police station of Thanh Xuan Bac ward, they found him kept here.
Police denied telling them the reason for his detention while Mr. Hung said he was caught in a trumped-up case and beaten by plainclothes before being arrested and taken to the police station. He was hand-cuffed, the wife said.
At 10.30 PM of the same day, police took Mr. Hung to a taxi which droved away. Police refused to tell the family where he will be held.
A policeman who is responsible for security in his area and was invited by Thanh Xuan Bac police on the case told the family that Hung was arrested due to his involvement in a clash but refused to give more details.
The detention is related to his human rights activities, affirmed Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer of Defend the Defenders, adding Vietnam’s security forces often detain or kidnap targeted activists in trumped-up cases and later charge them with controversial articles in the Penal Code’s national security provisions.
Mr. Hung is a member of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy, one of main targets of Vietnam’s ongoing crackdown on local dissent, the most severe campaign for many years.
Last year, Vietnam arrested key members of the online organization, including Nguyen Trung Ton, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Van Tuc, Truong Minh Duc, and Nguyen Trung Truc. The founder Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Ms. Le Thu Ha were arrested in late 2015. They were charged with subversion under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code and face life imprisonment or even death punishment if convicted, according to the current law.
In November 2017, Mr. Hung was summoned by Hanoi police several times for interrogation about his membership of the Brotherhood for Democracy.
Mr. Hung is a former political prisoner. In 2008, he was arrested for hanging banners calling for multi-party democracy and later convicted with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the 1999 Penal Code. He was sentenced to three years in jail and three years under house arrest. He was forced to abandon his job as a secondary school teacher.
After being released in 2011, Hung has actively participated in peaceful demonstrations and meetings on social issues, including the environmental disaster caused by the toxic industrial waste discharge of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in the central coastal region in 2016 which caused massive death of marine there.
The Communist Party of Vietnam has ruled the country for decades and strives to maintain the nation under a one-party regime.
Since the 12th National Congress of the party in February 2016 with appointments of many police officers to senior positions of the party and state apparatuses, Vietnam has launched severe campaign to suppress local political dissidents, human rights defenders, social activists and online bloggers.
The peak of the crackdown was 2017 with arrests of 45 activists on allegations under controversial articles 79 and 88 of the 1999 Penal Code. The communist government convicted 20 activists, sentencing them to between three and 16 years in prisons.
In addition, Vietnam also expelled two pro-democracy activists to France.
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January 5, 2018
Hanoi Police Detain Former Prisoner of Conscience Vu Hung amid Increasing Crackdown on Dissent
by Nhan Quyen • Vu Van Hung (Vu Hung)
Mr. Vu Hung at a trial in 2009
Defend the Defenders, January 05, 2018
The family of former prisoner of conscience Vu Hung was informed by the Hanoi police that he is held in the Temporary Detention Center of Thanh Xuan district police from January 4.
The detention will last at least three days, police told his wife Ly Mai. The family can provide some supplements for him but not allowed to meet him, police said.
Hung, a former secondary school teacher, will be investigated on allegation of “causing public disorders” under Article 318 of the country’s 2015 Penal Code, according to the arrest warrant.
Mr. Hung, a member of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy, went missing from 1.30 PM of Thursday after participating a meeting of the unsanctioned Chu Van An Teachers Association in a restaurant in Thanh Xuan Bac ward, Thanh Xuan district. The lunch-meeting was disrupted as the restaurant owner under district police pressure asked the participants left the facility at the middle of the event.
After failure to connect with Mr. Hung by phones, his relatives went to different places to seek for him. When his wife and son came to the police station of Thanh Xuan Bac ward, they found him kept here.
Police denied telling them the reason for his detention while Mr. Hung said he was caught in a trumped-up case and beaten by plainclothes before being arrested and taken to the police station. He was hand-cuffed, the wife said.
At 10.30 PM of the same day, police took Mr. Hung to a taxi which droved away. Police refused to tell the family where he will be held.
A policeman who is responsible for security in his area and was invited by Thanh Xuan Bac police on the case told the family that Hung was arrested due to his involvement in a clash but refused to give more details.
The detention is related to his human rights activities, affirmed Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer of Defend the Defenders, adding Vietnam’s security forces often detain or kidnap targeted activists in trumped-up cases and later charge them with controversial articles in the Penal Code’s national security provisions.
Mr. Hung is a member of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy, one of main targets of Vietnam’s ongoing crackdown on local dissent, the most severe campaign for many years.
Last year, Vietnam arrested key members of the online organization, including Nguyen Trung Ton, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Van Tuc, Truong Minh Duc, and Nguyen Trung Truc. The founder Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant Ms. Le Thu Ha were arrested in late 2015. They were charged with subversion under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code and face life imprisonment or even death punishment if convicted, according to the current law.
In November 2017, Mr. Hung was summoned by Hanoi police several times for interrogation about his membership of the Brotherhood for Democracy.
Mr. Hung is a former political prisoner. In 2008, he was arrested for hanging banners calling for multi-party democracy and later convicted with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the 1999 Penal Code. He was sentenced to three years in jail and three years under house arrest. He was forced to abandon his job as a secondary school teacher.
After being released in 2011, Hung has actively participated in peaceful demonstrations and meetings on social issues, including the environmental disaster caused by the toxic industrial waste discharge of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in the central coastal region in 2016 which caused massive death of marine there.
The Communist Party of Vietnam has ruled the country for decades and strives to maintain the nation under a one-party regime.
Since the 12th National Congress of the party in February 2016 with appointments of many police officers to senior positions of the party and state apparatuses, Vietnam has launched severe campaign to suppress local political dissidents, human rights defenders, social activists and online bloggers.
The peak of the crackdown was 2017 with arrests of 45 activists on allegations under controversial articles 79 and 88 of the 1999 Penal Code. The communist government convicted 20 activists, sentencing them to between three and 16 years in prisons.
In addition, Vietnam also expelled two pro-democracy activists to France.