Mrs. Nguyen Tuyet Lan and her two grand-children passed over 1,000 km to visit her daughter Mother Mushroom held in Thanh Hoa province
Defend the Defenders, May 31, 2018
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, a prominent human rights defender and a well-known blogger under the penname of Mother Mushroom, conducted a hunger strike to protest herinhumane treatment byauthorities inPrison Camp No. 5 in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa, said her mother.
Ms. Quynh, who is serving her ten-year imprisonment in the prison, carried out the hunger strike betweenMay 5-11, said Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, who accompanied Quynh’s two kids to visit her in the prison on May 31.
Quynh, who was convicted in June last year, said she is not allowed to send mail to her kids orreceive mail from relatives and friends as the prison’s authorities punish her for her refusal to admit wrongdoings.
Quynh said she stoppedeating the food supplied by the prison because she felt bad and tired after consuming it. Now she is taking only the food provided by her family.
The prison’s authorities refused to allow her to take lunch together with her kids, saying only “good” inmates can enjoy the privilege.
Quynh was arrested on October 10, 2016 and charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code for her peaceful activities and articles about police brutality, China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty and environmental pollution, especially the environmental disaster in 2016 caused by the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in the central coast.
In late June 2017, Quynh was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison. Her conviction has been condemned by many foreign democratic governments and international human rights organizations as well as Vietnamese citizens.
In February, she was transferred to the Prison Camp No. 5 in Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province, about 1,200 km from her native province of Khanh Hoa as Vietnam’s authorities want to punish her by making trouble for her mother and kids to visit her in prison. Due to the long distance, her mother can only visit her twice every three months. She can send her food via postonce a month,but it must not exceed six kilograms.
In Vietnam, it is a common practice to send prisoners of conscience to prisons far from their families along with other inhumane treatment measures such as solitary confinement, low-quality food and water, bad hygiene, limit family visit and use of criminal inmates to attack prisoners of conscience, as well as forced labor.
Quynh, who was awarded a Hellman Hammett grant from Human Rights Watch in 2010 as a writer defending free expression, the 2015 Civil Rights Defender of the Year award from Civil Rights Defenders in 2015 and the International Women of Courage award from the US State Department in 2017, pledged to continue to fight for the right of sending and receiving mails, and expects other activists and friends to write her so she can get update information of the life outside.
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May 31, 2018
Jailed Prominent Blogger Mother Mushroom Conducts Hunger Strike to Protest Ill Treatments
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (Me Nam)
Mrs. Nguyen Tuyet Lan and her two grand-children passed over 1,000 km to visit her daughter Mother Mushroom held in Thanh Hoa province
Defend the Defenders, May 31, 2018
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, a prominent human rights defender and a well-known blogger under the penname of Mother Mushroom, conducted a hunger strike to protest herinhumane treatment byauthorities inPrison Camp No. 5 in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa, said her mother.
Ms. Quynh, who is serving her ten-year imprisonment in the prison, carried out the hunger strike betweenMay 5-11, said Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan, who accompanied Quynh’s two kids to visit her in the prison on May 31.
Quynh, who was convicted in June last year, said she is not allowed to send mail to her kids orreceive mail from relatives and friends as the prison’s authorities punish her for her refusal to admit wrongdoings.
Quynh said she stoppedeating the food supplied by the prison because she felt bad and tired after consuming it. Now she is taking only the food provided by her family.
The prison’s authorities refused to allow her to take lunch together with her kids, saying only “good” inmates can enjoy the privilege.
Quynh was arrested on October 10, 2016 and charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code for her peaceful activities and articles about police brutality, China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty and environmental pollution, especially the environmental disaster in 2016 caused by the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in the central coast.
In late June 2017, Quynh was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison. Her conviction has been condemned by many foreign democratic governments and international human rights organizations as well as Vietnamese citizens.
In February, she was transferred to the Prison Camp No. 5 in Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province, about 1,200 km from her native province of Khanh Hoa as Vietnam’s authorities want to punish her by making trouble for her mother and kids to visit her in prison. Due to the long distance, her mother can only visit her twice every three months. She can send her food via postonce a month,but it must not exceed six kilograms.
In Vietnam, it is a common practice to send prisoners of conscience to prisons far from their families along with other inhumane treatment measures such as solitary confinement, low-quality food and water, bad hygiene, limit family visit and use of criminal inmates to attack prisoners of conscience, as well as forced labor.
Quynh, who was awarded a Hellman Hammett grant from Human Rights Watch in 2010 as a writer defending free expression, the 2015 Civil Rights Defender of the Year award from Civil Rights Defenders in 2015 and the International Women of Courage award from the US State Department in 2017, pledged to continue to fight for the right of sending and receiving mails, and expects other activists and friends to write her so she can get update information of the life outside.