Pro-democracy campaigner and human rights defender Ngo Duy Quyen
Defend the Defenders, June 2, 2018
Vietnam’s authorities have summoned pro-democracy campaigner and human rights defender Ngo Duy Quyen to a police station for interrogation overposts on his Facebook account, the activist told Defend the Defenders.
According to the police summons, dated on June 1, Mr. Quyen, 44, was required toreportat 8.30 AM of June 2 to work with Hanoi police about the content of his recent posts.
Quyen refusedto gomeet with police officers on Saturday,for whichhe may face detention in coming days.
The police move came five days after Quyen posted a status calling Vietnam to arrest Lieutenant General Duong Minh Hung, deputy chief of the General Department of Security under the Ministry of Public Security, who is reportedly sought by Germany’s authorities inrelation tothe kidnappingof former Vietnamese senior officialTrinh Xuan Thanh in Berlin last July.
According to German media, Gen. Hung is likely the key figure in designing and implementing theabduction andillegal detention of Thanh, a former executive of an affiliate company of the state-owned PetroVietnam. Thanh fled to Germany and applied for political refugee before being kidnapped by Vietnamese secret agentsoff the Berlin streets and later reappearing in Vietnam.
After Thanh appeared in Vietnam’s national television, Germany investigated the case and found many Vietnamese diplomatshad beeninvolvedin the kidnapping. The government of Germany expelled two diplomats working in Vietnam’s Embassy in Berlin. It was reported that German authorities issued international arrests for a number of Vietnamese officials, including Gen. Hung.
It is not the first time Quyen has beensummoned by Hanoi police in relation with his social activities.
He has participated in many peaceful demonstrations, including 11 gatherings in Hanoi in 2011 to protest China’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea). He wasarrested many times duringthese events.
In 2016, he was detained twice by Hanoi police after he, on behalf of a group of activists sent a joint petition demanding an investigation of police power abuse to authorities in the capital city.Police also threatened him and his family after searching his private residence and confiscated a number of things, including computers and money. They still keep these items and money.
Mr. Quyenis the husband of prominent former political prisoner Le Thi Cong Nhan and an older brother of former prisoner of conscience Ngo Quynh.
Due to his political activities, he has been persecuted by local authorities. Under police pressure, Quyen was forced to quit his job in a law firm. He tried to work in other fields, however, he was forced to abandon them because he could not tolerate systemic corruption among state officials.
Finally, Quyen returned to his home town in Bac Giang, and together with his brother Quynh set up an organic farm for production of chicken, ducks, fish and vegetables. His high-quality products meet high demand, and he has become a regular supplier of safe farm produce for social activists in Hanoi and adjacent localities.
Quyen is a key member of a charity organization named BauBi Tuong Than (People Solidarity)which has granted financial assistance for prisoners of conscience and their families as well as land petitioners. The unsanctioned human rights organization has provided limited but valuable supports for hundreds of activists nationwide.
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June 2, 2018
Hanoi-based Activist Summoned for Interrogation After Calling for Arrest of Police General Involving in Kidnaping In Berlin
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Ngo Duy Quyen
Pro-democracy campaigner and human rights defender Ngo Duy Quyen
Defend the Defenders, June 2, 2018
Vietnam’s authorities have summoned pro-democracy campaigner and human rights defender Ngo Duy Quyen to a police station for interrogation overposts on his Facebook account, the activist told Defend the Defenders.
According to the police summons, dated on June 1, Mr. Quyen, 44, was required toreportat 8.30 AM of June 2 to work with Hanoi police about the content of his recent posts.
Quyen refusedto gomeet with police officers on Saturday,for whichhe may face detention in coming days.
The police move came five days after Quyen posted a status calling Vietnam to arrest Lieutenant General Duong Minh Hung, deputy chief of the General Department of Security under the Ministry of Public Security, who is reportedly sought by Germany’s authorities inrelation tothe kidnappingof former Vietnamese senior officialTrinh Xuan Thanh in Berlin last July.
According to German media, Gen. Hung is likely the key figure in designing and implementing theabduction andillegal detention of Thanh, a former executive of an affiliate company of the state-owned PetroVietnam. Thanh fled to Germany and applied for political refugee before being kidnapped by Vietnamese secret agentsoff the Berlin streets and later reappearing in Vietnam.
After Thanh appeared in Vietnam’s national television, Germany investigated the case and found many Vietnamese diplomatshad beeninvolvedin the kidnapping. The government of Germany expelled two diplomats working in Vietnam’s Embassy in Berlin. It was reported that German authorities issued international arrests for a number of Vietnamese officials, including Gen. Hung.
It is not the first time Quyen has beensummoned by Hanoi police in relation with his social activities.
He has participated in many peaceful demonstrations, including 11 gatherings in Hanoi in 2011 to protest China’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea). He wasarrested many times duringthese events.
In 2016, he was detained twice by Hanoi police after he, on behalf of a group of activists sent a joint petition demanding an investigation of police power abuse to authorities in the capital city.Police also threatened him and his family after searching his private residence and confiscated a number of things, including computers and money. They still keep these items and money.
Mr. Quyenis the husband of prominent former political prisoner Le Thi Cong Nhan and an older brother of former prisoner of conscience Ngo Quynh.
Due to his political activities, he has been persecuted by local authorities. Under police pressure, Quyen was forced to quit his job in a law firm. He tried to work in other fields, however, he was forced to abandon them because he could not tolerate systemic corruption among state officials.
Finally, Quyen returned to his home town in Bac Giang, and together with his brother Quynh set up an organic farm for production of chicken, ducks, fish and vegetables. His high-quality products meet high demand, and he has become a regular supplier of safe farm produce for social activists in Hanoi and adjacent localities.
Quyen is a key member of a charity organization named BauBi Tuong Than (People Solidarity)which has granted financial assistance for prisoners of conscience and their families as well as land petitioners. The unsanctioned human rights organization has provided limited but valuable supports for hundreds of activists nationwide.