Pro-democracy advocate Nguyen Van Tuc in the trial against him on April 10, 2018.
Defend the Defenders, September 8, 2018
The Higher People’s Court in Hanoi will hold the appeal hearing of pro-democracy advocate Nguyen Van Tuc, former head of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Decmoracy, on September 14, Defend the Defenders has learned.
Mr. Tuc, 54, was arrested on September 1, 2017 and charged with subversion under Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code. On April 10, 2018, he was convicted by the People’s Court of Thai Binh province which sentenced him to 13 year in prison and five years under house arrest.
According to his daughter who was in the courtroom, Mr. Tuc couldn’t stand up during trial. The doctor checked his blood pressure before the trial and the doctor informed the court that it was quite high (190). The defendant also felt his heart muscles cramping up but the court still went on.
Mr. Tuc also has very bad hemorrhoids and he had a lot of rectal bleeding during the trial, the family said.
Like other political cases, no activists were allowed to enter the courroom to observe the trial. Authorities in Thai Binh denied the request of Mr. Tuc’s mother to be present in his hearing.
Police were reportedly deployed to block all the roads leading to the court areas to prevent his relatives and supporters to gather near the areas.
Mr. Tuc was held incommunicado detention since being caught until few weeks prior to the trial when he was permitted to meet with his lawyer to prepare for his defense.
In late June, his family told the Redio Free Asia (RFA) that he wassuffering deteriorating health in jail some nine months after his arrest.
“When he was arrested, his hair was much blacker and now it has turned quite white. His heart disease makes him unable to sleep and eat in the current hot weather,” his wife Bui Thi Re told RFA.
“He is jailed in a room without adequate ventilation and has only one small hand-made fan,” she said, adding “he looks so frail.”
This is the second imprisonment of Mr. Tuc. He had previously spent four years in prison after being convicted in 2008 of conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the Penal code. He was freed in 2012 after serving his full term.
Inorder to keep the nation under a one-party regime, the communistgovernment does not tolerate dissent, often using Article 79 and others in the national security provisions of the Penal Code to silence activists.
The London-based Amnesty Internationalhas listed Mr. Tuc among nearly 100 prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. The right group once called on Hanoi to drop the charges against Tuc and other activists of the Brotherhood for Democracy.
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September 8, 2018
Appeal Hearing of Pro-democracy Campaigner Nguyen Van Tuc Scheduled on Sept 14
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Nguyen Van Tuc
Pro-democracy advocate Nguyen Van Tuc in the trial against him on April 10, 2018.
Defend the Defenders, September 8, 2018
The Higher People’s Court in Hanoi will hold the appeal hearing of pro-democracy advocate Nguyen Van Tuc, former head of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Decmoracy, on September 14, Defend the Defenders has learned.
Mr. Tuc, 54, was arrested on September 1, 2017 and charged with subversion under Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code. On April 10, 2018, he was convicted by the People’s Court of Thai Binh province which sentenced him to 13 year in prison and five years under house arrest.
According to his daughter who was in the courtroom, Mr. Tuc couldn’t stand up during trial. The doctor checked his blood pressure before the trial and the doctor informed the court that it was quite high (190). The defendant also felt his heart muscles cramping up but the court still went on.
Mr. Tuc also has very bad hemorrhoids and he had a lot of rectal bleeding during the trial, the family said.
Like other political cases, no activists were allowed to enter the courroom to observe the trial. Authorities in Thai Binh denied the request of Mr. Tuc’s mother to be present in his hearing.
Police were reportedly deployed to block all the roads leading to the court areas to prevent his relatives and supporters to gather near the areas.
Mr. Tuc was held incommunicado detention since being caught until few weeks prior to the trial when he was permitted to meet with his lawyer to prepare for his defense.
In late June, his family told the Redio Free Asia (RFA) that he wassuffering deteriorating health in jail some nine months after his arrest.
“When he was arrested, his hair was much blacker and now it has turned quite white. His heart disease makes him unable to sleep and eat in the current hot weather,” his wife Bui Thi Re told RFA.
“He is jailed in a room without adequate ventilation and has only one small hand-made fan,” she said, adding “he looks so frail.”
This is the second imprisonment of Mr. Tuc. He had previously spent four years in prison after being convicted in 2008 of conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the Penal code. He was freed in 2012 after serving his full term.
Inorder to keep the nation under a one-party regime, the communistgovernment does not tolerate dissent, often using Article 79 and others in the national security provisions of the Penal Code to silence activists.
The London-based Amnesty Internationalhas listed Mr. Tuc among nearly 100 prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. The right group once called on Hanoi to drop the charges against Tuc and other activists of the Brotherhood for Democracy.