Activist Huynh Thuc Vy with her daughter
Defend the Defenders, October 16, 2018
Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have handed over the investigation results against local human rights defender and pro-democracy campaigner Huynh Thuc Vy to the province’s People’s Procuracy, proposing to prosecute her on allegation of “Affronting the national flag or national emblem” under Article 276 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
Vy, the 33-year mother of a two-year-old girl, may be tried soon and will face imprisonment of between six months and three years in prison, if is convicted, according to the current Vietnamese law.
On August 9, police in Dak Lakdetained herafter she denied police’s request to go to a local police station for interrogation.She was released in late evening of the same day.
Police also searched her house and confiscated her laptop, Ipad, books and other items. They summoned her on October 16 and returned some of these items, she told Defend the Defenders.
Later, police announced to charge her with “disrespecting the national flag” and placed her under house arrest. They also issued a decision banning her from travel abroad.
Last year, Vy was pictured with the Vietnamese national flag which was tainted with paint. Someone said she intentionally defamed the flag that she has never recognized.
Vy, 33, is the oldest child of former political prisoner Huynh Ngoc Tuan, who spent ten years in prison in 1992-2002 for sending his political book abroad.
She has posted a number of articles for human rights and multi-party democracy, including a book tittled “Nhận định Sự thật Tự do và Nhân quyền” (A view on Truth, Freedom and Human Rights). She also advocates for rights of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, often visiting families of prisoners of conscience in the region.
She is among founders of the unsanctioned organization Vietnam Women for Human Rights, and was its president before getting maternal leave.
She is banned from foreign trip as police confiscated her passport when she was on her way to attend a workshop on cyber security organized by Reporters Without Borders in Bangkok in June 2015.
She was interrogated many times in the past. In 2012, she was arrested by the police, put in a car that went for a 1,000kms. She was then interrogated continuously for 12 hours, before being dropped at a fuel station at midnight.
In May, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) listed Vy as one of five female activists who are risking their lives to protect others’ rights. Other activists include Wang Yu from China, Maria Chin Abdullah from Malaysia, Anchana Heemina from Thailand and Phyoe Phyoe Aung from Myanmar.
Since 2013, Mr. Tuan’s family has been suppressed by police. He was brutally assailed by plainclothes agents several times and suffered a number of severe injuries.
The family of his youngest child, Huynh Trong Hieu, was forced to flee to Thailand to seek for political asylum.
Under police’s pressure, Vy and her husband Duy were forced to leave Ho Chi Minh City to Buon Ho several years ago where they are running coffee business.
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October 17, 2018
Vietnam’s Police Propose to Prosecute HRD Huynh Thuc Vy on Allegation of “Disrespecting National Flag”
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Huynh Thuc Vy
Activist Huynh Thuc Vy with her daughter
Defend the Defenders, October 16, 2018
Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have handed over the investigation results against local human rights defender and pro-democracy campaigner Huynh Thuc Vy to the province’s People’s Procuracy, proposing to prosecute her on allegation of “Affronting the national flag or national emblem” under Article 276 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code.
Vy, the 33-year mother of a two-year-old girl, may be tried soon and will face imprisonment of between six months and three years in prison, if is convicted, according to the current Vietnamese law.
On August 9, police in Dak Lakdetained herafter she denied police’s request to go to a local police station for interrogation.She was released in late evening of the same day.
Police also searched her house and confiscated her laptop, Ipad, books and other items. They summoned her on October 16 and returned some of these items, she told Defend the Defenders.
Later, police announced to charge her with “disrespecting the national flag” and placed her under house arrest. They also issued a decision banning her from travel abroad.
Last year, Vy was pictured with the Vietnamese national flag which was tainted with paint. Someone said she intentionally defamed the flag that she has never recognized.
Vy, 33, is the oldest child of former political prisoner Huynh Ngoc Tuan, who spent ten years in prison in 1992-2002 for sending his political book abroad.
She has posted a number of articles for human rights and multi-party democracy, including a book tittled “Nhận định Sự thật Tự do và Nhân quyền” (A view on Truth, Freedom and Human Rights). She also advocates for rights of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, often visiting families of prisoners of conscience in the region.
She is among founders of the unsanctioned organization Vietnam Women for Human Rights, and was its president before getting maternal leave.
She is banned from foreign trip as police confiscated her passport when she was on her way to attend a workshop on cyber security organized by Reporters Without Borders in Bangkok in June 2015.
She was interrogated many times in the past. In 2012, she was arrested by the police, put in a car that went for a 1,000kms. She was then interrogated continuously for 12 hours, before being dropped at a fuel station at midnight.
In May, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) listed Vy as one of five female activists who are risking their lives to protect others’ rights. Other activists include Wang Yu from China, Maria Chin Abdullah from Malaysia, Anchana Heemina from Thailand and Phyoe Phyoe Aung from Myanmar.
Since 2013, Mr. Tuan’s family has been suppressed by police. He was brutally assailed by plainclothes agents several times and suffered a number of severe injuries.
The family of his youngest child, Huynh Trong Hieu, was forced to flee to Thailand to seek for political asylum.
Under police’s pressure, Vy and her husband Duy were forced to leave Ho Chi Minh City to Buon Ho several years ago where they are running coffee business.