World-recognized human rights advocate and well-known political blogger Pham Doan Trang is in very bad health conditions two weeks ahead of the scheduled trial, Defend the Defenders has learned.
During the first meeting on October 19 with her lawyers since her arrest on October 7 last year, Ms. Trang told them that her health has worsened due to bad treatment while being held incommunicado for more than one year in the Temporary detention center No. 1 managed by the Hanoi Police Department.
She has lost about ten kilograms and her blooding of female period happens 15 days a month, the lawyers said. Her blood pressure falls continuously while her legs which were hurt by plainclothes agents during a environmental mass demonstration in Hanoi in mid-2015 cause great pain and she finds it difficult to move around in the prison cell, the attorneys reported on Facebook.
After the meeting with her, her family and Hanoi-based attorneys have submitted a petition requesting proper medical treatment for her as well as allow her family, especially her elderly mother to visit her. They said she may be under serious health concerns, not excluding endometrial cancer.
As reported, Ms. Trang was arrested on October 7 last year, a few hours after the 24th Vietnam-US Annual Human Rights Dialogue. She was charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code 1999 and Article 117 of the Criminal Code 2015. After the Hanoi Police Department completed the investigation of her case and transferred the case to the city’s People’s Procuracy and People’s Court with a proposal to prosecute her of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code 1999, the People’s Court of Hanoi has scheduled to open the first-instance hearing on November 4. She faces imprisonment of between three and 12 years in prison if is convicted, according to the law which was replaced by the Criminal Code in 2018.
Trang and her family has hired seven lawyers including well-known attorneys Dang Dinh Manh and Nguyen Van Mieng from Saigon. Due to strict social distance amid Covid-19 outbreak, only Hanoi-based advocates were able to meet her on October 19. It is unclear whether lawyers Manh and Mieng can meet her before the trial or attend the hearing.
The People’s Court of Hanoi has also scheduled the first-instance hearing on November 3 to try local human rights defenders Mr. Trinh Ba Phuong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tam on the allegation of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code 2015 with imprisonment of between seven and 12 years in prison, even 20 years if are convicted. So far, the two human rights defenders and land rights activists have been permitted to meet with their lawyers for defense preparation but not their families.
Mr. Phuong’s wife told Defend the Defenders that a few days ago, she received a permission from the People’s Court of Hanoi to conduct a prison visit, however, the Temporary detention center No. 1 under the authority of the Hanoi Police Department denied the family’s right to visit him with excuse of the strict social distance applied during the 4th wave of Covid-19 outbreak.
Meanwhile, Phuong’s mother- human rights advocate Can Thi Theu and his younger brother Trinh Ba Tu, have not been permitted to communicate with their family even after they were convicted of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code 2015. In their first-instance hearing on May 5 this year, both the mother and her son were sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of probation. Their appeal hearing was scheduled on September 7 but postponed for unknown time due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has seriously affected many cities and provinces since April this year with more than 20,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of people infected. Since their arrests in late June last year, only their lawyers met them in a few occasions to prepare for their defense for the trial and the appeal hearing.
Vietnam’s crackdown on local activists and Facebookers continues and Facebooker Mr Nguyen Thien Nghia is the latest victim. On October 21, Vung Tau city-based resident was arrested and charged with “Illegal provision or use of information on computer networks or telecommunications networks” pursuant Article 288 of the Criminal Procedure Code for his comments about the government’s bad dealing with Covid-19 Delta mutation. He faces imprisonment of between three months and three years if is convicted.
With Mr. Nghia’s arrest, Vietnam’s authoritarian regime holds 265 prisoners of conscience in severe conditions. Hanoi always denies holding prisoners of conscience but only law violators.
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October 24, 2021
Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Report for October 18-24, 2021: Prominent Human Rights Defender Pham Doan Trang in Very Serious Health Concern Two Weeks Ahead of Scheduled Trial
by Defend the Defenders • [Human Rights]
Defend the Defenders | October 24, 2021
World-recognized human rights advocate and well-known political blogger Pham Doan Trang is in very bad health conditions two weeks ahead of the scheduled trial, Defend the Defenders has learned.
During the first meeting on October 19 with her lawyers since her arrest on October 7 last year, Ms. Trang told them that her health has worsened due to bad treatment while being held incommunicado for more than one year in the Temporary detention center No. 1 managed by the Hanoi Police Department.
She has lost about ten kilograms and her blooding of female period happens 15 days a month, the lawyers said. Her blood pressure falls continuously while her legs which were hurt by plainclothes agents during a environmental mass demonstration in Hanoi in mid-2015 cause great pain and she finds it difficult to move around in the prison cell, the attorneys reported on Facebook.
After the meeting with her, her family and Hanoi-based attorneys have submitted a petition requesting proper medical treatment for her as well as allow her family, especially her elderly mother to visit her. They said she may be under serious health concerns, not excluding endometrial cancer.
As reported, Ms. Trang was arrested on October 7 last year, a few hours after the 24th Vietnam-US Annual Human Rights Dialogue. She was charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code 1999 and Article 117 of the Criminal Code 2015. After the Hanoi Police Department completed the investigation of her case and transferred the case to the city’s People’s Procuracy and People’s Court with a proposal to prosecute her of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code 1999, the People’s Court of Hanoi has scheduled to open the first-instance hearing on November 4. She faces imprisonment of between three and 12 years in prison if is convicted, according to the law which was replaced by the Criminal Code in 2018.
Trang and her family has hired seven lawyers including well-known attorneys Dang Dinh Manh and Nguyen Van Mieng from Saigon. Due to strict social distance amid Covid-19 outbreak, only Hanoi-based advocates were able to meet her on October 19. It is unclear whether lawyers Manh and Mieng can meet her before the trial or attend the hearing.
The People’s Court of Hanoi has also scheduled the first-instance hearing on November 3 to try local human rights defenders Mr. Trinh Ba Phuong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tam on the allegation of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code 2015 with imprisonment of between seven and 12 years in prison, even 20 years if are convicted. So far, the two human rights defenders and land rights activists have been permitted to meet with their lawyers for defense preparation but not their families.
Mr. Phuong’s wife told Defend the Defenders that a few days ago, she received a permission from the People’s Court of Hanoi to conduct a prison visit, however, the Temporary detention center No. 1 under the authority of the Hanoi Police Department denied the family’s right to visit him with excuse of the strict social distance applied during the 4th wave of Covid-19 outbreak.
Meanwhile, Phuong’s mother- human rights advocate Can Thi Theu and his younger brother Trinh Ba Tu, have not been permitted to communicate with their family even after they were convicted of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code 2015. In their first-instance hearing on May 5 this year, both the mother and her son were sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of probation. Their appeal hearing was scheduled on September 7 but postponed for unknown time due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has seriously affected many cities and provinces since April this year with more than 20,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of people infected. Since their arrests in late June last year, only their lawyers met them in a few occasions to prepare for their defense for the trial and the appeal hearing.
Vietnam’s crackdown on local activists and Facebookers continues and Facebooker Mr Nguyen Thien Nghia is the latest victim. On October 21, Vung Tau city-based resident was arrested and charged with “Illegal provision or use of information on computer networks or telecommunications networks” pursuant Article 288 of the Criminal Procedure Code for his comments about the government’s bad dealing with Covid-19 Delta mutation. He faces imprisonment of between three months and three years if is convicted.
With Mr. Nghia’s arrest, Vietnam’s authoritarian regime holds 265 prisoners of conscience in severe conditions. Hanoi always denies holding prisoners of conscience but only law violators.