Comic artist Le Quoc Anh, 32 in Vietnam’s southern province of Tien Giang has disappeared since mid-April after being interrogated by the local police.
According to his father, on April 7, he went to the local police for interrogation as request, and two days later, he went out of their house in My Tho city when his parents went to work in a local wet market. Since then, he has not contacted his family.
One month earlier, the police officers from the Security Investigation Agency of the Tien Giang Police Department detained him while he was working in a printing firm near his parents’ house. Later on the same day, they searched his parents’ house and confiscated his passport, driving license, cell phones, cameras, Ipad and books without making a report.
They held him in 15 days without issuing any documents for detention until his father contacted Ho Chi Minh City-based human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng for assistance.
On March 23, Mieng went to the Tien Giang Police Department to ask about Le Quoc Anh but the police replied that they did not hold him. The police also refused to accept Mieng’s application for legal assistance for Le Quoc Anh.
When Mieng returned to HCM City, the police freed Le Quoc Anh.
After Le Quoc Anh disappeared, on August 22, the Tien Giang Police issued decision charging him allegation “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code.
Four days later, the provincial police summoned Le Quoc Anh’s father and announced his arrest warrant.
Three months later, on August 27, the state-controlled media published in unison the special arrest warrant of defendant Le Quoc Anh, and reported that the Tien Giang police have started criminal proceedings against him for “condcuting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code.
According to laweyer Mieng, Le Quoc Anh is a children’s illustrator and a comic artist; his passion was to draw pictures and sell his comic books online.
Attorney Mieng expressed his concern about Le Quoc Anh: “There was something dubious and sinister about this situation: in Aug 2023, the police issued the special arrest warrant yet the whole nation wasn’t informed about it; then 3 months later, [in Nov 2023], this news suddenly was splashed all over [the state media]. Normally, a special arrest warrant would go hand in hand with informing the public about it. Is Tien Giang police investigation bureau trying to cover up their crime, as currently there is absolutely no information about Le Quoc Anh.”
Environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach’s family visit cut short after he mentioning prison guard’s assault
Authorities in Prion camp No. 6 on November 15 stopped the conversation between imprisoned environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach and his wife during the family regular visit in the facility after he mentioned the incident three months earlier in which he was brutally beaten by prison guards.
According to his wife Tran Phuong Thao, their conversation was stopped 15 minutes before its due.
“When Bach told me I need to contact Nghe An province People’s Prosecutor Office about his two letters of grievance that haven’t been considered, as they directly related to the fact that he was assaulted on August 31.
He didn’t finish talking about it, when immediately [prison guards] stopped him and cut the phone line, then 3 surveillance cadres demanded the visit to stop right away.”
She said while Bach was forcefully dragged out of the visit room, he managed to yell out the name of police officer Nguyen Doan Anh as a guy beating him three months ago.
Bach also told his wife that he rejected his conviction for “tax evasion” and refused to pay VND1.38 billion. He asserted he didn’t commit this offence.
Thao said in recent months, Hoang Mai ward Civil Sentence Enforcement Office continuously demanded her family to pay that amount, threatening to confiscate her family’s only residence where she, her children and Bach’s parents live.
Six More Montagnards Wanted by Vietnamese Police in Dak Lak Attacks
The Security Investigation Agency of the Dak Lak provincial Police has issued a special warrant for the six, who are charged with terrorism under Article 299 of Vietnam’s Criminal Code.
One of the six is Y Quynh Bdap, co-founder of Montargards Stand For Justice (MSFJ) which works to fight for religious freedom of ethnic people in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
Y Quynh Bdap, who is live as a political refugee in Thailand, denied his involvement in the bloody attacks on June 10 in two communal offices of Cu Kuin district, Dak Lak province.
So far, Dak Lak provincial police have charged or prosecuted 96 people on various offenses related to the attacks and have expanded their investigations, state media reported.
In September 2023, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To admitted the root causes of Dak Lak attacks were the income inequality [between mainstream Vietnamese and ethnic minorities] and poor land management by authorities. This was the first official acknowledgement that reasons other than “incitement” by hostile forces were to blame for the incident.
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December 4, 2023
Vietnam Defend the Defenders’ Weekly Report for November 27- December 3, 2023: Comic artist Le Quoc Anh unseen after interrogating with police
by Defend the Defenders • DEFENDER’S WEEKLY
Defend the Defenders | December 3, 2023
Comic artist Le Quoc Anh, 32 in Vietnam’s southern province of Tien Giang has disappeared since mid-April after being interrogated by the local police.
According to his father, on April 7, he went to the local police for interrogation as request, and two days later, he went out of their house in My Tho city when his parents went to work in a local wet market. Since then, he has not contacted his family.
One month earlier, the police officers from the Security Investigation Agency of the Tien Giang Police Department detained him while he was working in a printing firm near his parents’ house. Later on the same day, they searched his parents’ house and confiscated his passport, driving license, cell phones, cameras, Ipad and books without making a report.
They held him in 15 days without issuing any documents for detention until his father contacted Ho Chi Minh City-based human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng for assistance.
On March 23, Mieng went to the Tien Giang Police Department to ask about Le Quoc Anh but the police replied that they did not hold him. The police also refused to accept Mieng’s application for legal assistance for Le Quoc Anh.
When Mieng returned to HCM City, the police freed Le Quoc Anh.
After Le Quoc Anh disappeared, on August 22, the Tien Giang Police issued decision charging him allegation “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code.
Four days later, the provincial police summoned Le Quoc Anh’s father and announced his arrest warrant.
Three months later, on August 27, the state-controlled media published in unison the special arrest warrant of defendant Le Quoc Anh, and reported that the Tien Giang police have started criminal proceedings against him for “condcuting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code.
According to laweyer Mieng, Le Quoc Anh is a children’s illustrator and a comic artist; his passion was to draw pictures and sell his comic books online.
Attorney Mieng expressed his concern about Le Quoc Anh: “There was something dubious and sinister about this situation: in Aug 2023, the police issued the special arrest warrant yet the whole nation wasn’t informed about it; then 3 months later, [in Nov 2023], this news suddenly was splashed all over [the state media]. Normally, a special arrest warrant would go hand in hand with informing the public about it. Is Tien Giang police investigation bureau trying to cover up their crime, as currently there is absolutely no information about Le Quoc Anh.”
Environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach’s family visit cut short after he mentioning prison guard’s assault
Authorities in Prion camp No. 6 on November 15 stopped the conversation between imprisoned environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach and his wife during the family regular visit in the facility after he mentioned the incident three months earlier in which he was brutally beaten by prison guards.
According to his wife Tran Phuong Thao, their conversation was stopped 15 minutes before its due.
“When Bach told me I need to contact Nghe An province People’s Prosecutor Office about his two letters of grievance that haven’t been considered, as they directly related to the fact that he was assaulted on August 31.
He didn’t finish talking about it, when immediately [prison guards] stopped him and cut the phone line, then 3 surveillance cadres demanded the visit to stop right away.”
She said while Bach was forcefully dragged out of the visit room, he managed to yell out the name of police officer Nguyen Doan Anh as a guy beating him three months ago.
Bach also told his wife that he rejected his conviction for “tax evasion” and refused to pay VND1.38 billion. He asserted he didn’t commit this offence.
Thao said in recent months, Hoang Mai ward Civil Sentence Enforcement Office continuously demanded her family to pay that amount, threatening to confiscate her family’s only residence where she, her children and Bach’s parents live.
Six More Montagnards Wanted by Vietnamese Police in Dak Lak Attacks
The Security Investigation Agency of the Dak Lak provincial Police has issued a special warrant for the six, who are charged with terrorism under Article 299 of Vietnam’s Criminal Code.
One of the six is Y Quynh Bdap, co-founder of Montargards Stand For Justice (MSFJ) which works to fight for religious freedom of ethnic people in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
Y Quynh Bdap, who is live as a political refugee in Thailand, denied his involvement in the bloody attacks on June 10 in two communal offices of Cu Kuin district, Dak Lak province.
So far, Dak Lak provincial police have charged or prosecuted 96 people on various offenses related to the attacks and have expanded their investigations, state media reported.
In September 2023, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To admitted the root causes of Dak Lak attacks were the income inequality [between mainstream Vietnamese and ethnic minorities] and poor land management by authorities. This was the first official acknowledgement that reasons other than “incitement” by hostile forces were to blame for the incident.