September 1, 2017
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung, Tran Anh Kim
RFA, August 31, 2017 Two high-profile Vietnamese dissidents have been quietly transferred from a prison in northern Vietnam’s Ha Nam province to a prison in Thanh Hoa province farther from their homes, a report on a Hanoi-based dissident web site says. Le Thanh Tung and Tran Anh Kim were sentenced in December 2016 to 13 […]
August 30, 2017
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung
Defend the Defenders, August 30, 2017 Vietnam’s authorities have transferred jailed political dissident Le Thanh Tung from the Ba Sao prison in the northern province of Ha Nam to another detention facility without informing his family. Mrs. Tran Thi An, the wife of Mr. Tung, said she does not know where her husband is […]
May 28, 2017
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung, Tran Anh Kim
By Defend the Defenders, May 27, 2017 On May 26, the Higher People’s Court in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi rejected the appeals of two political activists, Tran Anh Kim and Le Thanh Tung, finding them guilty of conducting “attempts to overthrow the people’s government” under Article 79 of the country’s Penal Code. The court […]
December 24, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung, Tran Anh Kim
By Defend the Defenders, December 19, 2016 U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius said that he is deeply concerned by the sentencing of two Vietnamese pro-democracy activists, Tran Anh Kim and Le Thanh Tung, according to a media release of the Embassy dated December 19. The release was issued three days after a Vietnamese court […]
December 20, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung, Tran Anh Kim
By Defend the Defenders, December 20, 2016 U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius has said that he is deeply concerned by sentencing of two Vietnamese pro-democracy activists Tran Anh Kim and Le Thanh Tung, according to a media release of the Embassy on Dec 19. The media release was made three days after Vietnam’s court […]
December 16, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung, Tran Anh Kim
By Defend the Defenders, December 16, 2016 Vietnam’s communist government has imprisoned two pro-democracy activists, Tran Anh Kim and Le Thanh Tung, with heavy sentences on charges of “conducting activities aiming to overthrow the state” under Article 79 of the country’s Penal Code. On December 16, the People’s Court of the northern province of Thai […]
December 6, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung, Tran Anh Kim
By Defend the Defenders, December 6, 2016 Vietnam’s authorities will bring two democracy campaigners Tran Anh Kim and Le Thanh Tung to court on charge with attempting to overthrow the government under Article 79 of the country’s Penal Code on December 16, a local activist said. The People’s Court in the northern province of Thai […]
January 10, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Le Thanh Tung
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 10, 2016 Le Thanh Tung, a political dissident who completed his four-year imprisonment in mid 2015, was arrested in December last year. Mr. Tung, who works in the same group with Mr. Tran Anh Kim, will face allegation of conducting anti-state propaganda activities under Article 88 of the Penal Code, […]
January 8, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Le Thanh Tung, Nguyen Huy Tuan (Hai Duong), Tran Anh Kim, Tran Minh Nhat
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 8, 2015 Mr. Nguyen Huy Tuan, a land rights activist from Vietnam’s northern province of Hai Duong, on January 7 was chased by local security agents who later beat him severely and robbed his items when he fell unconscious, the victim said. Tuan, who is assisting land petitioners to […]
September 23, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Bui Thi Minh Hang, Dang Xuan Dieu, Dinh Nguyen Kha, Ho Duc Hoa, Le Thanh Tung, Ngo Hao, Nguyen Cong Chinh (Nguyen Thanh Long), Nguyen Huu Vinh (Anh Ba Sam), Nguyen Ngoc Cuong, Nguyen Ngoc Gia, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Nguyen Van Ly, Pham Minh Vu, Ta Phong Tan, Tran Anh Kim, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Tran Vu Anh Binh (Hoang Nhat Thong)
RSF | Sep 22, 2015 Reporters Without Borders is relieved by blogger Ta Phong Tan’s release after three years in prison on an anti-state propaganda charge but points out that 15 other citizen-journalists are still detained in Vietnam. A former policewoman held since 5 September 2011, Ta Phong Tan was released on 19 September and […]
July 2, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Le Quoc Quan, Le Thanh Tung
Asia News | Jul 01, 2015 Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews/EDA) – Vietnam’s Catholics and international media have welcomed with joy the release last Friday of Le Quoc Quân, a human rights lawyer convicted in 2013 on tax fraud. For human rights associations and foreign governments, the conviction of the 45-year-old Catholic activist was “politically […]
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May 23, 2020
Vietnamese Dissidents Deprived of Fresh Air, Medicine in Prison
by Nhan Quyen • Le Thanh Tung
Vietnamese political prisoner Le Thanh Tung is shown in an undated photo RFA RFA, May 22, 2020 Political prisoners held in northern Vietnam’s Nam Ha Prison are suffering in temperatures soaring in their cells to over 100 degrees (37 C), the wife of one prisoner said, adding that her husband has also not been allowed […]