September 16, 2018
Defend the Defenders, September 16, 2018 Vietnam’s authorities will try democracy advocate Luu Van Vinh and his friends on allegation of subversion on October 5, his wife Nguyen Thi Thap has learned from a source from the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City. So far, his family and lawyer have not received notices from […]
September 9, 2018
Defend the Defenders, September 9, 2018 Vietnam’s authorities may bring pro-democracy campaigner Luu Van Vinh to court to try him on allegation of subversion in November, his wife Nguyen Thi Thap has told Defend the Defenders. Speaking to Defend the Defenders, Mrs. Thap said she learned the news from his lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng. In […]
May 22, 2018
Defend the Defenders, May 22, 2018 Authorities in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have extended the investigation period against human rights activist and democracy campaigner Luu Van Vinh for two additional months until July 13, his wife Le Thi Thap told Defend the Defenders. Mrs. Thap told Defend the Defenders that […]
May 13, 2018
Defend the Defeners, May 13, 2018 The detention of Vietnamese pro-democracy activist Luu Van Vinh by authorities of Ho Chi Minh City is arbitrary and demands for his release, states the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). In a letter titled “Opinion adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its eighty-first […]
May 13, 2018
Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền, ngày 13/5/2018 Việc bắt giữ nhà hoạt động dân chủ Lưu Văn Vịnh của chính quyền thành phố Hồ Chí Minh là độc đoán và ông cần được trả tự do ngay lập tức, Nhóm Công tác về Bắt giữ độc đoán của Liên Hợp quốc (UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention- WGAD) nói. Trong một […]
March 24, 2018
Defend the Defenders, March 24, 2018 The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City has rejected the proposal of the city’s Department of Public Security to prosecute pro-democracy campaigner Luu Van Vinh on allegation of subversion under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code. According to his wife Le Thi Thap, his lawyers were […]
December 25, 2017
By Defend the Defenders, December 25, 2017 Mr. Luu Van Vinh, who is in pre-trial detention on allegation of subversion, said he has been threatened by an inmate in the Chi Hoa temporary detention facility in Ho Chi Minh City. At a recent meeting with his wife, Mr. Vinh, who was arrested in June last […]
December 19, 2017
By Defend the Defenders, December 19, 2017 Ho Chi Minh City-based resident Nguyen Van Duc Do has claimed that he is wrongly arrested and charged with “Carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration” under Article 79 of Vietnam’s 1999 Penal Code. Do, who was arrested on November 6 last year when he visited […]
December 15, 2017
Defend the Defenders, December 15, 17 Human rights defender and pro-democracy activist Luu Van Vinh will face heavy sentence if he is convicted on allegation of subversion in a court in near future, according to his lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng. Lawyer Mieng said his client will be tried for Clause 1 of Article 79 of […]
November 14, 2017
By Defend the Defenders, November 13, 2017 Security forces in Ho Chi Minh say they completed an investigation against pro-democracy activist Luu Van Vinh after more than one year of incommunicado detention. The police said they handed the investigation results to the city’s People’s Procuracy and advised it to prosecute him on allegation of conducting […]
August 23, 2017
By Defend the Defenders, August 23, 2017 Vietnam’s authorities have extended the investigation period for second time for human rights defender Luu Van Vinh, who was arrested on November 6, 2017 and charged with “carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration” under Article 79 of the country’s Penal Code. In its letter dated […]
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October 5, 2018
Five Pro-democracy Campaigners Sentenced to Total 57 Years in Prison amid Intensified Crackdown on Dissent
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Luu Van Vinh, Nguyen Quoc Hoan, Nguyen Van Duc Do, Phan Trung (Lam Dong), Tu Cong Nghia
Defend the Defenders, October 5, 2018 The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City has convicted five pro-democracy campaigners namely Luu Van Vinh, Nguyen Van Duc Do, Nguyen Quoc Hoan, Phan Trung (Venerable Thich Nhat Hue) and Tu Cong Nghia on subversion allegation, sentencing them to a total 57 years in prison and 15 years […]