Nguyen Nang Tinh

    Defend the Defenders, April 20, 2020   On April 20, the Higher People’s Court in Hanoi rejected the appeal of human rights activist and environmental campaigner Nguyen Nang Tinh, sending him back to jail amid international and domestic calls for releasing all prisoners of conscience to protect them from the COVID-19 outbreak. At […]

Defend the Defenders, March 14, 2020   The Higher People’s Court in Hanoi has postponed the appeal of jailed human rights activist and environmental campaigner Nguyen Nang Tinh scheduled on March 18 without giving an explanation. Mr. Tinh, 44, arrested by Nghe An province’s security forces on May 29, 2019 and charged with “conducting anti-state […]

  Defend the Defenders, March 7, 2020   The Higher People’s Court in Hanoi has decided to hold the appeal hearing of pro-democracy activist and environmentalist Nguyen Nang Tinh on March 18, four months after he was convicted of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Penal Code in the first-instance hearing carried out […]

Defend the Defenders, November 15, 2019   On November 11, the People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An found local pro-democracy college lecturer Nguyen Nang Tinh guilty of “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1, Article 117 of the […]

  Defend the Defenders, November 6, 2019   Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have decided to re-schedule the first-instance hearing on November 15 to try local pro-democracy activist Nguyen Nang Tinh on allegation of “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” […]

  Defend the Defenders, October 17, 2019    Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have suddenly postponed the first-instance hearing to try local pro-democracy activist Nguyen Nang Tinh on allegation of “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1, Article […]

  Defend the Defenders, October 9, 2019   Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have set to hold the first-instance hearing on October 17 to try local pro-democracy activist Nguyen Nang Tinh on allegation of “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” […]

Defend the Defenders, September 17, 2019   The Nghe An province’s Police Department said they have completed the investigation against local pro-democracy activist Nguyen Nang Tinh on allegation of “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Clause 1, Article 117 of the country’s […]

  Defend the Defenders, May 30, 2019   On May 29, security forces in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An arrested Mr. Nguyen Nang Tinh, a lecturer of the Nghe An College for Culture and Art, and charged him with “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist […]