December 17, 2018
Defend the Defenders, December17, 2018 The Higher People’s Court in Danang hasdecided to conductthe appeal hearing of Nguyen Trung Truc, the spokesman of the banned group Brotherhood for Democracy (BFD) on allegation of subversionon December 26, Defend the Defenders has learned. According to the court’s decision dated on December11, the appeal hearing willbe open […]
November 21, 2018
Defend the Defenders, November 21, 2018 The Higher People’s Court in Danang has postponed the appeal hearing of Nguyen Trung Truc, the spokesman of the banned group Brotherhood for Democracy (BFD) on allegation of subversion, Defend the Defenders has learned. According to the court’s decision dated on November 5, the appeal hearing was delayed in […]
September 12, 2018
Defend the Defenders, September 12, 2018 On September 12, the People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh convictedNguyen Trung Truc, the spokesman of the banned group Brotherhood for Democracy (BFD) on allegation of subversion. After the 3-hour trial, the court found Mr. Truc guilty of “carrying out activities aiming to overthrow the […]
August 30, 2018
Defend the Defenders, August 30, 2018 The People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh has re-scheduled the first-instance hearingagainst Nguyen Trung Truc, spokesman for the unsanctioned group Brotherhood for Democracy, on September 12. The trial will be held in Dong Hoi city, and is supposed to be open tothe public, according to […]
August 14, 2018
Defend the Defenders, August 14, 2018 The People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh has unexpectedly decided to postpone the trial against Nguyen Trung Truc, the spokesman of the unsanctioned group Brotherhood for Democracy which was set on August 17, said his lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng. The Ho Chi Minh City-based […]
August 3, 2018
Defend the Defenders, August 3, 2018 The People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh will hold a trial against Nguyen Trung Truc, spokesman for Brotherhood for Democracy, on allegation of subversion on August 17. Mr. Truc, 44, was arrested on August 4, 2017 and charged with “carrying out activities to overthrow the […]
April 12, 2018
Defend the Defenders, April 12, 2018 Nguyen Trung Truc, the spokesman of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy, has been held incommunicado since being detained on August 4 last year, said Saigon-based lawyer Nguyen Van Mieng, who was hired by the activist’s family to provide legal consultation for him. On April 12, lawyer Mieng submitted a […]
August 24, 2017
Defend the Defenders, August 24, 2017 Vietnam’s authorities have officially charged prominent human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 and “Carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration” under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code. His assistant Le Thu Ha is charged with the same allegation, […]
August 5, 2017
RFA, August 4, 2017 Authorities in central Vietnam’s Quang Binh province arrested a member of an online democracy advocacy group on Friday, bringing to five the number of group members taken into custody during the last week. Nguyen Trung Tuc, a former political prisoner and member of the online Brotherhood for Democracy group, was taken […]
August 4, 2017
By Defend the Defenders, August 4, 2017 Vietnam has continued its crackdown against Brotherhood for Democracy, arresting its Spokesman Nguyen Trung Truc after a mass detention on July 30. On August 4, security forces detained Mr. Truc at his home in the central province of Quang Binh and charged him with “Carrying out activities aimed […]
July 9, 2016
By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 9, 2016 On July 9, police forces in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An allegedly assaulted a group of eight activists from Quang Binh when they came to the province to attend a wedding party of a local pro-democracy activist. Arriving in Nghe An for the wedding party of Nguyen […]
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December 26, 2018
Vietnam Court Upholds Lengthy Sentence of BFD Spokesman Nguyen Trung Truc
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Trung Truc
Defend the Defenders, December 26, 2018 On December 26, the Higher People’s Court in Danang rejected the appeal of democracy activist Nguyen Trung Truc, upholding his sentence of 12 years in prison and five years of probation given by a lower court three months ago. In the so-called open appeal hearing which lasted several […]