September 27, 2020
Defend the Defenders, September 24, 2020 A number of prisoners of conscience in Xuan Loc Prison camp in the southern province of Dong Nai remain under additional punishment after a dispute with prison authorities in May this year, Defend the Defenders has learned. Currently, Mr. Nguyen Van Duc Do and Mr. Huynh Duc […]
November 16, 2018
Defend the Defenders, November 16, 2018 Jailed democracy campaigner and labor activist Nguyen Van Duc Do had been severely beaten by criminal inmates while being held in Chi Hoa temporary detention facility under authority of Ho Chi Minh City’s Police Department, Defend the Defenders has learned. Mr. Do, vice president of the unregistered Viet […]
October 5, 2018
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 23, 2016
The Indian Express, ngày 22/11/2016 (bản dịch của Vũ Quốc Ngữ) Hôm thứ 2, cơ quan giám sát nhân quyền của Liên Hợp quốc kêu gọi Việt Nam trả tự do cho ba người hoạt động nhân quyền, những người bị bắt giữ gần đây, và điều tra cáo buộc họ bị tra tấn trong […]
November 23, 2016
Communist Vietnam routinely silences dissent with activists subject to arbitrary detention and lengthy jail spells. The Indian Express, November 22, 2016 The United Nations human rights watchdog called on Vietnam on Monday to release three rights activists who were recently detained and investigate allegations the trio have been tortured in custody. Communist Vietnam routinely silences […]
November 23, 2016
Radio Free Asia, November 22, 2016 The United Nations human rights monitor for Southeast Asia called on Vietnam to release three rights advocates who were detained by the government and to investigate allegations that the trio were tortured while in custody. In its statement issued Tuesday, the U.N. Human Rights Office for Southeast Asia said […]
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March 25, 2021
Vietnam: Activist tortured, held in solitary confinement for over 300 days
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Van Duc Do
Amnesty International, March 23, 2031 23 March 2021, Index number: ASA 41/3878/2021 The Vietnamese authorities must immediately end their torture and other ill-treatment of political activist Nguyễn Văn Đức Độ and release him immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today. Nguyễn Văn Đức Độ is currently serving an 11-year sentence at Xuân Lộc prison in […]