March 19, 2021
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, March 19, 2021 The Higher People’s Court in Hanoi has scheduled to hold the appeal hearing of democracy activist and human rights defender Tran Duc Thach on March 24, three months after he was convicted of subversion under Article 109 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to 12 years in […]
December 15, 2020
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, December 15, 2020 On December 15, the People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An convicted try local human rights defender and democracy fighter Tran Duc Thach on allegation of subversion under Article 109 of the Criminal Code, sentencing him to 12 years in prison and three years of […]
December 12, 2020
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, December 12, 2020 The People’s Court of Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An has rescheduled the first-instance hearing to try local human rights defender and democracy fighter Tran Duc Thach on allegation of subversion under Article 109 of the Criminal Code on December 15. Initially, the trial was set on November […]
December 3, 2020
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, December 2, 2020 On November 30, the People’s Court of Nghe An province unexpectedly suspended the first-instance hearing against local democracy campaigner and human rights activist Tran Duc Thach on allegation of subversion under Article 109 of the Criminal Code due to his poor health, Defend the Defenders has learned. In […]
November 19, 2020
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, November 19, 2020 The authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have scheduled to hold the first-instance hearing on November 30 to try local activist Tran Duc Thach on allegation of subversion under Article 109 of the country’s Criminal Code. According to his lawyer Ha Huy Son, the trial will […]
April 23, 2020
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, April 23, 2020 While the whole country is focusing on dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, Vietnam’s communist regime does not forget to cement its political monopoly by intensifying its crackdown on local dissent, arresting the third activist within two weeks. This time, its prey is former prisoner of conscience Tran […]
December 21, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • Pham Van Troi, Tran Duc Thach, YQuynh
By Defend the Defenders, December 21, 2016 Vietnam’s communist government has continued its crackdown against local dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders one week after sending two pro-democracy activists to jail. On late night of Monday [December 19], Hanoi’s authorities deployed around 30 plainclothes police officers to attack the private residence of former political […]
December 15, 2016
by Nhan Quyen • Le Anh Hung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Tran Duc Thach, Vu Quoc Ngu
By Defend the Defenders, December 15, 2016 Authorities in many Vietnamese localities have been deploying local security forces to the private residence of activists, putting them under de facto house arrest one day prior to the open trial against two pro-democracy campaigners, the victims have complained on social networks. Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer […]
November 4, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Tran Duc Thach
By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 4, 2015 Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have constantly been harassing a local political dissident, terroring his family by throwing bricks and stones to his house, the victim has complained. Mr. Tran Duc Thach, 63-year old writer and poet, said the lives of his family’s members are […]
October 23, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Le Bich Vuong, Nguyen Lan Thang, Nguyen The Trung, Tran Duc Thach
By Vu Quoc Ngu, October 23, 2015 A group of Vietnamese pro-government supporters on Friday afternoon assaulted Mrs. Le Bich Vuong, the wife of Hanoi-based blogger and photographer Nguyen Lan Thang afternoon of Friday when the couple were in a local kindergarten to pick up their baby. Dozens of communist party supporters gathered at the […]
October 22, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Nguyen Lan Thang, Nguyen The Trung, Tran Duc Thach
By Vu Quoc Ngu, October 22, 2015 A group of about thirty Vietnamese pro-government activists in Hanoi on October 21 brutally attacked a local pro-democracy activist and threatened the family of a well-known blogger. The group, led by army veteran Tran Nhat Quang and young communist Do Anh Minh gathered in the front of the […]
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March 25, 2021
Vietnam Court Upholds Lengthy Sentence of Poet Dissident Tran Duc Thach, Sending Him Back to Prison
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Duc Thach
Defend the Defenders, March 24, 2021 On Wednesday, the Higher People’s Court in Hanoi rejected the appeal of democracy campaigner and poet dissident Tran Duc Thach, upheld the 12-year imprisonment followed by three years of probation on charge of subversion under Article 109 of the country’s Criminal Code. The appeal hearing lasted less than […]