Tran Huynh Duy Thuc

Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc is shown at his trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Jan. 20, 2010. RFA, April 2, 2021 Jailed Vietnamese democracy activist Tran Huynh Duy Thuc has begun a new hunger strike, his third since October, aimed at reducing his 16-year sentence for subversion to five years in line […]

Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc is shown at his trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Jan. 20, 2010. RFA, January 14, 2021 A jailed Vietnamese democracy advocate has been hospitalized in failing health in Nghe An province after reaching the 50-day mark in a hunger strike launched to appeal for a reduction in […]

Defend the Defenders, December 2, 2020   Prominent democracy campaigner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who is serving his 16-year imprisonment in the Prison camp No. 6 in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An, has been on hunger strike for more than nine days, Defend the Defenders has learned. According to his family who visited him […]

Amnesty International, May 23, 2017 On the 8th anniversary of the arrest of POC Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức – and half way through his 16-year prison sentence – the Directors of 12 Amnesty International offices call for his immediate and unconditional release. The letter also calls on Viet Nam’s prison authorities to ensure that their […]

by Defend the Defenders, April 7, 2017 Authorities in Prison No. 6 of Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An continue their inhuman treatment against prominent political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who is serving a 16-year sentence on charges of trying to “overthrow the state” under Article 79 of the Penal Code. According to Mr. […]

Radio Free Asia, April 7, 2017 A Vietnamese activist jailed seven years ago for writing online articles criticizing government policies is suffering failing vision after being kept in a dark cell, family members said after visiting him in prison at the beginning of the month. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, 51, was convicted in 2010 on […]

Amnesty International, August 26, 2016 Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, a human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, serving a 16-year sentence has been transferred to a remote prison in northern Viet Nam. This is more than a full day’s drive from his family home. He is being subjected to ill-treatment treatment for his refusal to […]