Tran Vu Hai

November 15, 2019

Human Rights Lawyer Tran Vu Hai and His Wife Convicted of Tax Evasion, Sentenced to One-year Non-custodial Reform

by • Tran Vu Hai

  Defend the Defenders, November 15, 2019   On November 15, the People’s Court of Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province convicted human rights attorney Tran Vu Hai and his wife Ngo Tuyet Phuong and two local citizens of tax evasion under Article 161 of the 1999 Penal Code, Defend the Defenders has learned. The […]

October 30, 2019

Trial against Human Rights Lawyer Tran Vu Hai and His Wife on Tax Evasion Allegation Scheduled on November 13

by • Tran Vu Hai

Defend the Defenders, October 30, 2019   The People’s Court of Vietnam’s central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will hold the first-instance hearing on November 13 to try human rights attorney Tran Vu Hai and his wife Ngo Tuyet Phuong and two local citizens of tax evasion under Article 161 of the 1999 Penal Code, […]

October 9, 2019

Human Rights Lawyer Tran Vu Hai and His Wife Face Prosecution of Tax Evasion

by • Tran Vu Hai

Defend the Defenders, October 8, 2019   Vietnam’s state media has reported that the Khanh Hoa province’s Police Department has proposed the province’s People’s Procuracy to prosecute human rights attorney Tran Vu Hai and his wife Ngo Tuyet Phuong and two local citizens of tax evasion under Article 161 of the 1999 Penal Code. The […]

July 3, 2019

Well-known Vietnamese Human Rights Lawyer Probed for Involvement in Tax Evasion Case

by • Tran Vu Hai

Defend the Defenders, June 3, 2019 On July 2, authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa issued a decision to investigate prominent human rights lawyer Tran Vu Hai and his wife Ngo Tuyet Phuong for their involvement in a tax evasion case three years ago. According to the state media, the Investigation Agency under […]

November 28, 2015

Vietnam Human rights lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Luan attacked

by • Le Van Luan (lawyer), Tran Thu Nam, Tran Vu Hai

Lawyers for Lawyers | Nov 27, 2015 On 3 November 2015, human rights lawyers Mr Tran Thu Nam andMr Le Luan were attacked and beaten by eight masked men. L4Lhas reason to believe that Tran Thu Nam and Le Luan were targeted in connection to their legitimate activities as attorneys. When the eight masked men […]

November 16, 2015

Tense confrontation as lawyers challenge police

by • Le Van Luan (lawyer), Tran Thu Nam, Tran Vu Hai

Vietnam Right Now | Nov 14, 2015 A confrontation has escalated between police and human rights lawyers, who have taken up the case of a teenager who died from injuries sustained in police custody. The lawyers suffered a violent assault, and one was temporarily detained, after they tried to represent the mother of the youth, […]

November 14, 2015

Vietnamese Police Detain Lawyer Working on Case of Death-in-Custody Victim

by • Tran Vu Hai

RFA | Nov 12, 2015 A Vietnamese lawyer working on the case of a young man who died in police custody and the related harassment of two attorneys representing the boy’s family said he was illegally detained Wednesday by authorities in Hanoi, as he planned to visit the city’s police chief. Plainclothes police detained Tran […]