November 19, 2016
Vietnam Activist Says He Was Tortured in Eight Hours in Police Station
By Defend the Defenders, November 18, 2016 Vu Dat Phong, an activist in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa, has claimed that he was tortured by police officers during a recent eight-hour detention by the local police. At around 3PM on November 15, a group of five police officers and two plainclothes agents detained Phong […]
April 17, 2020
Vietnamese Police Harass Many Activists, Confiscating Their Personnel Items amid COVID-19 Pandemic
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Quoc Hien, Truong Thi Ha, Vo Ngoc Luc, Vu Dat Phong
Defend the Defenders, April 16, 2020 Authorities in Vietnam’s central provinces of Khanh Hoa, Quang Binh, Dak Lak and Dak Nong have harassed three local activists while placing them under quarantine related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Defend the Defenders has learned. Ms. Truong Thi Ha reported that police in Quang Binh confiscated […]