By HK, April 11, 2017
Police in Ky Anh district in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh have prosecuted the criminal case in which hundreds of people blocking traffic on the National Highway 1A will face charge of “causing public disorder,” state media reported on April 10.
About 100 people blocked the highway section through Con Pass a week ago with fishing nets, bricks and stones, holding up thousands of vehicles, the government said in a statement dated April 9.
The protest at the town of Ky Anh was against the steel factory being built by the Formosa Hung Nghiep Steel Company, an unit of the Taiwanese Formosa Plastics Corp.
The $11 billion Ha Tinh plant last year spilled toxic waste that polluted more than 200 km (125 miles) of the central coast, sparking a wave of protests not seen during four decades of Communist Party rule.
Speaking at a meeting of the police units on April 10, Minister of Public Security To Lam has asked his subordinates to resolutely prevent the reoccurrences of “large crowd gathering and national highway blocking” as happened in central Vietnam recently. He called for timely handling of such cases, especially targeting those who also protest and pass on anti-state propaganda.
In an op-ed published on April 10, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Vietnam People’s Army, called for strict punishment of those taking advantage of religion to carry out ill ploys.
The height of these ploys was the mobilization of Catholics in the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh to block National Highway 1A, attack local authorities and cause disorder at the Loc Ha district People’s Committee in February and April, the article noted, condemning the priests, Viet Tan terrorist elements, and extremist Catholics for such behaviors.
Earlier on April 6, Vietnamese police launched a prosecution against Nguyen Van Hoa, a 22-year-old man who has been detained since February for making news about environmental pollution and the local protests against Formosa plant.
Colonel Nguyen Tien Nam, deputy director of the Ha Tinh police, said Mr. Hoa, a “Viet Tan element,” was charged with “abusing democratic freedom to to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens” per Article 258 of the Penal Code.
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April 11, 2017
Vietnam Police Begin Prosecuting Anti-Formosa Protesters on National Highway 1A
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
By HK, April 11, 2017
Police in Ky Anh district in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh have prosecuted the criminal case in which hundreds of people blocking traffic on the National Highway 1A will face charge of “causing public disorder,” state media reported on April 10.
About 100 people blocked the highway section through Con Pass a week ago with fishing nets, bricks and stones, holding up thousands of vehicles, the government said in a statement dated April 9.
The protest at the town of Ky Anh was against the steel factory being built by the Formosa Hung Nghiep Steel Company, an unit of the Taiwanese Formosa Plastics Corp.
The $11 billion Ha Tinh plant last year spilled toxic waste that polluted more than 200 km (125 miles) of the central coast, sparking a wave of protests not seen during four decades of Communist Party rule.
Speaking at a meeting of the police units on April 10, Minister of Public Security To Lam has asked his subordinates to resolutely prevent the reoccurrences of “large crowd gathering and national highway blocking” as happened in central Vietnam recently. He called for timely handling of such cases, especially targeting those who also protest and pass on anti-state propaganda.
In an op-ed published on April 10, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Vietnam People’s Army, called for strict punishment of those taking advantage of religion to carry out ill ploys.
The height of these ploys was the mobilization of Catholics in the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh to block National Highway 1A, attack local authorities and cause disorder at the Loc Ha district People’s Committee in February and April, the article noted, condemning the priests, Viet Tan terrorist elements, and extremist Catholics for such behaviors.
Earlier on April 6, Vietnamese police launched a prosecution against Nguyen Van Hoa, a 22-year-old man who has been detained since February for making news about environmental pollution and the local protests against Formosa plant.
Colonel Nguyen Tien Nam, deputy director of the Ha Tinh police, said Mr. Hoa, a “Viet Tan element,” was charged with “abusing democratic freedom to to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens” per Article 258 of the Penal Code.