Disease-suffering activist Nguyen Van Tuc in his first-instance hearing on April 10, 2018
Defend the Defenders, November 9, 2018
Vietnam’s authorities have sent democracy campaigner and human rights defender Nguyen Van Tuc to Prison camp No. 6 in the central province of Nghe An, two months after rejecting his appeal.
His wife Bui Thi Re informed Defend the Defenders that on November 8 she went to visit him in the temporary detention facility under the authority of Thai Binh province’s Police Department where he had been held since being arrested in September last year, however, the facility’s authorities said he had been taken to Prison camp No. 6 to serve his sentence.
Mrs. Re said she will have to travel around 300 km from her native province of Thai Binh province to Prison camp No. 6 every month to visit him.
Mr. Tuc was arrested for the second time on September 1, 2017 and charged with subversion under Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code when he was the president of the unregistered group Brotherhood for Democracy. Nine years before the second detention, he was arrested and charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88, and later was sentenced to four years in prison.
In April this year, he was convicted by the People’s Court of Thai Binh province and sentenced to 13 years in prison and five years of probation, and in mid-September, the Higher People’s Court in Hanoi upheld the sentence.
It is unclear whether he can survive in prison given the poor living conditions in Vietnam’s prisons and inhumane treatments of prisons’ guards, especially for prisoners of conscience. Mr. Tuc has very bad hemorrhoids and he hasa lot of rectal bleeding.
Mr. Tuc is the 9th member of Brotherhood for Democracy being imprisoned this year. Eight of them, including its founder Nguyen Van Dai, were also convicted of subversion and sentenced to prison with jail terms of between seven and 15 years, and probation of between one and five years.
The London-based Amnesty Internationalhas listed Mr. Tuc among nearly 100 prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. The right group once called on Hanoi to drop the charges against Tuc and other activists of the Brotherhood for Democracy.Now!Campaign, a coalition of 14 domestic and international NGOs including Defend the Defenders, Civil Rights Defenders and Front Line Defenders, has also named him among over 250 prisoners of conscience.
Sending prisoners of conscience to prisons far from their families is a common practice of the Vietnamese communist regime in a bid to create additional difficulties for their relatives to conduct regular prison visits.
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November 9, 2018
Sentenced Democracy Campaigner Nguyen Van Tuc Sent to Prison Far from His Family
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Nguyen Van Tuc
Disease-suffering activist Nguyen Van Tuc in his first-instance hearing on April 10, 2018
Defend the Defenders, November 9, 2018
Vietnam’s authorities have sent democracy campaigner and human rights defender Nguyen Van Tuc to Prison camp No. 6 in the central province of Nghe An, two months after rejecting his appeal.
His wife Bui Thi Re informed Defend the Defenders that on November 8 she went to visit him in the temporary detention facility under the authority of Thai Binh province’s Police Department where he had been held since being arrested in September last year, however, the facility’s authorities said he had been taken to Prison camp No. 6 to serve his sentence.
Mrs. Re said she will have to travel around 300 km from her native province of Thai Binh province to Prison camp No. 6 every month to visit him.
Mr. Tuc was arrested for the second time on September 1, 2017 and charged with subversion under Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code when he was the president of the unregistered group Brotherhood for Democracy. Nine years before the second detention, he was arrested and charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88, and later was sentenced to four years in prison.
In April this year, he was convicted by the People’s Court of Thai Binh province and sentenced to 13 years in prison and five years of probation, and in mid-September, the Higher People’s Court in Hanoi upheld the sentence.
It is unclear whether he can survive in prison given the poor living conditions in Vietnam’s prisons and inhumane treatments of prisons’ guards, especially for prisoners of conscience. Mr. Tuc has very bad hemorrhoids and he hasa lot of rectal bleeding.
Mr. Tuc is the 9th member of Brotherhood for Democracy being imprisoned this year. Eight of them, including its founder Nguyen Van Dai, were also convicted of subversion and sentenced to prison with jail terms of between seven and 15 years, and probation of between one and five years.
The London-based Amnesty Internationalhas listed Mr. Tuc among nearly 100 prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. The right group once called on Hanoi to drop the charges against Tuc and other activists of the Brotherhood for Democracy.Now!Campaign, a coalition of 14 domestic and international NGOs including Defend the Defenders, Civil Rights Defenders and Front Line Defenders, has also named him among over 250 prisoners of conscience.
Sending prisoners of conscience to prisons far from their families is a common practice of the Vietnamese communist regime in a bid to create additional difficulties for their relatives to conduct regular prison visits.