LÊ Văn Luân

Bloodily injured by undercover mob attack

Profession:

Lawyer (on human rights issues)

Date and time:

November 3, 2015

around 2:30PM

Location:

Đông Cựu hamlet

Đông Phương Yên village

Chương Mỹ district

Hanoi city

Incident:

On the afternoon of Nov. 3, 2015, lawyer Luân and lawyer Nam came to the house of their client, Mrs. ĐỖ Thị Mai, mother of ĐỖ Đăng Dư, a  17-year old teenager recently died in the police station in Hanoi.

Seeing these lawyers, two village security men ĐỖ Trọng Sáu and ĐỖ Huy Mẫn made reporting calls to their higher echelon.

Moment later, upon leaving Mrs. Mai's house approximately 100 meters afar, both lawyers were under attacked by around 8 face-covered motorcycle mobsters, they blocked the front of the lawyers' car, opened car doors and attacked, 5 of them attacked lawyer Luân, the other 3 attacked lawyer Nam.

Both lawyers ran down to the rice field but they were chasing after. Lawyer Luân was beaten and injured on his left eye. Lawyer Nam injuries are even worse. According to lawyer Nam's medical examination report: the X-ray shows broken nose, injured eyes and coronary sinus, need hospitalizing to follow up on possible brain damage.

Lawyer Luân later came back to the crime scene for working out a police report and recognized one of the beaters wearing security uniform of Đông Phương Yên village, Chương Mỹ district. His name is Cửu. 

A few days before the attack, on his Facebook, lawyer Nam notified that Hanoi's investigative security created obstacles, made difficulties, hinders their professional service to their client.

Links:

http://on.fb.me/1Mv8u75

bit.ly/1NoauTQ

bit.ly/1HozOCL

TRẦN Thu Nam

Bloodily injured by undercover mob attack

Profession:

Lawyer (on human rights issues)

Date:

November 3, 2015

Location:

Đông Cựu hamlet

Đông Phương Yên village

Chương Mỹ district

Hanoi city

Incident:

On the afternoon of Nov. 3, 2015, lawyer Nam and lawyer Luân came to the house of his client, Mrs. ĐỖ Thị Mai, mother of ĐỖ Đăng Dư, a  17-year old teenager recently died in the police station in Hanoi.

Seeing lawyer Nam, two village security men ĐỖ Trọng Sáu and ĐỖ Huy Mẫn make reporting calls to their higher echelon.

Moment later, upon leaving Mrs. Mai's house approximately 100 meters afar, both lawyers were under attacked by around 8 face-covered motorcycle mobsters, they blocked the front of the lawyers' car, opened car doors and attacked, 5 of them attacked lawyer Luân, the other 3 attacked lawyer Nam.

Both lawyers ran down to the rice field but they were chasing after. Lawyer Luân was beaten and injured on his left eye. Lawyer Nam injuries are even worse. According to lawyer Nam's medical examination report: the X-ray shows broken nose, injured eyes and coronary sinus, need hospitalizing to follow up on possible brain damage.

Lawyer Luân later came back to the crime scene for working out a police report and recognized one of the beaters wearing security uniform of Đông Phương Yên village, Chương Mỹ district. His name is Cửu.

A few days before the attack, on his Facebook, Mr. Nam notified that Hanoi's investigative security created obstacles, made difficulties, hinders his service to his client.

Links:

http://on.fb.me/1Mv8u75

bit.ly/1NoauTQ

bit.ly/1HozOCL

ĐỖ Đăng Dư

Born:

1998 (17-year old)

Died:

October 10, 2015

Security police torture is suspected

Residence:

Đông Cựu hamlet

Đông Phương Yên village

Chương Mỹ district

Hà Nội city

Relatives:

ĐỖ Thị Mai: mother

ĐỖ Thị Tuyết: aunt

Jailing Station:

Xa La prison

Hà Đông district

Hà Nội city

Incident:

On August 5, 2015 Dư was suspected to steal 2 million Vietnam đồng ($90 US dollars) from his neighbor's house and was arrested.

Mrs Mai, Dư's mother, said the neighbors beat him and called the village security. Mrs Mai appealed to pay the neighbors back in full, but they said that they have to turn him over to the security for punishment.

The village security turned him over to the district security and the family could not contact him thereafter. The family haven't received any government paper, or any temporary arrest order.

After 2 months of jailing, on October 4, 2015, a security agent named Dũng made a phone call to the family, asking them come to the Bạch Mai hospital to meet Dư immediately. Family went to the 4th floor of the hospital and saw Dư in the extremely critical condition. His body has many swollen spots and blood-purple severe injuries. The doctor said his internal organs were badly damaged and the brain swelling. Mrs Mai confirmed that Dư was in excellent health when he was arrested.

The law stated that the temporary holding period is 9 days. After that, the suspect is either prosecuted or released. Temporary holding paper must be issued to family with reason for holding. In Dư's case, it isn't necessary for holding him.

Dư was in coma and died at 6:10PM October 10, 2015.

According to Vietnam's government source (the Ministry of Public Security) in 3-year period, there were 260 peoples died in police stations while they were held temporarily (bit.ly/1FYixoH).

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_pnHGfFJY&sns=em

Trần Anh Kim

Arrest:

September 21, 2015 in Thái Bình province

Former career: 

Former Lieutenant Colonel of The People Army of Vietnam

Family:

NGUYỄN Thị Thơm (wife)

Activities:

Forming a political organization named Lực Lượng Quốc Dân Dựng Cờ Dân Chủ (National People Force To Raise The Democracy Flag)

Nguyễn Hữu An

Arrest:

September 2, 2015

Lê Vũ Đài

Land-lost farmer

Residence:

Tiền Hải district

Thái Bình province

Born:

1989

Work:

At a paper production company in Thanh Hóa province, in technical department.

Status:

Missing without trace since September 2, 2015.

Activities:

Mr Đài rallied about 100 land-lost farmers in Thái Bình province to request compensation and to complain about corruption.

Professor ĐINH Kim Phúc

Detained by Tân Sơn Nhất airport security upon returning from U.S. on flight number CI 781 of China Airlines departed from Taipei, arriving Vietnam at 9:50AM Saturday May 23, 2015.

Prof. Phúc is a scholar on South China Sea. While in U.S., he was working hard to learn more about international laws and practices for resolving sea disputes. He publicly exchanged viewpoints with Vietnamese-Americans on the South China Sea's dispute.

Prof. Phúc didn't venture into politics, he only focused on legal aspects of the sea dispute - a typical patriotic scholar.

He is the first Vietnamese scholar who can publicly mingle with the Vietnamese-Americans in Southern California and in Houston, Texas.

Detaining him, the Vietnam's security police is acting against the goodwill of Vietnamese and the Vietnamese-Americans.

NGUYỄN Chí Tuyến (blogger Anh Chí)

Status:

Beaten up and serious injuries 

Date and Time:

May 11, 2015

At 7:30AM

Location:

Ngọc Thuỵ street

Long Biên district

Hà Nội city

Responsible police station:

Long Biên district police

Colonel VŨ Văn Hùng, police chief

Incident:

At 7:30AM on May 11, 2015 Tuyến was taking his child to school, he was stopped and attacked by 5 masked men. They used metal tubes to strike on his head and body, causing serious injuries. He was unconscious. Regaining consciousness later, he called for help. Hearing this sad news, some activists of "Vì Một Hà Nội Xanh" (For A Green Hanoi) called emergency ambulance to rush him to the hospital. He got 6 stitches on his head.

Medical record describes: "Blood are all over face and clothes... area on top of the head has the broken bird-leg-shape cuts, 6cm long, bleeding... Injured spots on the soft part of the face area... Many purple spots in the face area, swollen..." His arms and legs were also beaten with multiple injured spots.

Activities:

Tuyến is a peaceful activist in the movement to protect green trees against the government cutting down program. He was one of the leaders of many peaceful protests in Hanoi. He also has been a protector of students who were harassed by security police and school administrators (under government orders to do so).

He was the one to read the tree-condolence statement at the vigil night of March 22, 2015.

He is a member of the soccer team No-U Club since the establishment. 

He was threaten and harassed many times by security police with dozen policemen surrounding his house to stop him from going out to participating the protests.

Once, he was distributing free T-shirts with logo "Tôi Yêu Cây" (I Love Trees) to students on the Hoàn Kiếm lake's bank and the security police used loud speaker calling his name to intimidate.

 

Links:

bit.ly/1KXmiZA

https://www.facebook.com/N.AnhChi

Sources:

Vietnamrightnow

Đoan Trang's Facebook

Anh Chí's Facebook

Ngô Duy Quyền Facebook

Others

MAI Phuơng Thảo aka Thảo Teresa

Detained:

May 6, 2015

Detained Location:

3/111 Giáp Bát (her house)

Holding Location:

Hoàng Mai district police station

No. 4, Bùi Huy Bích quarter

Hoàng Mai district

Hanoi City

Responsible security policemen:

TRẦN Văn Tỉnh: Chief, +84 (0)90 866 6998

CÔNG Nghĩa Thục: Deputy, +84 (0)91 323 2358

BÙI Ngọc An: Deputy, +84 (0)91 320 2462

NGUYỄN Tuấn Văn: Deputy, +84 (0)98 313 6886

NGUYỄN Văn Tâm: Deputy, +84 (0)91 351 2708 

Reason for detaining:

Participating in peaceful protests for human rights, farmers' rights, green trees protection. The implied reason is to stop her while she was on her way to the U.S. Embassy for a meeting with U.S. human rights delegation visiting Vietnam.

Current situation:

Security police released her in the afternoon of May 6th.