TRỊNH Anh Tuấn aka Gió Lang Thang

Attacked Date:

April 22, 2015

Attacked By:

3 plain-cloth security policemen

Hanoi city

Injuries:

Head

Left arm

Hand

Body pain

(Got 10 stitches treatment)

Role:

Admin of For A Green Hanoi (Vì Một Hà Nội Xanh) on Facebook

Incident:

Early in the morning of April 22, Tuấn rode a motorbike to grocery to buy milk for his baby. When he passed a light traffic section of the street near Cổ Linh bloc of Long Biên district around 7:45AM, three well-built men on black Nouvo motorbikes accelerated toward him from behind, one kicked his hand, Tuấn was knocked out of his bike and fell to the ground. All three men jumped into Tuấn and beating, kicking, jumping on him crazily. They even used a brick to hit him on his head, causing injuries and bleeding. His left arm swollen, the palm of his hand got cuts.

After leaving, a few minutes later they sent a text to his cell phone saying: F. your mother, next time we will beat you to your mother's death.

Tuấn recognized these 3 guys were among the 10-15 plain-cloth security policemen group keep loitering around his house for over a month.

On Sunday April 19, the day of green-tree protest, they came to Tuấn's house around 5:00AM in the morning, forcing him come to their police station for a working session.

Photos and source:

Đoan Trang Facebook

NGUYỄN Viết Dũng aka Dũng Phi Hổ or Hoàng Tử Thuốc Lào

One of five environmental youth activists still in detention since April 12, 2015.

Age:

29 (born June 19, 1986)

Residence:

Trần Phú hamlet

Hậu Thành village

Yên Thành district

Nghệ An province

Family:

NGUYỄN Viết Hùng: Father, farmer

NGUYỄN Thị Diệu Hồng: Mother, farmer

NGUYỄN Thị Diệu Hằng: Sister

NGUYỄN Thị Ánh: Sister

NGUYỄN Thị Nguyệt: Sister

Background:

2004: 12th grade high school, elected to represent the school to compete "The Road to Olympia's Summit" competition and received 3rd place.

2004: He passed the selection exam to study at Hanoi Polytechnic University (Đại Học Bách Khoa Hà Nội) near the top  mark (29/30) and top of Nghệ An.

April 30, 2014: Dũng raised the Republic of Vietnam flag at his house, 5 security policemen detained him for a working session and kept watching his family ever since.

April 2, 2015: Dũng announced on his Facebook the forming of the Republican Party (Đảng Cộng Hoà) and the Military of the Republic of Vietnam Group (Nhóm Quân Lực Việt Nam Cộng Hoà). He appointed himself provisional chairman of the Repubican Party. He was also Admin of 2 Facebook pages: Đảng Cộng Hoà and Quân Lực Việt Nam Cộng Hoà. He profess peaceful struggle for freedom and democracy.

April 9, 2015: Dũng notified that he will join a peaceful protest against the cutting of green trees in Hanoi city and meeting his group's members aftermath.

April 12, 2015: Dũng and other 4 friends were arrested.

April 27, 2015: Security police came to his house (patents') confisticating a set of the Republic of Vietnam's uniform and a harddisk drive in his computer.

Arresting reason:

Disturbing public order (Article 245 of the Penal Code)

Detained Date:

April 12, 2015, Sunday

Around 11:00AM

5 activists were detained

Released Activists:

Released around 9:30PM April 14

LƯU Quang Pháp

TRẦN Hải Hoàng Anh

NGUYỄN Văn Thuỷ Nghĩa

LÊ Hưng (arrest at night Apr 12)

Activist Held for interrogating:

PHẠM Minh Đáp (Stand by You Club)

Mr. Đáp was released from the police station around 10:15PM of April 13, 2015.

Responsible Police Station:

No. 2 Tràng Thi precinct

Hoàn Kiếm district

Hanoi city

Incident:

The youths participated in a protest against the government cutting green trees in the city of Hanoi on Sunday April 12, 2015. They worn T-shirt with an emblem similar to one of the Republic of Vietnam's. They were peaceful.

Five of them were arrested and Mr. Đáp, owner of Stand by You Club teaching English free, was asked to report to the police station for a working session because of his relationship with Mr. TRẦN Hải Hoàng Anh.  

There was no legal document at all for the detaining. Security police issued the arrest warrant after 9 days of detaining Dũng, but back-dated April 13, 2015.

The T-shirts they wore have a yellow eagle on the left front chest, similar to the military emblem of the Republic of Vietnam. On its back has the V symbol and the sentence "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people". It seems that it comes from the movie V for Vendetta.

Contact:

NGUYỄN Thị Ánh

Dũng's younger sister

Thái Nguyên province

+84 (0) 98 287 2496

His father's +84 (0) 166 946 7239

His mother's +84 (0) 165 641 1565

Links and sources:

bit.ly/1bcq2t9

bit.ly/1Pc164u

bit.ly/1IZIoJ5

bit.ly/1ysk82q

Mộc Lan's Facebook

Photos:

Belongs to various activists in Vietnam

NGUYỄN Văn Tính

Detained Date:

April 12, 2015

Residence:

Hải Phòng province

Detained Location:

TRẦN Anh Kim's residence

Thái Bình province

Incident:

Around 8:00AM on April 12, 2015, Mr. Tính paid a visit to his friend, Mr. Kim, who recently released from jail for serving his full sentence as a political prisoner. Around 9:50AM, while Mr. Kim was preparing meal for his guest, suddenly about 20 security policemen appeared and took Mr. Tính away.

No information is on his whereabout and his safety.

Mr. Tính had stood up to form opposition party in the 1960s and was imprisoned for several years. In the 2000s, with democracy activist NGUYỄN Xuân Nghĩa, he held banner to protest corruption, requested transparency, democracy and human rights. He was arrested, sentenced and jailed again. He was released just a few years ago.

His health is in bad shape and his friends are very concerned about him.

TRƯƠNG Văn Dũng

Time:

Around 10:00AM 

April 9, 2015

Forced working session

Location:

Nam Đồng precinct police station

Đống Đa district

Hanoi city

Family:

Wife and daughter

HR and patriotic activities:

- Attended RightsCon forum in Philippines near the end of March 2015

- At Lý Thái Tổ Memorial Statue on March 14, 2015 to memorize 64 soldiers killed by China in 1988 to occupied some islands in Spratly

Incident:

Police sent him 3 letters asking him coming to their office for an interview about government opinion workers tried to obstruct the memorial event on March 14. Due to invitation, he preserved his rights of not going. But police forced him to appear anyway.

In the morning of April 9, while sitting at the coffee shop near his house, he was forced arrest to the police station.

Around 3:30PM, PHẠM Thanh Nghiên from Hải Phòng city got through with him by cell phone while in the police station and police ordered to stop. No phone pick up thereafter.

He told the friends if they can not contact him by phone that means he was in serious problem. He said that he will not answer the interrogation without the presence of his lawyer.

He was release around 7:00PM the same day

Contact:

Mr. Dũng cell phone
0973 090 713

Link:

bit.ly/1JsjZg7