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
