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.