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.

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