We share the relief of Dinh Dang Dinh’s family”, FIDH President Karim Lahidji commented, adding that “nonetheless, the Vietnamese authorities should take a step further and order the permanent release of Dinh Dang Dinh, who was detained for the sole purpose of his human rights activities”.
Dinh Dang Dinh’s Family is unified after receiving Decision of temporary suspension to implementing the sentence
OMCT – Paris-Geneva, February 25, 2014.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), welcome the decision of the Vietnamese authorities to temporarily suspend the prison sentence of human rights defender Dinh Dang Dinh, who suffers from a terminal stomach cancer.
Dinh Dang Dinh is a prominent Vietnamese human rights activist and blogger who has especially campaigned for environmental rights. Arrested in October 2011, he was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in August 2012.
While serving his prison sentence in Phuoc prison, he was diagnosed with a stomach cancer metastasised to his lymph nodes. Since January 2014, he has been treated in the Oncology Hospital of Saigon, but was kept under constant surveillance.
On the evening of February 15, 2014, he was informed by the authorities about their decision to suspend the implementation of his prison sentence for 12 months. “Although he is not exempted from the sentence which aimed at silencing dissident bloggers, we and our three daughters [now] have opportunity to take care of him”, said his wife Dang Thi Dinh.
“We share the relief of Dinh Dang Dinh’s family”, FIDH President Karim Lahidji commented, adding that “nonetheless, the Vietnamese authorities should take a step further and order the permanent release of Dinh Dang Dinh, who was detained for the sole purpose of his human rights activities”.
“Dinh Dang Dinh should never have been detained at the first place. It can now only be hoped that the Vietnamese authorities will start to take concrete measures to stop the repression of human rights defenders, including by abolishing the armada of broadly defined speech and national security offences that are used against dissent voices and defenders”, OMCT Secretary General Gerald Staberock urged today.
“We welcome this decision”, said VCHR President Vo Van Ai. “But in order to merit its seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Vietnam should fully release Dinh Dang Dinh and all other human rights defenders detained for their peaceful actions to promote and protect human rights”.
Our organisations reiterate their call on the Vietnamese authorities to ensure in all circumstances that human rights defenders are able to carry out their legitimate activities without any hindrance and fear of reprisals, in line with the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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February 26, 2014
Viet Nam: Dinh Dang Dinh’s prison sentence suspended for 12 months
by Nhan Quyen • Dinh Dang Dinh
Dinh Dang Dinh’s Family is unified after receiving Decision of temporary suspension to implementing the sentence
OMCT – Paris-Geneva, February 25, 2014.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), welcome the decision of the Vietnamese authorities to temporarily suspend the prison sentence of human rights defender Dinh Dang Dinh, who suffers from a terminal stomach cancer.
Dinh Dang Dinh is a prominent Vietnamese human rights activist and blogger who has especially campaigned for environmental rights. Arrested in October 2011, he was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in August 2012.
While serving his prison sentence in Phuoc prison, he was diagnosed with a stomach cancer metastasised to his lymph nodes. Since January 2014, he has been treated in the Oncology Hospital of Saigon, but was kept under constant surveillance.
On the evening of February 15, 2014, he was informed by the authorities about their decision to suspend the implementation of his prison sentence for 12 months. “Although he is not exempted from the sentence which aimed at silencing dissident bloggers, we and our three daughters [now] have opportunity to take care of him”, said his wife Dang Thi Dinh.
“We share the relief of Dinh Dang Dinh’s family”, FIDH President Karim Lahidji commented, adding that “nonetheless, the Vietnamese authorities should take a step further and order the permanent release of Dinh Dang Dinh, who was detained for the sole purpose of his human rights activities”.
“Dinh Dang Dinh should never have been detained at the first place. It can now only be hoped that the Vietnamese authorities will start to take concrete measures to stop the repression of human rights defenders, including by abolishing the armada of broadly defined speech and national security offences that are used against dissent voices and defenders”, OMCT Secretary General Gerald Staberock urged today.
“We welcome this decision”, said VCHR President Vo Van Ai. “But in order to merit its seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Vietnam should fully release Dinh Dang Dinh and all other human rights defenders detained for their peaceful actions to promote and protect human rights”.
Our organisations reiterate their call on the Vietnamese authorities to ensure in all circumstances that human rights defenders are able to carry out their legitimate activities without any hindrance and fear of reprisals, in line with the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.