By Vu Quoc Ngu | Apr 04, 2015
Ha Nam province-based activist Tran Thi Nga, a member of the unsanctioned The Vietnam Women for Human Rights, was kidnapped and severely beaten by local security agents on March 31 when she tried to go to Hanoi where she was invited to meet foreign legislators who attended the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132).
In Tuesday’s early morning, numerous policemen and plainclothes agents gathered to Ms. Nga’s private house in the northern province of Ha Nam, about 60 kilometers from the capital city of Hanoi. They threatened her, asking her not to go out.
However, Nga was determined and she, together with two small boys somehow succeed to take a bus to Hanoi. Some police officers followed her and they took her to a 16-seat car and drove back to Ha Nam.
On the way to return to Ha Nam, police officers beat her in the car in the witness of her two children. They also confiscated her items, including cell phones.
The kidnappers freed her when they arrived in Ha Nam. Later, a police officer from the ward where she resides, came and give back the cell phones and other items.
Ms. Nga is well-known labor activist in Vietnam. She has also attended in a number of demonstrations against China’s invasions in the East Sea as well as protested the government’s persecution against local dissent.
She was violently attacked by thugs in a number of cases. Last May, she was beaten with broken leg and other serious injuries.
Along participating in the five-day event, legislators from other countries, including Sweden, Germany and the U.S. held meetings with local unsanctioned civil organizations and activists to learn more about the real human rights situation in the communist nation.
Vietnam’s security forces dont want foreign guests to meet local activists and blocked a number of them from going to the meetings, however, a number of them still overcame to attend and meet with legislators from the U.S., Germany and Sweden in Hanoi.
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April 4, 2015
Vietnam Human Rights Defender Kidnapped, Beaten on Her Way to Meet Foreign Lawmakers
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga)
The kidnappers freed her when they arrived in Ha Nam. Later, a police officer from the ward where she resides, came and give back the cell phones and other items.
By Vu Quoc Ngu | Apr 04, 2015
Ha Nam province-based activist Tran Thi Nga, a member of the unsanctioned The Vietnam Women for Human Rights, was kidnapped and severely beaten by local security agents on March 31 when she tried to go to Hanoi where she was invited to meet foreign legislators who attended the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-132).
In Tuesday’s early morning, numerous policemen and plainclothes agents gathered to Ms. Nga’s private house in the northern province of Ha Nam, about 60 kilometers from the capital city of Hanoi. They threatened her, asking her not to go out.
However, Nga was determined and she, together with two small boys somehow succeed to take a bus to Hanoi. Some police officers followed her and they took her to a 16-seat car and drove back to Ha Nam.
On the way to return to Ha Nam, police officers beat her in the car in the witness of her two children. They also confiscated her items, including cell phones.
The kidnappers freed her when they arrived in Ha Nam. Later, a police officer from the ward where she resides, came and give back the cell phones and other items.
Ms. Nga is well-known labor activist in Vietnam. She has also attended in a number of demonstrations against China’s invasions in the East Sea as well as protested the government’s persecution against local dissent.
She was violently attacked by thugs in a number of cases. Last May, she was beaten with broken leg and other serious injuries.
Along participating in the five-day event, legislators from other countries, including Sweden, Germany and the U.S. held meetings with local unsanctioned civil organizations and activists to learn more about the real human rights situation in the communist nation.
Vietnam’s security forces dont want foreign guests to meet local activists and blocked a number of them from going to the meetings, however, a number of them still overcame to attend and meet with legislators from the U.S., Germany and Sweden in Hanoi.