Mr. A Lu three months ago when he visited prison’s cellmates in northern region
Mr. A Lu or Oi Hngen, 64, from Pley Rbai village, Iapiar commune, Phu Thien district and his wife are scattering in forest in border areas between Vietnam and Cambodia, said former political prisoner Nguyen Xuan Nghia from Haiphong, who has contacted with the husband in recent days.
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Sept 09, 2015
Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands of Gia Lai have been chasing a couple from Jarai ethnic minority, forcing them to hide in forest for about two weeks.
Mr. A Lu or Oi Hngen, 64, from Pley Rbai village, Iapiar commune, Phu Thien district and his wife are scattering in forest in border areas between Vietnam and Cambodia, said former political prisoner Nguyen Xuan Nghia from Haiphong, who has contacted with the husband in recent days.
Mr. Lu, a follower of Protestant sect or Degar, is a former prisoner of conscience. In 2004, he was arrested after taking part in protests demanding for freedom of religions and land. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison but released after 6 years in 2010. His son, who was also convicted of conducting activities to “undermining the unity policy,” is serving ten-year imprisonment in Thai Nguyen.
After being released five years ago, he is under close monitoring and brutal harassing of local authorities.
On June 14, he was detained after visiting some activists, including former political prisoners Nguyen Van Dai in Hanoi and Mr. Nghia in Haiphong to ask for financial support (You can obtain information on the detention here: www.vietnamhumanrightsdefenders.net/2015/06/17/former-vietnamese-prisoner-of-conscience-in-central-highlands-arrested-tortured/).
He was released after one month but placed under surveillance. He and his wife were regularly summoned by communal police to their office for interrogation.
Lu was demanded by local authorities to stay indoor, not allowed to go to forest field to grow crop although he is the key labor of his family.
On August 28, he went to his field to help his wife and policemen came to arrest him. In order to avoid being detained, he and his wife ran into the forest where they met some others who were also trying to run away from the country. The group decided to go to Cambodia to seek for political asylum, and headed to the border with Cambodia.
Their group was chased by Vietnamese authorities who shot to dead the guide and others. A Lu and his wife ran away but they get lost in the forest.
The couple cannot go further because they have no money. They don’t want to go back to their village, fearing of being tortured.
He is seeking help from other activists as well as foreign embassies.
The latest information from his village was that police came to his house and took away all clothes of the couple in a bid to prevent someone to help the couple.
Meanwhile, numerous people from ethnic minorities have been fleeing to Cambodia from the Vietnamese Central Highlands, according to foreign media. Few of them have been granted asylum status and most of them have been deported by Cambodia’s authorities.
Ethnic minorities in Vietnam have been subjects of local authorities’ suppression. They have been protesting to demand for freedom of religion and rights for land as the Kinh majority have been grabbing their land since the communists took over the southern part of the country to unify the nation in 1975.
Many of people from ethnic minorities have been held in prison, said former prisoners of conscience Le Quoc Quan and Nghia.
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September 9, 2015
Former Prisoner of Conscience in Gia Lai Chased by Local Police, Hiding in Forest for Weeks
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Mr. A Lu three months ago when he visited prison’s cellmates in northern region
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Sept 09, 2015
Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands of Gia Lai have been chasing a couple from Jarai ethnic minority, forcing them to hide in forest for about two weeks.
Mr. A Lu or Oi Hngen, 64, from Pley Rbai village, Iapiar commune, Phu Thien district and his wife are scattering in forest in border areas between Vietnam and Cambodia, said former political prisoner Nguyen Xuan Nghia from Haiphong, who has contacted with the husband in recent days.
Mr. Lu, a follower of Protestant sect or Degar, is a former prisoner of conscience. In 2004, he was arrested after taking part in protests demanding for freedom of religions and land. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison but released after 6 years in 2010. His son, who was also convicted of conducting activities to “undermining the unity policy,” is serving ten-year imprisonment in Thai Nguyen.
After being released five years ago, he is under close monitoring and brutal harassing of local authorities.
On June 14, he was detained after visiting some activists, including former political prisoners Nguyen Van Dai in Hanoi and Mr. Nghia in Haiphong to ask for financial support (You can obtain information on the detention here: www.vietnamhumanrightsdefenders.net/2015/06/17/former-vietnamese-prisoner-of-conscience-in-central-highlands-arrested-tortured/).
He was released after one month but placed under surveillance. He and his wife were regularly summoned by communal police to their office for interrogation.
Lu was demanded by local authorities to stay indoor, not allowed to go to forest field to grow crop although he is the key labor of his family.
On August 28, he went to his field to help his wife and policemen came to arrest him. In order to avoid being detained, he and his wife ran into the forest where they met some others who were also trying to run away from the country. The group decided to go to Cambodia to seek for political asylum, and headed to the border with Cambodia.
Their group was chased by Vietnamese authorities who shot to dead the guide and others. A Lu and his wife ran away but they get lost in the forest.
The couple cannot go further because they have no money. They don’t want to go back to their village, fearing of being tortured.
He is seeking help from other activists as well as foreign embassies.
The latest information from his village was that police came to his house and took away all clothes of the couple in a bid to prevent someone to help the couple.
Meanwhile, numerous people from ethnic minorities have been fleeing to Cambodia from the Vietnamese Central Highlands, according to foreign media. Few of them have been granted asylum status and most of them have been deported by Cambodia’s authorities.
Ethnic minorities in Vietnam have been subjects of local authorities’ suppression. They have been protesting to demand for freedom of religion and rights for land as the Kinh majority have been grabbing their land since the communists took over the southern part of the country to unify the nation in 1975.
Many of people from ethnic minorities have been held in prison, said former prisoners of conscience Le Quoc Quan and Nghia.