By Defend the Defenders, November 05, 2016
Police in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on November 5 detained human rights activist Truong Minh Tam in a bid to prevent him from attending the final examination of a bachelor law course at the Vietnam’s Judicial Academy.
A group of security officers detained him near the academy at noon prior to the start of the examination and later deported him to his home province of Ha Nam, around 70 km from the capital city, said Tam, a former prisoner of conscience and member of the Vietnam Pathway Movement, a pro-democracy group which strives to promote human rights understanding among Vietnamese.
Police said they detained him to question the activist about his travel to the central province of Ninh Tuan last month. They released Tam in late afternoon when the examination ended, the victim said, adding the purpose of the detention was related to his examination.
Tam, who was imprisoned in 2013-2014 in a politically-motivated case, is the third activist facing harassment in their education in the past few years.
Last month, authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa pressured Hong Duc University not to allow pro-democracy activist Nguyen Van Trang (Facebooker Trang Nguyen) to graduate from the university’s Science and Technology faculty.
Last year, human rights activist Pham Le Vuong Cac was troubled during enrolment in a Hanoi-based law university as the university did not want to accept him under pressure of police. However, Cac did not give up and later he was admitted to study there.
Since being released in October 2014, Tam has been actively involved in democracy and human rights advocacy works. In 2015, he went to the U.S. to participate in a hearing of the Congress to report on the situation of prisoners of conscience in detention facilities in Vietnam.
In late April, he and former political prisoner Chu Manh Son traveled to the central coastal region to cover news on the environmental catastrophe caused by the discharge of very hazardous industrial waste by the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in which hundreds of tons of aquatic species died in April-May. They were detained and tortured by police.
He has been suppressed many times by Vietnam’s authorities, suffering from arbitrary detentions, torture, assaults and robberies. (For suppressions on Mr. Tam: /category/truong-minh-tam/ )
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November 6, 2016
Vietnam Police Detain Human Rights Activist to Prevent Him from Attending Law Course Final Examination
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Truong Minh Tam
By Defend the Defenders, November 05, 2016
Police in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on November 5 detained human rights activist Truong Minh Tam in a bid to prevent him from attending the final examination of a bachelor law course at the Vietnam’s Judicial Academy.
A group of security officers detained him near the academy at noon prior to the start of the examination and later deported him to his home province of Ha Nam, around 70 km from the capital city, said Tam, a former prisoner of conscience and member of the Vietnam Pathway Movement, a pro-democracy group which strives to promote human rights understanding among Vietnamese.
Police said they detained him to question the activist about his travel to the central province of Ninh Tuan last month. They released Tam in late afternoon when the examination ended, the victim said, adding the purpose of the detention was related to his examination.
Tam, who was imprisoned in 2013-2014 in a politically-motivated case, is the third activist facing harassment in their education in the past few years.
Last month, authorities in the central province of Thanh Hoa pressured Hong Duc University not to allow pro-democracy activist Nguyen Van Trang (Facebooker Trang Nguyen) to graduate from the university’s Science and Technology faculty.
Last year, human rights activist Pham Le Vuong Cac was troubled during enrolment in a Hanoi-based law university as the university did not want to accept him under pressure of police. However, Cac did not give up and later he was admitted to study there.
Since being released in October 2014, Tam has been actively involved in democracy and human rights advocacy works. In 2015, he went to the U.S. to participate in a hearing of the Congress to report on the situation of prisoners of conscience in detention facilities in Vietnam.
In late April, he and former political prisoner Chu Manh Son traveled to the central coastal region to cover news on the environmental catastrophe caused by the discharge of very hazardous industrial waste by the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in which hundreds of tons of aquatic species died in April-May. They were detained and tortured by police.
He has been suppressed many times by Vietnam’s authorities, suffering from arbitrary detentions, torture, assaults and robberies. (For suppressions on Mr. Tam: /category/truong-minh-tam/ )