April 5, 2014
Death of activist Dinh Dang Dinh should be ‘wake-up call’ for Viet Nam
Amnesty | 4 April 2014 Amnesty International has paid tribute to Dinh Dang Dinh, the Vietnamese environmental activist, blogger and former prisoner of conscience, who has died aged 50. The activist was unjustly jailed in 2011 after starting a petition against a mining project and was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. The authorities only allowed […]
April 5, 2014
Cancer-Stricken Vietnamese Former Political Prisoner Dies
by Nhan Quyen • Dinh Dang Dinh
RFA | 2014-04-04 A prominent Vietnamese former political prisoner who received a presidential amnesty two weeks ago has died of cancer, according to his family, in what an international rights group said was a tragedy that should be a “wake-up call” for the country. Dinh Dang Dinh, 50, an environmental activist and blogger who had […]