Vietnam: detained journalist not allowed to have visitors (Update)
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Apr 3, 2024
- Event Description
The sister of the detained journalist Nguyen Vu Binh, Nguyen Thi Phong, told The 88 Project that she visited him at Detention Center No. 1 in Hanoi on April 3. Phong explained that since Binh is still under investigation, he is still not allowed to have visitors. She could only send Binh some food and money. Binh, a former writer at the Party mouthpiece, The Communist Review, and one of the founders of the pro-democracy group Brotherhood for Democracy, was arrested under Article 117 for his alleged engagement in the distribution of anti-state propaganda.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 21.038876671357905
Longitude: 105.87563841833925
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 3 April 2024, detained independent journalist Nguyen Vu Binh, was denied visitors by the authorities in Detention Center No. 1 as he is undergoing an anti-state propaganda case in Hanoi, Vietnam.