Vietnam: imprisoned HRD treated harshly as prison condition worsened (Update)
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Apr 19, 2024
- Event Description
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc told his brother Tran Huynh Duy Tan on April 26 that the quality of the food in prison has gone down while prices are going up. After a three day hunger strike (sometime before this date), he had lost 2kg and currently weighs about 63kg. Since April 18, he and several others allegedly have been kept in what is known as a “tiger cage,” described by Dang Dinh Bach’s wife in the preceding paragraph. On April 19, when Thuc refused to be put in the tiger cage, he alleges that the guards dragged him in anyway, tearing up his shirt and causing bruises on his neck. Thuc asks that international observers, especially UN special rapporteurs, come visit the prison conditions and assess Vietnam’s latest response to the UPR.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Torture
- Use of Excessive Force
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Right to food
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 18.78364496497974
Longitude: 105.33589231678839
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 19 April 2024, jailed pro-democracy HRD Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, was treated harshly by prison guards including by being attacked and tortured as conditions worsened and political prisoners were kept in inhumane cells in Nghe An, Vietnam.