Vietnam: wife of jailed pro-democracy defender summoned and intimidated
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Sep 8, 2023
- Event Description
Le Thi Thap, the wife of Luu Van Vinh, told Project 88 that she was summoned by police from Binh Tan District in HCMC to appear for questioning on Sept. 8.. When she appeared, she was advised to persuade her husband to plead guilty in order for him to be released early. Then they asked her whether any representatives from the U.S. consulate had visited her husband and if she had signed any petition letter to the president of the United States. She answered that since her husband was in jail, they should know whether or not anyone had visited him. They also told her that if her family had a desire to emigrate to the United States, they would help her fill out the paperwork. She just told them to give her the forms. After that, she was allowed to go home safely. Vinh was arrested in 2016 and is serving a 15-year sentence for “attempted subversion” for belonging to the group Vietnam National Self-Determination Coalition.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Family of HRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 10.788815877876626
Longitude: 106.69597349396321
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 8 September 2023, Le Thi Thap, the wife of jailed pro-democracy defender Luu Van Vinh, was summoned and intimidated into persuading her husband to plead guilty by the police in Binh Tan district, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.