Vietnam: detained EHRD harassed by prison guards (Update)
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Nov 12, 2023
- Event Description
On Nov. 12, Hoang Duc Binh’s mother and younger brother visited him at An Diem Prison. By law the meeting was supposed to last one hour, but it was abruptly cut off after 35 minutes by a Lt Lê Văn Hiếu. When the family protested, Hieu told them the reason was because they were overloaded with visit requests. The prison guards also told the family Binh was not allowed to receive any rice they sent him via the post and told them to take back the 3kg they sent last month. No reason was given. Binh is a labor and environmental activist serving 14 years in prison.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to food
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Environmental rights defender
- Labour rights defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 15.790659667970141
Longitude: 108.26299131987946
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 12 November 2023, Hoang Duc Binh, detained labour and environmental HRD, had his family visit cut short by the prison officers, who did not allow to receive the food brought to him by the family members in An Diem Prison, Dai Loc district, Viet Nam.