Vietnam: wife of jailed HRD interrogated, possibly surveilled
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Feb 16, 2024
- Event Description
Trinh Thi Nhung, the wife of Bui Van Thuan, told Project88 that during the Tet holidays she was suddenly summoned to the police station on Feb. 16 without a reason. Once there, they showed her a Facebook account using her name but which had been created only one day earlier; the account contained posts that could potentially be deemed “anti-state propaganda.” She denied it was hers and refused to sign an affidavit. Since that day, the police have allegedly been posting men around her house. She reported that unknown men wearing face masks have also been following her and her young child everywhere. At night, they even allegedly asked her neighbors to shine their lights on her house “all through the night.”
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Surveillance
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to privacy
- HRD
- Family of HRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 19.805940620088833
Longitude: 105.77467021177002
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 16 February 2024, Trinh Thi Nhung, wife of jailed pro-democracy defender Bui Van Thuan, was interrogated by the police on false allegations and possibly under further surveillance in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam.
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