Vietnam: social media activist handed down 5-year prison term, his family not informed (Update)
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Apr 18, 2023
- Event Description
Thong Nhat district court, Dong Nai province, sentenced Mr Vuong to 5 years jail in a hearing on 18 April 2023, for abuse democratic freedoms.
He had no legal representation, his family was not notified of the hearing.
He was arrested on 3 Jan 2023. One day after, Thong Nhat district police gave his family a document titled 'Notification about the temporary detention' of Mr Vuong, stating he would be detained for 2 months, but didn't provide the reason.
'That was the only document our family received from local authorities about Vuong's situation', one of Mr Vuong's relatives told RFA Viet 7 Aug, on condition of anonymity.
'At beginning of May [2023], police at temporary detention centre B5, Dong Nai province, rang our family and informed that Vuong was jailed there, and we could visit him,' this relative said.
When they visited him, Mr Vuong told them he had been sentenced to 5 years jail for abuse democratic freedoms in a hearing without legal representation on 18 April.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Denial Fair Trial
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Online
- Right to fair trial
- Right to liberty and security
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Blogger/ Social Media Activist
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 10.956662066461329
Longitude: 106.96137202934374
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 18 April 2023, Hoang Van Vuong, detained blogger, was sentenced to 5-year prison term after a secret trial marked by irregularities by a court in Thong Nhat District, Viet Nam.