Vietnam: elder mother of detained WHRD harassed at the airport
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Jun 2, 2022
- Event Description
Pham Doan Trang’s mother, Bui Thi Thien Can, was detained at Noi Bai Airport for questioning by security police for four hours. She was detained as she returned to Hanoi from her trip to Geneva to accept the Martin Ennals Human Rights Award on behalf of her daughter on June 2. During the three-week visit, Mrs Bui met with more than 20 representatives from the EU, several international organizations, officials at Switzerland Foreign Ministry, representatives from the UNHCR, a number of UN Special Rapporteurs, the US ambassador to Geneva, and officials from Canada and the Czech Republic. According to one of her children, the octogenarian was finally released after midnight in a state of total exhaustion.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Reprisal as Result of Communication
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of movement
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- HRD
- Family of HRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 21.02960662902265
Longitude: 105.8524706556071
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 2 June 2022, the elder mother of prominent and detained WHRD Pham Doan Trang was interrogated for hours by the police upon her return from Europe, where she received a human rights award on behalf of her daughter at the airport of Hanoi, Viet Nam.