Vietnam: long-term WHRD denied adequate cancer treatment (Update)
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Mar 22, 2024
- Event Description
Huynh Ngoc Chenh, husband of Nguyen Thuy Hanh, told Project88 that on March 10 he was called to the police station to file paperwork that would allow him to bring Hanh home for cancer treatment, provided that she remain at the residence where she was living at the time of her arrest. However, that apartment had since been leased to another tenant, and the lease would not expire until March 18. Chenh told the police he would try to negotiate with the tenant to end the lease early so his wife could move back to that residence; however, that effort failed. Then on March 17, he called the authorities to let them know that he could take Hanh home on March 18, but received no response from them. Then on March 22, after Hanh’s radiation therapy, the authorities went to K Hospital and read an order to continue Hanh’s “temporary detention” for another three months. She was then taken back to the jail on 2 Thuong Tin St. It is not clear why Hanh’s family was given such false hopes.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to health
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 21.034074704782324
Longitude: 105.85056871393981
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 22 March 2024, Nguyen Thuy Hanh, detained WHRD, was denied adequate cancer treatment and sent back to prison after being falsely promised she would be transferred to home detention by prison authorities in Hanoi, Viet Nam.