Vietnam: Plainclothes agents threaten family of prominent human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Jun 8, 2017
- Event Description
On 8 June 2017, a group of ten plainclothes agents came to the private residence of former political prisoner Le Quoc Quan in Hanoi, blocking the family from going out and threatening to kill him and his wife and three daughters if he continues to work for human rights and multi-party democracy. The move came one week after Quan met with visiting U.S. Senator John McCain and other members of a delegation of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services where he reported the intensified political crackdown in Vietnam to the guests
- Impact of Event
- 5
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of Religion and Belief
- Right to liberty and security
- Right to political participation
- HRD
- Lawyer
- Pro-democracy defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Suspected state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 21.02776439999998
Longitude: 105.83415980000001
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 8 June 2017, a group of ten plainclothes agents came to the private residence of former political prisoner Le Quoc Quan in Hanoi, blocking the family from going out and threatening to kill him and his wife and three daughters if he continues to work for human rights and multi-party democracy.