Vietnam: wife of detained blogger turned WHRD summoned (Update)
Event- Country
- Viet Nam
- Initial Date
- Jul 11, 2024
- Event Description
Teacher Dang Dang Phuoc’s wife, Le Thi Ha, told Project88 that Buon Me Thuot provincial police summoned her on July 11 to question her about her Facebook activities and the people she met at a wedding and during a visit to Phuoc Buu Temple where she met, purely by chance, a representative from the U.S. Consulate. They also asked her about her interview with RFA and suggested that she stop sharing information about her husband’s condition with others. Hue told them she doesn’t use Facebook and only tells people about Phuoc if someone asks. At the end of the interrogation, the police mentioned to Hue that “we have not reported these activities to the school” where she works, strongly hinting that her employment could be in danger if she doesn’t stop advocating for her husband. Last month, Phuoc was put in solitary confinement for allegedly breaking prison rules.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Online
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Family of HRD
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 12.677538767425757
Longitude: 108.0530527497721
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 11 July 2024, Le Thi Ha, wife of detained blogger Dang Dang Phuoc and WHRD, was summoned for interrogation by the provincial police in relation to her social media engagement and other meetings she had in Buon Me Thuot Province, Viet Nam.
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