In many of the cases, the assaults took place in tandem with and seemingly in support of official repressive measures against the activists in question. Some of the beatings took place in the presence of uniformed officers within the confines of a police station. In many cases, the assaults took place in plain view of uniformed police officers who did not intervene. All the accounts are based on online sources, including eyewitness accounts of assaults posted on Vietnamese-language blogs and social media, often with photographic evidence, as well as on foreign media accounts, cross-checked against other independent accounts of the same incidents wherever possible.Īll the assaults documented here took place between January 2015 and April 2017.
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This report attempts to fill in the gap, documenting 36 recent cases in which human rights activists were beaten by “thugs” in Vietnam. To date, most authoritative assessments of human rights conditions in Vietnam have relied on measures of formal judicial repression (data on arrests, trials, convictions, and sentences imposed by Communist Party-controlled courts or officials acting in their formal capacities), and give too little attention to the frequency and significance of the kind of attacks documented here, effectively a form of extra-judicial repression. The attacks on Nguyen Van Dai and his colleagues illustrate a disturbing trend in Vietnam: physical assaults on activists by groups of men who appear to act at the direction of or with the acquiescence of officials. In January and March 2015, groups of men attacked his house and tried to break down the door.
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In May 2014, while in a café in Hanoi along with several rights activists, a group of men appeared, threw a glass at him, and beat him. The December 6 incident was not the first time Nguyen Van Dai had been attacked in this way.
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According to Nguyen Van Dai and Ly Quang Son, the taxi driver was also beaten by the men. During the trip, the men punched Thang repeatedly in his face and body. Ly Quang Son reported that the men drove Le Manh Thang away in a car to an unknown location, took his cell phone and wallet, and abandoned him by the side of the road. I used my feet to kick them about the face and head, but they struck me on my ankles, shins, and calves. Then another thug whipped me on my hand and I had to release the stick. Minh tried to hold on to Thang and I tried to grab their sticks. According to Ly Quang Son: The thugs dragged Vu Van Minh out and hit him repeatedly in the legs with a stick.… They also dragged Thang out of the car, hitting him in the chest with a stick. The three other rights activists were also severely beaten. Once the car arrived at Cua Lo beach, they stripped me of my jacket and shoes, pushed me out onto the beach and left. The beating continued inside the car: They slapped me on my face continuously, and hit me on my ears and my mouth.
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Nguyen Van Dai says the men dragged them out of the taxi, beating them with wooden sticks on their thighs and shoulders, and forced him into their car. During the course of the journey, their taxi was forcibly stopped by a group of roughly a dozen men wearing civilian clothing and disguised by surgical masks.
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That afternoon, he left for Hanoi, accompanied by fellow activists Ly Quang Son, Vu Van Minh (also known as Vu Duc Minh), and Le Manh Thang. In celebration of International Human Rights Day, on the morning of December 6, 2015, the prominent lawyer and human rights activist Nguyen Van Dai delivered a talk at Van Loc parish in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, about the rights enshrined in Vietnam’s Constitution.