Bloggers bị bắt và
bị tấn công trong khi dã ngoại bàn về nhân quyền
Dear
all,
May
5, 2013, a large number of youths, bloggers, and internet users gathered for
picnics in public parks held across 4 urban cities of Vietnam: Saigon, Hanoi,
Hai Phong and Nha Trang. As per their open call on social media and blogs, the
purpose of these picnic gatherings is to enjoy outdoor weather, meet old
friends and make new ones, and to discuss universal human rights, but above
all, to have fun with friends and families.
For
the past weeks, facebook was buzzing with the news that there would be Talk
About Human Rights Picnics on May 5, with instructions to direct interested
citizens to specific parks on certain date and times, from the North to the
South.
Unfortunately,
instead of encouraging open discussion about universal human rights during the
time when the Vietnamese government is calling for citizens' input for its
constitutional amendments, as early as 6:30 am on the morning of May 5, the
authorities made its presence known with hundreds of security police, both in
uniforms and plain clothes. They used various tactics to stop people from
participating in these picnics, including violent means. Barbed wires were set
up around the perimeters of all the parks, and police used metal sticks,
batons, to strike at participants. Cameras and cell phones were also
confiscated.
Blogger
Nguyen Hoang Vi, her sister (Nguyen Thao Chi) and her mother were all beaten up
severely. With her mother's existing poor heart condition, when a security
police jabbed his lit cigarette into her face, her mother fainted. Her sister
was punched continually in the face, and 3 of her front teeth were knocked out.
The security police did not stop even when her shirt was soaked in blood.
Blogger
and poet Vu Sy Hoang (pen name Hanh Nhan) was also arrested at the same time as
Nguyen Hoang Vi, and was taken to a different police station.
Blogger
Quoc Anh was also arrested and subjected to torture during his 9-hour
detention. He blacked out when the security police used an electric stick to
shock him. They wanted to force him to confess to charges that were drawn up
for him to sign. When he refused to plead guilty to their trumped-up charges,
they continued beating him savagely, to the point that he fainted again. The
police then had to take him to the police station for more beatings and
interrogation until they finally released him.
Blogger
Me Nam and other well-known bloggers were also under heavy surveillance to stop
them from leaving their houses and attending the Human Rights Discussion Picnic
in the parks. Their internet as well as phone services were also cut off to
stop them from sending out messages via their mobile phones or other social
media tools.
Together
with other participants, these courageous bloggers were seen distributing
booklets and fliers of the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights to other
pedestrians and even to the police.
Ms.
Pham Thanh Nghien in Hai Phong city, who was recently been released from 4
years of imprisonment, and was still under house arrest, decided to show
support by having a picnic with her mother on the frontyard of their house
since she was not allowed to leave her residence. She called on others who were
in similar situation like her (being under house arrest) to have a picnic with
their loved ones right in front of their homes. She was seen reading to her mother
the universal human rights from the UN declaration when she and her mother were
harassed by hostile and brutal police guards. (Please log on to the links below
for more photographs of her and her mother partaking in the picnic at the front
of their home). Concerned friends and visitors who wanted to see her, were
turned away by the crowd of police posting around her house and neighbourhood.
Since her recent release from prison, Pham Thanh Nghien has been suffering from
severe migraine headache, dizziness, and poor vision.
Please
help us alert the international human rights community for timely intervention
and to raise concerns with embassies in Vietnam to make formal inquiries with
the Vietnamese authorities about these arrests and beatings of cititizens who
only wanted to exercise their rights of assembly and freedom of expression at
peaceful picnics in public parks.
Thank
you all for your continued support for peace, democracy and human rights in
Vietnam,
More
links to danlambao news blogsite for more details:
At
around 9:30 am, when the crowd started to gather and booklets about The United
Nation's Declaration of Human Rights were distributed by a few bloggers, the
police sprung into action. They had already detained various bloggers and
writers as soon as they left their houses earlier and forced them to have a
picnic somewhere else, under the supervision of the police! Back at the main
gathering points, the police were seen harassing people, threatening them with
violence, snatching their cameras and cell phones to actually beating and
making arrests.
A
witness reported that he saw 3 to 4 guards beating up a young student, forcing
him against the side of a police car then kicking, kneeing and punching him in
the face. The uniformed policemen actually formed a circle around the guards
and the student, preventing people from jumping in to help the poor victim. The
beating went on for more than 20 minutes. When concerned passer-bys inquired as
to why he was beaten up so savagely, the police bluntly told lies that he was a
drug seller then bundled him up into a sedan and sped off.
Another
student complained that as soon as he sat down on a bench with a group, trying
to make friends and to start a conversation about human rights, the police
ordered a park cleaner to spray them with dirty, stinky water so that they had
to leave. This happened to several people. A friend of mine who attended the
event later told me that he himself was surrounded and threatened by 4
policemen. One of them raised his hand to punch him while the other tried to
snatch his camera. Quick thinking, he screamed “ Robbers ! Help me ! Help me “.
At that the police backed off and let him run away.
That
was not all, there were also reports that the police had already harrassed
several well known bloggers like Me Nam, Pham Thanh Nghien the day before... by
guarding their places of residence 24/24, preventing them from leaving the
house and disconnecting their cell phone service. Mrs Thuy Nga Tran, a mother
with 2 young children aged 3 years and 5 months old, were last night ordered by
the police to leave the hotel where they were staying, forcing them to spend
the night out on the street in the cold, just because they were on their way to
attend the picnic this morning.
Later
in the day the police arrested blogger Nguyen Hoang Vi , just for distributing
fliers printed with the UN Declaration of Human Rights to the passer-bys. She
and several others were bundled up into police cars and taken away.
Despite
the massive effort by the police to sabotage the event, many people gathered to
chat among themselves, to march around holding placards announcing that the
ability to gather in public parks is their right and that the Communist
Government should respect the people 's freedom of expression. Many pictures
and stories were posted on Facebook and other public media.
The
photograph below shows an elderly woman kneeling down on the pavement to sign
her name on a sheet that read “I protest against the government 's violation of
its citizens' human rights".
On
the placards held by the participants, there are several mentions of the words
TU DO, which means freedom. The one at the forefront reads: "Freedom of
Assembly is Cititizens' Right".
Rock and Roll•3 hours ago
Thank you for letting people around the world know about
the crimes of the Vietnamese communists, especially the communist police at Phu
Thanh ward, Tan Phu district, Vietnam. Please help the victims of the communist
regime if you can. We pray for those victims to get healed quickly.
The more people know about the crimes of the Vietnamese
communist regime, the better results will come to the fight for freedom,
democracy, and human rights for Vietnam. Together we can change Vietnam
regardless how wicked, stubborn, and evil the Vietnamese communists are.
Together we can overcome all challenges that the Vietnamese communists have
created for the Vietnamese people.
Definitely we should let many mass media and human rights
organizations, democratic governments, especially embassies of free countries
who are currently working in Vietnam. If everyone lend his or her helping hand,
we are sure that Vietnam will be free very soon. We look forward a bright
future for Vietnam.
May God bless Vietnam! May God bless America! May God
bless this world!
Cảm ơn bạn đã cho mọi người trên thế giới biết về những
tội ác của cộng sản Việt Nam, đặc biệt là công an cộng sản tại phường Phú
Thạnh, quận Tân Phú, Việt Nam. Xin vui lòng giúp đỡ các nạn nhân của chế độ
cộng sản nếu bạn có thể. Chúng tôi cầu nguyện cho những nạn nhân để họ được
chữa lành nhanh chóng.
Càng nhiều người biết về tội ác của chế độ cộng sản Việt
Nam, các kết quả tốt hơn sẽ đến với cuộc đấu tranh cho tự do, dân chủ, và nhân
quyền cho Việt Nam. Cùng nhau chúng ta có thể thay đổi Việt Nam bất kể cộng sản
Việt Nam độc ác, bướng bỉnh, và tàn ác co nao. Cùng nhau chúng ta có thể vượt
qua mọi thách thức mà những người cộng sản Việt Nam đã tạo ra cho nhân dân Việt
Nam.
Chắc chắn chúng ta nên để cho nhiều phương tiện truyền
thông đại chúng và các tổ chức nhân quyền, các chính phủ dân chủ, đặc biệt là
các đại sứ quán của các quốc gia tự do hiện đang làm việc tại Việt Nam. Nếu
được tất cả mọi người giúp đỡ, chúng tôi chắc chắn rằng Việt Nam sẽ rất sớm có
tự do dân chủ và nhân quyền. Chúng tôi mong muốn một tương lai tươi sáng cho
Việt Nam.
Xin Thiên Chúa chúc lành cho Việt Nam! Xin Thiên Chúa
chúc lành cho nước Mỹ! Xin Thiên Chúa chúc lành cho thế giới này!
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