Posted on Tuesday, April 08 @ 18:11:56 EDT
EDLC và BPSOS chào mừng Ts. Cù Huy Hà Vũ
Hôm
nay, hai tổ chức Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) và Boat People SOS
(BPSOS) ra tuyên bố chung về việc Ts. Cù Huy Hà Vũ đã được tự do và đã đến Hoa
Kỳ bình an với vợ là luật sư Nguyễn Thị Dương Hà.
Trong nhiều năm, hai tổ chức này đã phối hợp với
nhau và một số tổ chức nhân quyền quốc tế để đòi công lý cho Ts. Cù Huy Hà Vũ.
EDLC chú ý đến các vụ kiện mà văn phòng luật Cù Huy Hà Vũ đã thực hiện để bảo vệ
văn hoá và môi sinh, điển hình là vụ kiện Thủ Tướng Nguyễn Tấn Dũng về dự án
khai thác Bauxite ở Tây Nguyên.
EDLC đã đưa hồ sơ của Ts. Cù Huy Hà Vũ ra Tổ Công
Tác Về Giam Giữ Tuỳ Tiện của Liên Hiệp Quốc và đã được Hãng luật WilmerHale,
LLP, trợ giúp pháp lý hoàn toàn miễn phí.
Dưới đây
là bản tuyên bố chung bằng Anh ngữ.
Leading Vietnamese Environmental Defender Freed
EDLC and Boat People SOS are delighted to
announce that Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, 56, a lawyer, environmentalist, and
pro-democracy activist, has been released from a Vietnamese prison and
arrived on April 7, 2014 in Washington, D.C. He will serve as a scholar and
fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. EDLC and its partners have been
working steadfastly for Dr. Vu’s release for the past three and
one-half years.
Ts. Cù Huy Hà Vũ, Ls. Nguyễn Thị Dương Hà và Cô
Jenifer L Neidhart de Ortiz, đặc trách nhân quyền ở Toà Đại Sứ Hoa Kỳ ở Việt
Nam, tại phi trường Dulles International Airport, ngày 7 tháng 4, 2014 (ảnh
BPSOS)
Dr. Vu became nationally known for his pro-democracy
views and for filing a lawsuit challenging construction of a hotel resort on a
protected cultural heritage site, and a lawsuit against Prime Minister Nguyen
Tan Dung for having unlawfully approved a bauxite mining project in
Vietnam's Central Highlands that threatened environmental and health
harms. He enjoyed extraordinarily broad support among diverse sectors of
Vietnamese society, and became a cause célèbre through the power of the
internet. Human Rights Watch issued a lengthy report, "Vietnam: The Party vs. Legal Activist Cu Huy Ha Vu," describing
the unique elements that made his case Vietnam's most high-profile political
trial in decades. Dr. Vu's family's revolutionary credentials made him one of
the most prominent people to publicly question the rule of the Communist Party
of Vietnam.
The trial of Dr. Vu in April 2011 lasted less than six hours. He was convicted on charges of "propaganda against the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" according to Article 88 of the Criminal Code and sentenced by Vietnam's Supreme Court to seven years in prison and an additional three years of probation.
In 2011, EDLC filed legal briefs with both the trial and appeals courts in Vietnam, and alerted the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to the human rights violations in Dr. Vu’s case. The Working Group soon found Dr. Vu´s deprivation of liberty to be arbitrary and to violate human rights treaties to which Vietnam is a party, and urged the government to release him.
EDLC enlisted the support of attorneys at WilmerHale, LLP who, on a pro bono basis, have advocated on behalf of Dr. Vu in coordination with EDLC, Boat People SOS, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights organizations.
EDLC is thrilled that Dr. Vu is now free and welcomes him to the United States.
More information about the case can be found on the EDLC website.
The trial of Dr. Vu in April 2011 lasted less than six hours. He was convicted on charges of "propaganda against the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" according to Article 88 of the Criminal Code and sentenced by Vietnam's Supreme Court to seven years in prison and an additional three years of probation.
In 2011, EDLC filed legal briefs with both the trial and appeals courts in Vietnam, and alerted the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to the human rights violations in Dr. Vu’s case. The Working Group soon found Dr. Vu´s deprivation of liberty to be arbitrary and to violate human rights treaties to which Vietnam is a party, and urged the government to release him.
EDLC enlisted the support of attorneys at WilmerHale, LLP who, on a pro bono basis, have advocated on behalf of Dr. Vu in coordination with EDLC, Boat People SOS, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights organizations.
EDLC is thrilled that Dr. Vu is now free and welcomes him to the United States.
More information about the case can be found on the EDLC website.
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