La blogueuse et activiste sociale Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, emprisonnée depuis deux ans, est en grève de la faim depuis le 6 juin 2018, soit 12 jours. Très inquiète sur sa santé et sans nouvelles de sa fille, sa mère lance un appel vidéographique le jour du 39e anniversaire de sa fille pour la sauver.
Sixième jour de grève de la faim pour la blogueuse Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh. Rappel de son cas sur Radio Free Asia.
Jailed Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known as Mother Mushroom, is continuing to refuse food despite being transferred to a new cell, a key demand in a hunger strike she launched a week ago, her mother says.
Though she is now safe from a hostile and threatening cellmate in her former cell, she has no privacy in her new location, Quynh’s mother Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Thursday.
“The cell is not adequately walled, and even the toilet can be seen from outside,” Lan said after visiting her daughter in prison.
“She is still badly treated by the guards,” said Lan, adding that Quynh is in poor health and “getting thinner.”
Lan said she had urged Quynh during her visit to give up her strike, adding that friends and supporters outside the jail are also urging her to eat, but her daughter had vowed to continue to refuse food.
“She urged us to respect her decision,” Lan said.
Lan said that she was able to leave her daughter with a new set of clothes and a book of English grammar, but that a bible she had hoped to leave was given back by authorities at the jail.
La blogueuse et journaliste Pham Doan Trang récipendiaire d’un prix à Prague pour les Droits de l’homme décide de rester dans son pays pour poursuivre son action en faveur de la démocratie.
A Vietnamese activist blogger now under house arrest in Hanoi says she will not travel outside the country to receive a human rights award in March, vowing instead to remain in Vietnam to work for change in the one-party communist state.
Pham Doang Trang, author of a recently published book on political engagement that has angered Vietnamese authorities, wrote on Wednesday on her Facebook page that she will not attempt to go abroad to receive her prize.
“I haven’t gone abroad and don’t plan to, not even for a few days to receive the Homo Homini Prize in the Czech Republic on March 5,” Trang said.
“I will never leave Vietnam until Vietnam has changed.”
“When one is like a fish that has been born in a dirty and polluted pond, one can either find one’s way to a nicer and cleaner pond nearby or to the vast ocean, or one can try to change one’s own pond to make it beautiful, breathable, and worth living in,” Trang said.
Speaking on Wednesday to RFA’s Vietnamese Service, Trang’s mother Bui Thi Thien Can praised her daughter for her “beautiful ideals,” saying Trang “cannot and will never surrender or betray the path she has begun.”
Trang wrote her book, Politics for Everyone, to equip the Vietnamese public with basic knowledge about politics “so they won’t be afraid of politics or try to avoid it, especially youth and students who are afraid of the security forces,” Can said.
“I am very proud of having a daughter as smart and brave as Trang,” she said.
Security officers apprehended Trang on Feb. 24 to ask about her book and other activities and held her for 23 hours before returning her to her home under house arrest, fellow activists said at the weekend.
Copies of Trang’s book, which is considered politically sensitive in Vietnam, were seized by customs agents in the central coastal city of Danang on Feb. 9, when they were shipped into the country from abroad.
Trang recently received the Homo Homini Award from People in Need, an international human rights organization based in the Czech Republic that recognizes individuals dedicated to the development of human rights, democracy, and nonviolent solutions to political conflict.
Reported by RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Translated by Emily Peyman. Written in English by Richard Finney.
“Arrestation arbitraire et mise en résidence surveillée sans la moindre procédure… Les autorités vietnamiennes ne s’embarrassent même plus de camoufler leur répression de la liberté de la presse avec les habituels vernis de la légalité, déplore Daniel Bastard, responsable du bureau Asie-Pacifique de RSF. L’arrestation d’une journaliste comme Pham Doan Trang, reconnue internationalement pour son courage et la qualité de ses publications, représenterait un degré supplémentaire dans la course que se livrent les officiels vietnamiens pour étouffer les voix libres. La communauté internationale doit immédiatement en tirer les conséquences.”
Autres articles en vietnamien sur le blog Dân Làm Báo :
Publication aux États-Unis du témoignage de l’ancienne prisonnière de conscience Pham Thanh Nghiên. Présentation en vietnamien :
Những Mảnh Đời Sau Song Sắt – Slices of Life behind bars – A memoir by a Female Prisoner of Conscience: “… Ở mức độ nào đó, tôi viết nó không chỉ với vị trí của một cựu tù nhân lương tâm, mà với tâm thế của một tù nhân dự khuyết. Chừng nào tự do chưa đơm hoa kết trái trên quê hương Việt Nam, những chuyện tù của tôi mãi mãi còn dang dở. Đọc xong cuốn sách này, xin bạn hãy dành một khoảnh khắc của lòng mình để tưởng nhớ những tù nhân đã bỏ mình trong các nhà tù trên khắp mọi miền đất nước. Và nhớ đến những người vì khát vọng tự do mà chấp nhận bị đọa đày trong lao ngục. Cuối cùng tôi muốn nói với bạn rằng, khi bạn cầm trên tay cuốn sách nhỏ Những Mảnh Đời Sau Song Sắt của tôi, hay của bất cứ người tù nhân lương tâm nào, bạn thật sự là người can đảm.”
Libération Can Thi Theu après 20 mois d’emprisonnement. Déclaration à sa sortie de prison. Déterminée à poursuivre sa lutte pour les déshérités de la RSVN.