The regime has been hardened since the third term obtained at the head of the Vietnamese Communist Party in February 2021 by the highly conservative Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong, despite the rules of alternation and age limit.
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Retired businesswoman inhabiting Hanoi, Nguyen Thuy Hanh, 59, is part of these human rights activists who, for years, strive to remind the unique party at the head of Vietnam their attachment to democracy. In response, it undergoes permanent harassment from the political police.
His path is emblematic of that of many other activists, as details a Report of the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), published on Thursday, February 17, on restrictions on their freedom of movement through of residual assignments, prohibitions to move and exit the country and intimidation of all kinds. This report, which is based on the study of 170 cases, reveals the systematic use of methods that are most often formal justification, but pragmatically fulfill the objective sought, that is to say. “Neutralize” and “isolate” the individual concerned to prevent an organized challenge.
M me Nguyen declared independent candidate in the 2016 parliamentary elections, locked by the Vietnamese Communist Party (PCV). She was then denounced as “reactionary” and saw his candidacy rejected. In 2018, it launched a dissent family aid fund, the “50 k VND” – the Fund at 50,000 dongs, or 1.95 euro – which in one year managed to support 200 families of activists or petitioners in need. Until the emotion aroused by death in 2020, under the bullets of the police, a village chief who resisted against the spoliations exploded the donations, and attracted him a whole series of trouble: strangers the Blocked at home until after the date of the funeral of the villagers and, when she was able to go out, the bank account had been blocked on the grounds of “terrorist financing”.
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The HRW report lists several methods used by the authorities against dissidents: the parking of civilian safety officers outside the homes; the use of outdoor padlocks or adhesive to lock home people, or prevent them from receiving guests; the establishment of roadblocks and other physical obstacles to hinder their displacements; Or, the mobilization of neighborhood thugs to intimidate them. The forced assignment at residence by large arms is designated as the name of “Banh Canh” – literally the “guard soup” – by activists.
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