Hồ Đức Hoà (born 1974) is a community organizer and journalist who has been arrested in
Vietnam and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2013.
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2011 Arrest
Hồ Đức Hoà is known for being a contributing journalist for the Vietnam Redemptorist News and for actively mobilizing access to education for children living in poverty and assistance to typhoon victims and people living with disabilities. Hoa was arrested on July 30, 2011 at Tan Son Nhat Airport along with
Dang Xuan Dieu
Dang may refer to:
Music
* "Dang!" (song), a 2015 song by Mac Miller from ''The Divine Feminine''
* "Dang!", a 2018 song by GreatGuys from ''Trigger''
People
* Dang (surname) with origins in both Asiatic and Indo-European languages
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and Nguyen Van Oai upon their return to Vietnam. They were detained on unspecified charges under Article 79 which outlines activities aimed at overthrowing the government. This was the first in a series of arrests during the
2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists
Between July 2011 and December 2011 a number of young Vietnamese Christian activists, primarily located in northern province of Nghệ An, Vietnam, and working with the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, were arrested by the Vietnamese gove ...
.
2013 Conviction
A trial was held on January 8 and 9 by the People's Court of
Nghệ An Province for 14 social activists, including
Paulus Lê Sơn Paulus Le Son is a Vietnamese blogger, member of the Catholic church and dissident who was arrested in Vietnam in 2011 and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2013.
2011 arrest
Son was previously arrested in April 2011 trying to attend the trial ...
and Ho Duc Hoa. All human rights defenders were sentenced to 3 to 13 years in charges of subversion. During the court case, Hoa was accused of involved in a training session organised by
Viet Tan, a US-based pro-democracy organization to establish democracy and reform Vietnam through peaceful and political means. Along with Dang Xuan Dieu and Paulus Le Son, Hoa was convicted to 13 years in prison followed by 5 years in house arrest. During the following appeal trial, Hoa's sentence remain unchanged.
International Response
Ho Duc Hoa's arrest sparked immediate uproar from various NGO's and Members of Congress including
Human Rights Watch which described it as a "new blot on the country’s already problematic record on freedom of religion". The Embassy of the United States in Vietnam said that they were "deeply troubled" following the conviction of the activists over the two-day trial.
Stanford Law School's Allen Weiner filed a petition to the United Nations Working Group for Arbitrary Detention (UNGWAD) on behalf of the families of the detained activists including Ho Duc Hoa in July 2012. On November 28, 2013 the UNWGAD ruled in favour of the petition by Weiner, ruling the detention to be arbitrary and unlawful while condemning the treatment of the 16 social and political activists.
See also
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Human rights in Vietnam
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2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists
Between July 2011 and December 2011 a number of young Vietnamese Christian activists, primarily located in northern province of Nghệ An, Vietnam, and working with the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, were arrested by the Vietnamese gove ...
*
Dang Xuan Dieu
Dang may refer to:
Music
* "Dang!" (song), a 2015 song by Mac Miller from ''The Divine Feminine''
* "Dang!", a 2018 song by GreatGuys from ''Trigger''
People
* Dang (surname) with origins in both Asiatic and Indo-European languages
* Dang, a ...
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Paulus Le Son Paulus is the original Latin form of the English name Paul. It may refer to:
Ancient Roman
* Paul (jurist) or Julius Paulus (fl. 222–235 AD), Roman jurist
* Paulus (consul 496), politician of the Eastern Roman Empire
* Paulus (consul 512), ...
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Ta Phong Tan
References
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Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Vietnam
Vietnamese democracy activists
Vietnamese human rights activists
Vietnamese dissidents
Vietnamese prisoners and detainees
1974 births
Living people