Jailed dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen

Nguyen Bac Truyen and wife Bui Thi Kim Phuong

Nguyen Bac Truyen and wife Bui Thi Kim Phuong Source: nguoi-viet.com

The wife of former political prisoner Nguyen Bac Truyen, Ms Bui Thị Kim Phương told SBS she has not met her husband since he was arrested in late July.


Nguyen Bac Truyen, 49, was arrested in 2006 for alleged "propaganda against the state" under article 88 of the Vietnam Penal Code and sentenced to four years in prison.

After his discharge, he continued to work for democracy, human rights, especially help Hoa Hao Buddhist followers which was not the state established organisation. He was honored by Hellmam Hammett's Human Rights Watch in 2011.

After many months of no information and many complaint, Bui Thi Kim Phuong was informed that her husband prisoned at B-14 detention in the suburbs of Hanoi to visit but not yet sent the necessary medicine he needs to take every day and also not meet her husband.


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