Nguyễn Văn Đài
Nguyễn Văn Đài (born 1969) is a Vietnamese human rights lawyer, democratic activist and blogger. In 1989 he worked for a year as a contract worker in the GDR and then studied law in Vietnam. His law firm became the legal representative of many politically persecuted Vietnamese, trade unionists and banned Christian groups. He was accused of "propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam". He has been in strict solitary confinement since December 16, 2015. For the same crime, he was imprisoned for 4 years in 2007 and then in house arrest for 4 years. He had formed a committee for human rights. In April 2018, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Hanoi People's Court for "preparing an attempted coup". The coup attempt is said to have been the establishment of a network for democracy with a manifesto calling for a multi-party system, separation of powers and freedom of religion. In the grounds of the judgment, it was seen as a threat “to the existence of the government”. June 2018 he was released to Germany after two and a half years in prison.
On April 5, 2017, while he was in custody in Vietnam, Đài was awarded the Human Rights Prize 2017 by the German Association of Judges (DRB) in Weimar .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Judges' Association awards human rights prize to imprisoned Vietnamese lawyer , rsw.beck.de, 2017-04-06
- ↑ taz of June 8, 2018, released to Germany
- ↑ Lễ trao giải nhân quyền cho LS. Nguyễn Văn Đài tại Đức ( Memento from April 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), www.rfa.org, 2017-04-06
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| SURNAME | Nguyễn Văn Đài |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese lawyer, human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |