Human rights defender and blogger Dinh Dang Dinh was unfairly convicted and sentenced to 6 years, in August 2012, for “circulating propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”. Suffering from terminal stomach cancer, he was hospitalised a month ago and is kept under constant police and video surveillance. Dinh Dang Dinh’s life may now be “counted in days and hours,” according to his wife, whose pleas to the government to release him so he may die among his family and friends have been stonewalled.
FIDH has campaigned, through all available channels, to secure his release, namely issuing an urgent appeal and initiating follow-up action with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. On the 15th of February, the Vietnamese government suspended Dinh Dang Dinh’s prison sentence for 12 months.
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