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( Source: Ligue Vietnamienne des Droits de l'Homme / Vietnamese League for Human Rights / Liên Hôi Nhân Quyên Viêt Nam CP 333 1211 Genève 4 Suisse).
NGUYÊN DINH HUY
Pen names: Viêt Huy, Ngô Trân Luân and Nguyên Viêt Thang.
Born on January 2nd 1932 at Kim Son, Nam Dinh, North Vietnam.
Profession: Editor, writer, journalist, professor of history and modern languages (Vietnamese and English) before April 1975.
Date of last Arrest: November 13, 1993
Sentence: 15 years in prison
Expires: November 2008
Details of Arrest: Accused of attempting to organize a conference called "International Conference for the Development and Democracy in Vietnam" to be held on November 27, 1993 with the participation of some foreign personalities. For that, Nguyên Dinh Huy had received the agreement of some of high-ranking responsible persons in the Hanoi government.
Details of trial: Tried and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in August 1995. Seven members of his organization were also arrested and sentenced from 4 to 14 years of imprisonment. Only two condamned persons having the foreign nationality, were released and expelled with the intervention of their government. One of Nguyên Dinh Huy's co-detainees, Nguyên Ngoc Tân (pen name Pham Thai), an honorary member of English, French, Perth, Polish and Swiss Romand PEN Centres, was granted amnesty on April 30th 2000.
Health: Before 1999, Nguyên Dinh Huy's wife reported his health to be poor and the prisoner suffered from Parkinsons disease due to daily forced labour in the fields and disastrous conditions of detention. In March 2001, returning from a camp visit, Nguyên Dinh Huy's wife reported his health to be improved.
Previous imprisonment: Opposing to violations of human rights of the new regime, Nguyên Dinh Huy had been already imprisoned, without charge or trial, in various jails, deportation and forced labour camps during 17 years since April 1975. Released in February 1992. With other Vietnamese intellectuals, he formed the Movement for the peaceful promotion of national Unity and building of Democracy. New Arrest.
Place of detention: Forced labour camp Z30A Xuân Lôc, province de Dông Nai.
Other details: Married with 3 children.
Recipient of the 1997 Lillian Hellman/Dashiell Hammett 1997 for Free Expression (granted by Human Rights Watch).
Honorary member of English, French, Polish, Perth and Swiss Romand PEN Centres.
Supplementary information:
Activist against both French colonialist occupation and Vietnamese communist violence. Refugee in South Vietnam after division of country (1954). Imprisoned for denouncing Republican president Ngô Dinh Diêm's authoritarian rule (1957-1959).
Since April 1975, Nguyên Dinh Huy has been detained in several prisons and concentration camps in Vietnam:
- 1975, interned at Long Thanh camp in Thu Duc district, North of Saigon (South Vietnam);
- 1975 transferred to Nam Hà camp, province of Hà Nam Ninh (North Vietnam);
- 1979, transferred to Hà Tây camp, province of Hà Son Binh (North Vietnam);
- 1980, transferred to Hoa Lo (the Stove), the famous central prison of Hanôi for further investigation;
- 1981, transferred back to Hà Tây camp until the end of 1981, back to Nam Hà camp;
- 1989, transferred to Hàm Tân Z30D camp, province de Thuân Hai (South Vietnam);
- 1993, incarcerated at the Security Police Prison, Ho Chi Minh city;
- 1995, deported to Xuân Lôc Z30A camp, province de Dông Nai (South Vietnam).
The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at the 66th World Congress, held in Warsaw, Poland, 15-20 June 1999 has adopted a Resolution* appealling to the Vietnamese authorities to release immediately and unconditionally all individuals imprisoned for exercising the right of freedom of expression, among them: Nguyên Dinh Huy, Nguyên Ngoc Tân and Nguyên Ngoc Dat (honorary member of PEN Centre Suisse Romand).
* Resolution on Vietnam submitted by the Polish PEN Centre and seconded by the
English, Swiss Italian and Reto-romansh and Suisse Romand PEN Centres.