Trần Anh Kim was convicted and sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment for “carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the Peoples’ administration” in 2016. At 69 years of age, his health is deteriorating and according to his wife, “may not survive his lengthy imprisonment” as authorities have denied him adequate medical care. A prisoner of conscience, Trần Anh Kim must be immediately and unconditionally released.
Trần Anh Kim was convicted and sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment for “carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the Peoples’ administration” in 2016. At 69 years of age, his health is deteriorating and according to his wife, “may not survive his lengthy imprisonment” as authorities have denied him adequate medical care. A prisoner of conscience, Trần Anh Kim must be immediately and unconditionally released. 1) TAKE ACTION Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:- Release Trần Anh Kim immediately and unconditionally as he is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for peacefully exercising his rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and expression;
- Ensure that pending his release, Trần Anh Kim is protected from torture and other ill-treatment, including through deliberate denial of adequate medical treatment;
- Provide immediately adequate medical treatment to Trần Anh Kim according to the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), Rule 24.
Contact these two officials by 27 June, 2018:
State President Trần Đại Quang Số 2 Hùng Vương, Ba Đình, Hà Nội, Việt Nam Fax: +844 437 335 256 Email: [email protected] Salutation: Dear State President
Ambassador H.E. Pham Quang Vinh, Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1233 20th St NW Ste 400 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 1 202 861 0737 I Fax: 1 202 861 0917 Email: [email protected] OR [email protected] Salutation: Dear Ambassador
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