Bieu tinh truoc DSQ Viet Nam

Amnesty International (UK) are again holding a 'Polite Protest' outside the Vietnamese Embassy, Kensington, London, to ask for the release of Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience. Sunday May 13th 2012. 11.00am -12.30pm. WHO ARE WE SUPPORTING Following his release from prison, we have received a message from Truong Quoc Huy, thanking us for supporting him and asking us to continue pressing for the release of other prisoners. So this year we will focus on: Nguyen Xuan Nghia, aged 60. A poet, journalist and writer (one of over 19 writers in prison at the moment) he was sentenced (with 5 others) in October 2009 to 6 years in prison for "propaganda against the Communist system". His health is now deteriorating badly in B14 Labour camp outside Saigon. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, aged 43. An entrepreneur, who started a mobile phone company, he was arrested in 2009 for setting up a blog and study group entitled “The Change we need”. Originally charged with "theft of telephone lines", this was changed to "acting to overthrow the people's Government". After one day’s trial on 20th May 2010 he was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Alleged to have suffered torture and extortion while under arrest, he is now in prison camp B34. The arrangements are as follows: TIME TIME We will meet at 11.00am, Sunday 13th May 2012 We would expect to be gone by 12.30 pm. VENUE We will meet outside the Vietnamese Embassy, 12 Victoria Rd., W8 5RD (off Kensington Rd.), (google Vietnamese Embassy London for a map).