“From Thanh Hoa prison, my sister Tan called me saying she is sick and
coughing a lot. A number of prisoners are recently transferred to her
cell; they insult her and beat her if she talks back. They traduce our
mother [Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng] by making rude gestures towards her
picture. My sister Tan said she filed a complaint about it, and if she
won’t call home next month it would mean they attack her,” Mrs. Ta Minh
Tu, a younger sister of Mrs. Ta Phong Tan, told VRNs reporter.
She angrily added, “I am disappointed with this regime. The deceased
cannot rest. Without the backing of someone, which prisoner would dare
to act like that?”
“There is nothing disgusting and despicable than an insult to the dead,
especially to a great mother. This is the game of the prison guards. I
had been there so I know it. Usually, ordinary prisoners respect and
[listen to] the prisoners of conscience,” said blogger Phan Thanh
Nghien.
Currently, blogger Ta Phong Tan is detained at Prison No. 5 in Yen Dinh,
Thanh Hoa, which reports to the Ministry of Public Security.
Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng, mother of blogger Ta Phong Tan and Mrs. Ta Minh
Tu, committed a self-immolation protest at the headquarters of Bac Lieu
Provincial Committee on July 30, 2012, stirring up the public opinion
at home and abroad. At that time, blogger Ta Phong Tan was detained at
Prison No. 4 on Phan Dang Luu Street, Binh Thanh district, Saigon.
On September 24, 2012, the communist regime ordered a court to sentence
blogger Ta Phong Tan to 10 years in prison on charge of “making
propaganda against the State” under paragraph 2 of Article 88 of the
Penal Code, and the appeal trial on December 28, 2012 upheld the
sentence. Blogger Ta Phong Tan has rejected this unjust verdict.
Blogger Ta Phong Tan wrote and posted more than 700 articles on her
Justice and Truth blog, exposing social problems in Vietnam such as
child abuse, corruption, illegal land confiscation carried out by local
party officials, and professional analysis on legal issues.
Before becoming a freelance writer, Ta Phong Tan was a police officer of
Hanoi regime. Her former career gives her a deep knowledge and keen
vision on how the regime rules the country.
VRNs / Translate by Nhu Ngoc
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