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Viewing cable 07HOCHIMINHCITY248, FATHER LY INDICTED; DO NAM HAI QUITS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07HOCHIMINHCITY248 2007-03-19 10:42 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO8845
PP RUEHDT RUEHPB
DE RUEHHM #0248/01 0781042
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 191042Z MAR 07
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2234
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 2408
RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 1596
RUCNARF/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
RHEHNSC/WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HO CHI MINH CITY 000248 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
SUBJECT: FATHER LY INDICTED; DO NAM HAI QUITS 
 
REF: A. HCMC 225; B) HCMC 204 AND PREVIOUS; C) HANOI 468 
 
     B. AND PREVIOUS 
 
HO CHI MIN 00000248  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  Hue-based dissident Father Phan Van Loi 
confirmed as authentic Internet reports that Hue 
authorities have indicted Father Nguyen Van Ly and four 
others for "propagandizing against the government."  In 
HCMC, political activist Do Nam Hai told us he has ended 
his pro-democracy activism in the face of severe pressure 
on his family and the threat of his imminent prosecution. 
Hai's withdrawal from the pro-democracy movement, Father 
Ly's arrest and the detention of over 20 other key 
grassroots pro-democracy activists in HCMC and elsewhere 
means that, for all intents and purposes, the GVN has 
suppressed the grassroots dissident movement that briefly 
emerged in the south in  2006.  End Summary. 
 
Father Ly Formally Indicted 
--------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) On March 19, we spoke by phone with Hue-based 
activist Father Phan Van Loi, who confirmed the 
authenticity of documents posted on overseas dissident 
websites purporting to be the police report and indictment 
papers against Father Nguyen Van Ly.  Also indicted were 
Vietnam Progression Party (VPP) representatives Nguyen 
Phong, Nguyen Binh Thanh, Hoang Thi Anh Dao and Le Thi Le 
Hang.  The five were indicted based on Article 88 of 
Vietnam's Criminal Code, which outlaws "activities to 
propagandize against the State." 
 
3. (SBU) Father Loi said that the documents assert that 
Father Ly coordinated and disseminated anti-government 
propaganda and "lured others into anti-government 
activities."  The police report also noted that Father Ly 
paid associates a monthly allowance to carry out "political 
activities," such as posting materials on the Internet or 
purchasing cell phone SIM cards on his behalf.  According 
to the Internet report, the police recommended that Ly 
receive a tough punishment because of his "provocative and 
uncooperative behavior" during the investigation. 
 
4. (SBU) Hue authorities recommended lenient treatment of 
the four VPP members because of their cooperation during 
the investigation.  The police noted that Nguyen Phong, the 
VPP's senior-most representative, founded the VPP on Ly's 
instructions.  The police report also notes that detained 
Hanoi-based lawyer Le Thi Cong Nhan also was a member of 
the VPP and recommends that Hanoi police reflect that fact 
in its investigation against her.  Hue police identified 
Hong Trung as a hitherto unknown VPP member in the Central 
Highlands province of Gia Lai and recommended police action 
against him as well. 
 
Do Nam Hai Finally Breaks 
------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Separately on March 19, we also spoke with HCMC- 
based dissident Do Nam Hai (strictly protect), regarding 
Internet reports that he had ended his involvement in 
dissident activities.  Hai told us that, over the past 
week, the police had "held his family hostage" to pressure 
him to renounce his activism.  The situation came to a head 
on March 16, when he was again summoned to his district 
police station for interrogation.  Three hours later, 
police brought his father, his older sister and his 
daughter to the station and announced that the authorities 
had a prosecution indictment ready against Hai.  The police 
claimed that they had been holding back for "humanitarian 
reasons" and wanted to give Hai a "last chance" to avoid 
"killing" his 82-year-old mother who suffers from heart 
problems. 
 
6. (SBU) Hai said that, following the police announcement, 
his family members started to cry and to beg him to follow 
police advice.  Hai blasted the police tactic as 
"malicious" and "disgusting," but told us he was afraid 
that his mother would indeed die were he to be arrested, so 
he relented.  At first, police asked him to write a letter 
committing to drop his political activism, which Hai agreed 
to do.  However, later, the police demanded him to write a 
more expansive letter acknowledging that he was guilty of 
violating Vietnamese law and begging the GVN for mercy. 
After nearly 12 hours in police custody, Hai relented.  Hai 
asked that the letter not be used to incriminate him, and 
asked for a written confirmation from the police.  The 
police refused. 
 
7. (SBU) According to Hai, he still has to go to working 
sessions with the police for the rest of this week to 
answer about the documents the police confiscated from his 
 
HO CHI MIN 00000248  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
house in the past.  Hai said he told the police to end its 
surveillance and leave him and his family alone; otherwise 
he would resume his political activities.  Hai still 
welcomed interaction with USG officials.  Hai also said he 
planned to become active in stock trading as a private 
investor and financial adviser. 
 
8. (SBU) On March 16, the Alliance for Democracy and Human 
Rights for Viet Nam -- the dissident umbrella organization 
founded by Ly and Hai -- announced that Father Loi and 
HCMC-based Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang would replace 
Nguyen Phong and Do Nam Hai. 
 
9. (SBU) Comment: As reported reftel, Hai was the author of 
the pro-democracy 8406 bloc manifesto and the intellectual 
backbone of the new generation of political dissidents. 
His forced withdrawal from the pro-democracy movement that 
he helped found, along with the detention of Father Ly and 
at least 20 other new activists throughout the country 
(reftels) means that the GVN has effectively suppressed the 
grassroots pro-democracy movement that emerged in southern 
and central Vietnam in 2006.  A number of aged dissidents 
such as Dr. Nguyen Dan Que and Tran Khue are "free," but 
under strict surveillance.  Although they do not have the 
credibility of Do Nam Hai or Ly, it is very possible that 
Father Loi and Pastor Quang -- long-term irritants for the 
GVN in their own right -- also will be detained or face 
tougher pressure for their political activism. 
 
10. (SBU) Comment continued:  Despite police "goodwill," Do 
Nam Hai could still be indicted.  In mid-February, VPP 
activist Nguyen Phong was detained briefly and forced to 
write a letter formally disbanding his party.  Nonetheless, 
a month later he and his other VPP colleagues were indicted 
along with Father Ly. 
WINNICK