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Viewing cable 07HOCHIMINHCITY1220, LABOR ACTIVISTS CONVICTED

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07HOCHIMINHCITY1220 2007-12-12 15:17 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO9984
PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHNH
DE RUEHHM #1220 3461517
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 121517Z DEC 07
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3425
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 2347
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 3644
UNCLAS HO CHI MINH CITY 001220 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS AND DRL/AWH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB SOCI VM
SUBJECT: LABOR ACTIVISTS CONVICTED 
 
 
Summary 
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1. (SBU) Four United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO) 
activists were convicted on December 10 for "abusing democracy 
and freedom rights to infringe upon the interests of the State 
and the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and 
citizens."  The activists received sentences from one to four 
years in prison for disseminating information critical of the 
GVN's labor and land use policies.  Several other dissident 
trials will take place over the next few weeks, marking, for the 
most part, the final round of convictions for those arrested 
since the GVN's crackdown on pro-democracy groups began in late 
2006.  End Summary. 
 
2. (U) On December 10, Vietnam press reported the convictions of 
four labor activists associated with the United Worker's Farm 
Organization (UWFO), a group of labor organizers formed in late 
2006 with ties to the People's Democratic Party (PDP).  UWFO's 
primary activities have included working with factory workers 
and dispossessed farmers in 2006 to enlist grassroots support 
for the democracy movement.  The People's Court in southern Dong 
Nai province convicted the four for "abusing democracy and 
freedom rights to infringe upon the interests of the State and 
the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and 
citizens" under Article 258 of Vietnam's Penal Code.  The court 
meted out prison sentences of four years and six months to Mr. 
Doan Van Dien, three years to Ms. Tran Thi Le Hong and one year 
and six months to Doan Huy Chuong (Doan Van Dien's son). 
Another activist, Mr. Phung Quang Quyen, was also sentenced to 
one year and six months in prison.  An earlier group of UWFO 
leaders had been sentenced in May 2007. 
 
Activities Centered on Land Rights 
---------------------------------- 
3. (SBU) Vietnamese press reports say that Dien, Hong and Quyen 
were collecting information on land rights disputes, posting the 
information on Internet, and sending it to U.S.-based support 
groups in order to "slander the Vietnamese State."  The reports 
also say Chuong "pretended to be a worker" when he accused the 
GVN of "repressing workers and arresting demonstrators" during 
interviews with Radio Free Asia and Hoa Mai Radio.  Reports also 
accuse Dien of preparing and distributing anti-GVN leaflets 
during last year's APEC meeting in Hanoi.  All three were 
arrested in Dong Nai and have remained in detention since 
November 15, 2006, shortly after the launch of the organization. 
 
Activist Defended Himself 
------------------------- 
4. (SBU) ConGen contacts present at the trial say Dien, a former 
member of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a 
Mennonite preacher, represented himself, Hoang and Chuong at the 
trial.  In his defense, Dien told the judge what he did was not 
wrong and that he acted to "help people in desperate 
situations."  A court-appointed lawyer represented Phung Quang 
Quyen. 
 
5. (SBU)  ConGen's contacts say the court produced leaflets the 
group had allegedly authored calling for factory strikes to 
demand better benefits and salaries as well as land rights 
dispute documents.  The Court accused Dien of disseminating the 
leaflets in Dong Nai province and at one of HCMC's industrial 
parks.  The court also said Dien and the others sent land 
dispute documents to the pro-democracy Lac Hong Party Alliance 
group in the U.S. 
 
Connections with other Dissidents 
--------------------------------- 
6. (SBU) The Lac Hong Party Alliance was formed in January 2006 
by the Vietnam Progression Party (Father Nguyen Van Ly's group) 
and "For the People," a US-based political group led by Nguyen 
Cong Bang.  "For the People" runs the Hoa Mai group, which 
advocates for human rights in Vietnam via their website and 
radio services in the U.S., Europe and Australia. 
 
Comment 
------- 
7. (SBU) This trial is one in a long series of convictions for 
the PDP and other democracy activists arrested since the GVN 
crackdown on dissent began in late 2006.  Post is attempting to 
confirm details regarding several other trials of detained 
dissidents scheduled to take place over the next few weeks. 
These convictions are the final nail in coffin for the fledgling 
democracy movement that existed in Vietnam prior to the GVN 
crackdown.  Most of the leaders of these movements are now 
imprisoned, have fled abroad, are in hiding or are under house 
arrest.  End Comment. 
 
8. (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Hanoi. 
 
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