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Nguyen Bac Truyen

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 117346, tabled on 4 December 2017

Question

Stephen Timms
Labour
East Ham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Government of Vietnam on the arrest in July 2017 of human rights defender, Nguyen Bac Truyen.

Answer

Mark Field
Conservative
Cities of London and Westminster
Commons

Answered on

7 December 2017

​I am aware of and concerned by the arrest of human rights defender Nguyen Bac Truyen in Vietnam. Officials from the British Embassy in Hanoi met members of his family in November to discuss his case. We have raised our wider concerns about increased restrictions on freedom of expression and the detention of human rights defenders in Vietnam most recently at the UN Human Rights Council in September; and we continue to call for the release of all prisoners of conscience. I shall be travelling to Vietnam in January to co-chair the next UK-Vietnam Strategic Dialogue, when I shall raise our concerns over this and other cases.

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