Friday, December 14, 2012

PHAN VĂN BÀN

Họ Tên: PHAN VĂN BÀN
Năm Sinh: 1937
Tổ Chức: K/B
Ngày bị bắt: 1978
Ngày Xử: 26/11/1985
Bị kết tội: "Phụ trách công tác tuyên truyền của một tổ chức rải
truyền đơn chống chính quyền ở tỉnh Bà Rịa"
Án tù: Chung thân tù giam
Released
197800
Compiled by the Archive of Vietnamese Political Prisoners (www.VKTNCT.net). Please contact us for an update report

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Phan Van Ban

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phan Van Ban (Vietnamese: Phan Văn Bàn) is a political dissident who spent 29 years in jail in Vietnam, after the fall of Saigon.

Phan Van Ban was born in 1937 in Tu An commune, Tu Nghia district, central Quang Ngai province. He was a former police officer of the pre-1975 South Vietnam regime in Dalat, was in charge of propaganda for the organisation that dropped anti-government documents and leaflets in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. He has been in jail since 1978 and a People's Courtsentenced him to life in prison in 1985, in Prison Camp Nam Ha in northern Vietnam.

"The release of Phan Van Ban is a welcome development," said Angela Aggeler, the press attache for the US embassy in Hanoi. "He's been held in prison for more than 20 years after calling for peaceful political change in Vietnam. We are pleased that Mr Ban will be able to join his family in the US."

The communist government has still to account for numerous religious and political prisoners remaining in prisons and Human-rights groups said Vietnam has stepped up its crackdown on dissidents. More than a dozen pro-democracy activists have been arrested since November 2006. The United States last year placed Vietnam on a blacklist of "countries of particular concern" for abusing rights to worship.

Van Thanh, who was a political prisoner released from the Vietnamese communist camp on November 5, 1998, now living in France, revealed that there were at least 37 other political prisoners being held at Prison Camp Thanh Hoa Five and Prison Camp Nam Ha. (List: [1])