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second time for 3 months (first 7 days for interrogation and re-education).
Pastor Hung, who has not been formally tried or convicted, is believed to be
held in administrative detention at the re-education/labour camp A-20 in Dong
Xuan, in Phu Yen province.
Pastor
charge of 14
in June 1991
detention at
formal trial
Rmah Loan, a minister belonging to the Mnong minority, was in
house church congregations in the Darlac region. He was arrested
for unknown reasons and is believed to be held in administrative
a prison at Banmethuot, Darlac province, reportedly without
or conviction.
Pastor Tran The Thien Phuoc, the leader of a house church in Ho Chi Minh
City, was arrested in November 1989 while on his way to a meeting with other
Christians and was allegedly charged with "disturbing the peace". He has
lived in Cay Truong II, Ben Cat, Song Be province. Pastor Phuoc is reportedly
detained in a re-education/labour camp for the third time, and is serving a
three-year administrative detention sentence at a camp near Tong Le Chan, Song
Be province, although he has never been formally tried or convicted.
Pastor Ya Tiem, a minister belonging to the Koho minority from the
highlands, was arrested in June 1991 for unknown reasons. He is believed to
be held in administrative detention in a prison in Dalat, Lam Dong province,
although he has reportedly not been formally tried or convicted.
Rev. Dinh Thien Tu, the minister of the largest independent house church
movement in Viet Nam which reportedly comprises several thousand worshippers,
was arrested on 22 February 1991 in Ho Chi Minh City, shortly before midday,
allegedly for operating a social work programme without the approval of the
Government and for alleged unauthorized contacts with foreign Christian
groups. The arrest warrant, presented to his wife in the afternoon, allegedly
charged him with ’using religion as a pretext for disturbing the peace’. His
house was searched and documents were confiscated. He is believed to be under
a three-year administrative detention sentence, although he has not been
formally tried or convicted. According to the information received, Rev. Tu
was initially detained at the Phan-dinh-Luu prison, Gia Dinh, in Ho Chi Minh
City and was not allowed to receive family visits for four months. He is
believed to have been moved at the end of November 1991 to a labour camp in
the Song Be province. Rev. Tu, who has been accused of ’teaching false
theories and not observing the rules and regulations of the church’, was
reportedly suspended from all pastoral duties and evicted from the church
parsonage.
Pastor Tran Xuan Tu, a minister from Vo Dat, The Duc Linh district of
Thuan Hai province, is said to have been forced to remove the cross from his
house church, which was subsequently occupied by the authorities. He was
initially arrested in 1985 during a house church meeting held in his home and
reportedly served a three-year administrative detention sentence at a
re-education/labour camp in Vo Dat. In 1988, he is believed to have been
given an additional three-year administrative detention sentence at the same
camp in Vo Dat.
Ha Hak, a minister belonging to the Koho highlands minority, is reported
to have been imprisoned in December 1991.