Doan Huy Chuong

Labor organizer

Birth date: 1985

Activity: Labor organizer

Date of arrest: February 13, 2010

Sentence: Sentenced to 7 years imprisonment on October 27, 2010

Charge: Disrupting security and order against the people’s administration (Article 89)

Current location: Tra Vinh Province


Doan Huy Chuong (aka Nguyen Tan Hoang) is a founding member of the United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO). He was previously imprisoned for 18 months in 2006 for promoting worker rights. He was again arrested in February 2010 for helping to organize a strike by 10,000 workers at the My Phong shoe factory and having contact with the overseas-based Committee to Protect Vietnamese Workers.