Birth date: October 10, 1953
Activity: Farmer, land rights activist
Date of arrest: July 20, 2010
Sentence: Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment followed by 3 years house arrest on May 30, 2011
Charge: Attempting to overthrow the government (Article 79)
Current location: Ben Tre Detention Center, Ben Tre Province
Nguyen Thanh Tam is a member of Viet Tan. For the last 20 years, he has helped victims of corruption in Ben Tre province petition for government redress. In 2011, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that the Hanoi government’s detention and conviction of Nguyen Thanh Tam and 6 other activists is in violation of international law.