Birth date: 1964
Activity: Farmer, poet
Date of arrest: September 10, 2008
Sentence: Sentenced to 4 years imprisonment followed by 3 years house arrest on October 9, 2009
Charge: Propaganda against the socialist state (Article 88)
Current location: Prison Camp K1, Ha Nam Province
Nguyen Van Tuc is known for his writings against social injustice, especially an August 2006 letter denouncing the corruption of communist officials in Thai Binh province and an article titled “The Party, then and now” where he criticizes the current policies of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Arrested in September 2008 for participating in the hanging of banners calling for democracy, Nguyen Van Tuc was detained without trial for over a year.
