ICC Note:
In a recent interview, Protestant clergyman Reverend Nguyen Trung Ton and his colleague, Reverend Nguyen Viet Tu, claimed security officers kidnapped and beat them in late February. The two Protestant clergymen were meeting with fellow pro-democracy activists. During their travels, the two encountered a group of men forced into a van and took them to a secluded area on the Hương Khê mountain. There, the two Protestant clergymen were stripped of their clothes, robbed, beaten, and left for dead. Fortunately, a local resident discovered and aided the wounded sometime later on the same day as the attack.
03/07/2017 Vietnam (Christian Today) – Two Christian pastors in Vietnam claim that they were kidnapped, stripped of their clothes, robbed and beaten with metal rods by security officers as they tried to make their way to the town of Ba Đồn to meet up with fellow activists subjected to recent police violence.
Protestant clergyman the Rev. Nguyễn Trung Tôn told Radio Free Asia in a recent interview that he and his colleague, the Rev. Nguyễn Việt Tú, were abducted in late February by who they believe to be plain-clothes security officers after they arrived at a local airport, as reported by AsiaNew.It .
Tôn, a pro-democracy activist in the Asian communist country who had previously been imprisoned for his activism, explained that the men were on their way to meet up with other activists in the Quảng Bình province when they encountered a group of men, who punched them and forced them into a van.
According to Tôn’s account, the abductors covered their heads so they couldn’t see where they were being taken. Eventually, they arrived at a secluded wooded area on the Hương Khê mountain, where they were beaten with a metal bar, stripped and robbed.
After the beatings, the abductors left the scene, leaving the pastors to suffer without any help. Fortunately, the pastors were later aided by local residents who discovered the wounded men.
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