San Jose, November 4th, 2009
The Honorable Barbara Boxer
Senator
United States Senate
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Re: SOS - Request your humanitarian intervention to release as soon as possible former AFRVN Captain NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, a 33-year political prisoner in Vietnam out of 34 years of the Socialist of Republic of Vietnam’s governance.
Dear Senator Boxer,
This is a highly sympathetic case of Armed Forced of Republic of Vietnam (AFRVN)’s former Captain NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, a prisoner of conscience who has been jailed for 33 years in prison out of 34 years of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s governance in Vietnam. It is our moral and humanitarian duty to urge that you kindly grant us your valuable assistance to help intervene with the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRVN) to request an immediate release of Captain CẦU, one of the most suffering prisoners of conscience of our time.
Following is the summary of Captain CẦU’s biography data and his current health situation:
• Name: Mr. NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU
• Born: 1947 in Vietnam
• Last military rank before April 30, 1975: Served as a Captain in a local military division in Rach Gina (Kien Giang) province.
• Date of arrest and jailed: Since early May 1975.
• Current prison: Hàm Tân Concentration Camp, Unit Z30, Zone 2 in Long Kha’nh Province, Vietnam
• Charge/ Accusation and Sentence: Having been charged/ accused of composing poetry and songs which have been unapproved by the government that aim to call on people to overthrow the SRVN government. Sentence: Life imprisonment without parole.
• Health situation: After 33 years of having been jailed intensively in various solitary confinements, CẦU’s one eye became blind, his other eye also became legally blind, His physical and mental health has been increasingly and seriously deteriorated.
• Family status: His wife and children in Vietnam have been moved to other place without leaving their contact traces after 33-year of CẦU’s life imprisonment.
• Food, money support and visitations from his family members, friends or acquaintances: 100% NONE.
• Witness who used to be held in many years in his same prison: The Venerable Thich Thien Minh who currently resides in Vietnam (his audio testimony in Vietnamese is attached).
• Attachment: His hand-written Motion for Appeal written in Vietnamese to Vietnamese Appellate Court is attached.
We earnestly and humbly urge that you would spare some of your significantly precious time to help NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, the most unfortunate prisoner of conscience, also a former military officer, who had been defeated in the battle field on April 30, 1975 but in his mind he has never been giving up his ideal dream of helping make Vietnam a better nation to live for 85 million Vietnamese people who should be completely entitled to enjoy their true Freedom, Democracy, Human and Civil Rights. This basic standard right for Vietnamese citizens has been clearly stipulated and guaranteed by the Constitution of Vietnam which was legally enacted in 1992 but this constitutional right apparently has never been honored by the current government in real life. Prisoner NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU’s life imprisonment has been a vividly live testimonial that basic right of freedom of speech for Vietnamese citizens has never been honored by the SRVN government.
On behalf of lifetime prisoner of conscience NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU who has been in strict solitary confinements, his long-lost wife and his “fatherless” children, we solemnly pray and honestly wish that God always bless you in your noble mission to help regain justice for defenseless and voiceless prisoner NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, who has been being slowly killed in various prisons in Vietnam for most of his miserable life without our civilized world’s awareness.
Respectfully yours,
Viet Si
International Movement of Freedom, Democracy, Human and Civil Rights for Vietnam
San Jose, California and Quebec, Canada
109 Linmore Drive
Fremont, Ca. 94539
Phone: 510-290-5089
Email: Vietsi2002@yahoo.com
-Attachments/ support documents: To be submitted later and/ or upon their availability.
C.:
- Political and Religious Leaders
- Media
The Honorable Barbara Boxer
Senator
United States Senate
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Re: SOS - Request your humanitarian intervention to release as soon as possible former AFRVN Captain NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, a 33-year political prisoner in Vietnam out of 34 years of the Socialist of Republic of Vietnam’s governance.
Dear Senator Boxer,
This is a highly sympathetic case of Armed Forced of Republic of Vietnam (AFRVN)’s former Captain NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, a prisoner of conscience who has been jailed for 33 years in prison out of 34 years of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s governance in Vietnam. It is our moral and humanitarian duty to urge that you kindly grant us your valuable assistance to help intervene with the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRVN) to request an immediate release of Captain CẦU, one of the most suffering prisoners of conscience of our time.
Following is the summary of Captain CẦU’s biography data and his current health situation:
• Name: Mr. NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU
• Born: 1947 in Vietnam
• Last military rank before April 30, 1975: Served as a Captain in a local military division in Rach Gina (Kien Giang) province.
• Date of arrest and jailed: Since early May 1975.
• Current prison: Hàm Tân Concentration Camp, Unit Z30, Zone 2 in Long Kha’nh Province, Vietnam
• Charge/ Accusation and Sentence: Having been charged/ accused of composing poetry and songs which have been unapproved by the government that aim to call on people to overthrow the SRVN government. Sentence: Life imprisonment without parole.
• Health situation: After 33 years of having been jailed intensively in various solitary confinements, CẦU’s one eye became blind, his other eye also became legally blind, His physical and mental health has been increasingly and seriously deteriorated.
• Family status: His wife and children in Vietnam have been moved to other place without leaving their contact traces after 33-year of CẦU’s life imprisonment.
• Food, money support and visitations from his family members, friends or acquaintances: 100% NONE.
• Witness who used to be held in many years in his same prison: The Venerable Thich Thien Minh who currently resides in Vietnam (his audio testimony in Vietnamese is attached).
• Attachment: His hand-written Motion for Appeal written in Vietnamese to Vietnamese Appellate Court is attached.
We earnestly and humbly urge that you would spare some of your significantly precious time to help NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, the most unfortunate prisoner of conscience, also a former military officer, who had been defeated in the battle field on April 30, 1975 but in his mind he has never been giving up his ideal dream of helping make Vietnam a better nation to live for 85 million Vietnamese people who should be completely entitled to enjoy their true Freedom, Democracy, Human and Civil Rights. This basic standard right for Vietnamese citizens has been clearly stipulated and guaranteed by the Constitution of Vietnam which was legally enacted in 1992 but this constitutional right apparently has never been honored by the current government in real life. Prisoner NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU’s life imprisonment has been a vividly live testimonial that basic right of freedom of speech for Vietnamese citizens has never been honored by the SRVN government.
On behalf of lifetime prisoner of conscience NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU who has been in strict solitary confinements, his long-lost wife and his “fatherless” children, we solemnly pray and honestly wish that God always bless you in your noble mission to help regain justice for defenseless and voiceless prisoner NGUYỄN HỮU CẦU, who has been being slowly killed in various prisons in Vietnam for most of his miserable life without our civilized world’s awareness.
Respectfully yours,
Viet Si
International Movement of Freedom, Democracy, Human and Civil Rights for Vietnam
San Jose, California and Quebec, Canada
109 Linmore Drive
Fremont, Ca. 94539
Phone: 510-290-5089
Email: Vietsi2002@yahoo.com
-Attachments/ support documents: To be submitted later and/ or upon their availability.
C.:
- Political and Religious Leaders
- Media
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