CTV Danlambao - Translated by Như Ngọc (Danlambao) - The activist and freelance journalist Truong Minh Duc is allegedly assaulted by a dozen of plainclothes police in a brutal attack around 2 p.m. on Sept. 08, 2014, at Kham Thien, Dong Da district in Hanoi, while taking a taxi with Do Thi Minh Hanh, Truong Van Dung, and Tran Thi Nga heading to the Public Security Headquarters to find out why Hanh was banned from leaving the country to visit her ailing mother in Austria.
Along the way, the activists had been closely chased by plainclothes security agents. When their taxi arrived at Kham Thien, a motorbike suddenly cut it off forcing it to stop, then a dozen of men rushed in to carry out the terror attack. The men dragged the taxi driver and Duc from the front passenger seat out of the taxi and brutally beat him. Duc collapsed on the street but the men reportedly continued to kick him, inflicting head and major injuries on his body.
The quick attack caught everyone surprised. When the other activists and a foreigner couple came to help Duc, the men rode their motorbikes away. Duc was taken to the emergency room at the Vietnam-France Hospital at No. 1 Phuong Mai Street, Dong Da District in Hanoi.
Photo: Facebook Trần Thị Nga
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Mrs. Tran Thi Nga recognizes and confirms the security agent who carried out a fatal attack against her, which left her broken arm and leg, on May 25, 2014, was among the attackers today.
Earlier, on March 03, 2014, the activist Truong Van Dung was attacked with iron tubes by four plainclothes security agents near Nam Dong gas station at the corner of Ho Dac Di and Nguyen Luong Bang in Dong Da district.
The attacks targeting activists have systematically taken place. Obviously, the communist authorities have disguised their security apparatus as thugs for carrying assaults against those who dare to speak up for freedom and human rights for the people of Vietnam.
