Newspapers and lawyers, including a former Chief of Police of Ho Chi Minh city, raised big concerns over the legitimacy of various evidences presented in court, including the murder weapons, which were bought new and added some 5 months after the murder to the exhibitions.
It is believed that the police actually fabricated many of the evidences. It was also believed that this young man, Ho Duy Hai, was put to death to protect the real culprit: the son of a high ranking official. The case has now been reported to the Amnesty International and the European Union, as all attempts to appeal the possibly wrong death sentence had been turned down by the Vietnamese authorities .
On the 29 Nov 2014, Mrs Loan, the mother of Ho Duy Hai, the man due to be executed soon, went to the Supreme Court in Ha Noi to try to protest his innocence. She had done this in despair over 7 years long but no one wanted to hear her. Again here, she was refused attendance and was not even allowed past the gate. As Mrs Loan desperately held the banner saying her son is innocent to the rails of the gate, a security guard in plain clothes came out to chase her away and tried to grab the banner from her, causing her to fall to the ground.
Mr Truong Van Dung, a friend of Mrs Loan, was filming the scene when a young man, known to be the Leader of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Editor of Viet Vision and a medical student turned up on his motorbike. His name is Minh Anh Do (the one wearing glasses). He is a well known face at any demonstration of the people, always taking the stance to protect the Communist Party and abusing the pro democrats.
Minh Anh Do drove right up to Mr Truong Van Dung and started to verbally abuse him, raving the engine to intimidate and pointing a finger at his face. He loudly declared that since his parents were communists his only interest is to protect the regime, and anyone asking for democracy is his enemy. He then raved the engine some more and pushed forwards, trying to run Mr Truong over, forcing him to take several steps back and was unable to continue filming what was happening to Mrs Loan at the time. Anh Minh Do then hit Mr Truong on the head, knocked his hat off and tried to grab the camera.
The whole thing happened right in front of the Supreme Court, in plain view of several policemen guarding the gates, who no doubt had heard everything, yet turned a blind eye. How and why would Vietnamese police allow such criminal treatments of the innocent people right in front of the building of Laws? Are they the one backing these " youths " in abusing anyone who dares fight for justice and human rights?
Furthermore, later on the same day, Minh Anh Do used his Facebook account to rave about this "victory" and threaten anyone who dares speak against the Communist Party that he will not hesitate to beat him or her up.
If the Vietnamese government respects its own laws and respects the various agreements it had signed on Humans Rights with the United Nations, then it can not and should not allow the leader of the Ho Chi Minh Youth Union, an organization run by the government, supposedly to train the elites of the young people of Viet Nam, to so blatantly break the laws right in the middle of Ha Noi like that.
Such a behavior would never be tolerated in a Western free and democratic country, it would be condemned and prosecuted. Vietnamese police should not allow this to happen again. It will only bring shame to the regime and to the country.
Please see the entire video clip below on Youtube.
