Trương Minh Đức * Translated by Như Ngọc (Danlambao) - Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Lien, mother of the prisoner of conscience Nguyen Dinh Kha, and five relatives and friends went to Xuyen Moc prison in Ba Ria, Vung Tau to visit Kha on March 22, 2015; however, they could not give him supplies because Kha and 7 other prisoners of conscience have been on a hunger strike demanding the right to receive books, pens and writing papers according to Article 15 of the prison regulations mandated by the so-called Department 8 of the Ministry of Public Security.
This Xuyen Moc prison doesn’t allow prisoners of conscience to buy groceries from prison-run stores. Prisoners are confined in very crowded cells, lack of drinking water and sun lights. Most prisons do not comply with their own rules. Prison police always treat prisoners of conscience unreasonably and unruly under the orders of their superiors. In fact, the rules of Department 8 of the Ministry of Public Security only serve the purpose of dealing with condemnations from human rights organizations.
Most prisons in Vietnam deploy the policy of terrorizing the mind and body of prisoners of conscience to the last days of their prison term. This is the method the Vietnamese Communist Party has been using to rule the entire nation. Those who want to speak and fight for democracy and human rights are persecuted with many different forms, and when they are imprisoned the communists continue to torture them with any possible means in order to humiliate the will of their struggle.
But, the Vietnamese communists are getting backfire for implementing inhuman measures of torture in a despicable way against the prisoners and right activists because they only make the public see clearer the brutal nature of the ruling dictatorship! And for a prisoner of conscience, after the release, he or she can only become much more inspirational and mature because the prison is a very valuable training place! Also, prison is where a person can clearly identify the nature of the evil rulers of Hanoi regime.