Phan T?t Thành, Nguy?n Thi Ng?c H?nh, and Nguy?n Chí Tuy?n currently held in Vietnamese communist prison were chosen to receive the 2025 Vietnam Human Rights Award


LITTLE SAIGON, CA, November 14, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Three Vietnamese human rights activists —Mr. Phan Tat Thanh, Mr. Nguyen Chi Tuyen, and Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hanh — currently imprisoned in Vietnam — have been selected to receive the 2025 Vietnam Human Rights Award for their dedicated efforts to advance and champion the Vietnamese people's human rights.

- Activist Phan Tat Thanh, 39 years old, was the administrator of the Facebook page Nhat Ky Yeu Nuoc (Patriotic Diary), often writing comments on human rights violations, environmental pollution, corruption, and China's encroachment on Vietnam's territory. This page once had more than 200,000 registered members.

Vietnamese communist authorities arrested Mr. Thanh on July 13, 2023, on charges of "propaganda against the State." During his detention, the investigating police subjected him to physical and mental abuse to force confessions.

In a quick trial on May 8, 2024, Mr. Thanh was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 3 years of probation. Facing the panel, Mr. Thanh did not plead guilty; instead, he affirmed that his actions were consistent with both the Vietnamese Constitution and the United Nations human rights conventions to which Vietnam is a party. After the judge's verdict, Mr. Thanh shouted, "I do not recognize this trial. This trial is just a form of imposition and oppression against a citizen like me!" He then informed his family that he refused to appeal because he did not trust the communist Vietnamese judicial system. Currently, prisoner of conscience Phan Chi Thanh is being detained at Xuan Loc Prison in Dong Nai Province.

- Activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen, 51 years old, is one of the founders of the "No U" group in 2007, a group that works against China's hegemonic expansion ambitions by redrawing the U-shaped territorial border covering most of the East Sea.

Mr. Nguyen Chi Tuyen was also active on social networks such as Facebook and YouTube, where he speaks out in defense of persecuted human rights activists and criticizes the Vietnamese government across social, environmental, and economic issues. He has been repeatedly assaulted and injured by undercover police.

On February 29, 2024, Vietnamese police broke into Tuyen's home and arrested him. On August 15, 2024, the Hanoi People's Court sentenced him to five years in prison on charges of "conducting propaganda against the State." One of Tuyen's defense lawyers recounted that at a meeting before the trial, Tuyen said, "I can absolutely choose my own safety if I ignore the country's problems. But as a citizen, I cannot help but be responsible for my country."

Currently, Mr. Nguyen Chi Tuyen is being held at Prison No. 6, Nghe An Province.

- Activist Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hanh, 49 years old, was a math teacher at the Canadian International School in Saigon. In 2018, together with some friends across the country, she founded the Constitution Group, an independent civil activist group, to promote the implementation of citizens' rights stipulated in the Vietnamese Constitution, especially the rights to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the right to participate in state management.
The group's primary means of operation is social media, where they discuss violations of the Constitution by officials across the country that cause harm to the people. They also participated in protests against the Law on Special Economic Zones and the Law on Cyber Security in June 2018.

The police kidnapped Ms. Hanh on the street on the evening of September 3, 2018. After 11 months of detention, her family was allowed to visit her for the first time. During that time, she was held in solitary confinement and tortured to extract confessions.

Nearly two years after her arrest, the Vietnamese authorities brought Ms. Hanh and other group members to trial on July 31, 2020. The group of eight were sentenced to a total of 40 and a half years in prison on charges of "Disruption of security," with Ms. Hanh receiving the highest sentence of 8 years of imprisonment because the government believes that Ms. Hanh was the mastermind.

Prisoner of conscience Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hanh is currently being held at An Phuoc prison, Phu Giao district, Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnam Human Rights Network established the Vietnam Human Rights Award in 2002 to honor individuals and organizations that have outstanding achievements in defending the Vietnamese people's rights. The Vietnam Human Rights Award also aims to create a bridge of solidarity between Vietnamese people everywhere and individuals and organizations advocating for human rights in the homeland.

Since its establishment, 63 individuals and six organizations in Vietnam have received the Vietnam Human Rights Award. Over the past 22 years, the Award Ceremony has been held on International Human Rights Day in many cities worldwide, such as Paris (France), Frankfurt (Germany), Melbourne (Australia), Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto (Canada), and several cities in the United States. The 2015 Vietnam Human Rights Award Ceremony will be held on December 7, 2025, in Montreal, Canada, with the cooperation of the Vietnam Human Rights Network and the Vietnamese Community of Montreal.

The Vietnam Human Rights Network's mission is to defend and promote human rights, civil liberties and all other fundamental freedoms for all Vietnamese citizens set forth by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and subsequent international human rights instruments. For more information visit https://www.vietnamhumanrights.net

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