Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh spent two weeks (from April 4 to 17, 2014) in Berlin to meet with members of the German Government and Parliament to advocate for the freedom of her daughter Do Thi Minh Hanh who is held in the prison Thanh Xuan in Hanoi,Vietnam.

^{Pic 1: Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh met the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag in Berlin on Apr. 8, 2014.}

A labor rights activist Ms. Do Thi Minh Hanh has organized a workers’ strike against the labor exploitation and insults of female workers in a shoe factory in January 2010. She was arrested in February 2010 and later sentenced to seven years imprisonment on the charge of “disrupting security” according to §89 of Vietnamese Criminal Code.

Her mother, Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh, fled out of Vietnam in 2012 to raise her cry for help to the international community. In Berlin Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh expressed her very concern about the health of her daughter who is severely ill due to torture and lack of medical treatment. Since her daughter is held in prison in Hanoi – which is 1,700 km away from her hometown – her family can’t visit Mrs. Do Thi Minh Hanh regularly and provide her with food and medicine.

During her time in Berlin Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh met the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag (Pic 1), and two members of the committee who have taken sponsorship for her daughter: the chairman Michael Brand (Pic 2) and Sabine Baetzling-Lichtenthaeler (Pic 3), and also the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Mr. Christoh Straesser (Pic 4). Subsequently a member of the German Bundestag, Mr. Frank Heinrich visited her daughter Do Thi Minh Hanh in Thanh Xuan Prison in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Pic 2: Michael Brand Chairman of Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag	Pic 3: Sabine Baetzling-Lichtenthaeler Member of Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag

^{Pic 4: Meeting with Mr. Christoh Straesser, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid in Berlin on Apr 8, 2014}

^{Pic 5: MP Frank Heinrich (third from left), member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
of the German Bundestag, met Do Thi Minh Hanh in Thanh Xuan Prison in Hanoi on Apr. 24, 2014}

Read more:

• Vietnam: Labor rights activist Do Thi Minh Hanh (case description 2014)
• Advocacy for labor rights activist Do Thi Minh Hanh in Germany in 2014
• Sponsorship by MP Sabine Baetzling-Lichtenthaeler, Member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag (German only)
• German Committee on Human Rights welcomes the release of the Vietnamese human rights activist Do Thi Minh Hanh – Engagement of “Members of Parliament protect Members of Parliament” (Website of German Bundestag)
• MdP Philipp Lengsfeld supports a dissident (Website of German Bundestag)
• MdP Martin Patzelt: Don’t forget a human rights activist in Vietnam (Newsletter of MP Martin Patzelt)
• Mother of the prisoner Do Thi Minh Hanh speaks at the German Bundestag, Radio France International, Apr. 13, 2014 (Vietnamese only)
• Veto! Human Rights Defenders Network, Radio Free Asia, Apr. 17, 2014 (Vietnamese only)

More photos of Minh Hanh’s mother, Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh, on Website of German Bundestag:

• Pic 1: Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh met Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag
• Pic 2: Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh met Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag
• Pic 3: Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh met Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag