MP Dött, Mrs. Minh Khanh, MP Lengsfeld on May 24, 2016 in Berlin

Mrs. Vu Minh Khanh travelled to many countries to campaign for the release of her husband, the lawyer and human rights defender Nguyen Van Dai, who is held incommunicado since December 2015 in Hanoi.

Mrs. Khanh visited Mrs. Marie-Luise Dött, Member of the German Bundestag, on May 24, 2016 in her Bundestag’s office in Berlin. She reported her and Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld, Member of the German Bundestag, that her husband is held incommunicado since his arrest. Neither his family nor his lawyer could visit him in prison. MP Dött and MP Lengsfeld shared her concerns and promised to advocate for the immediate and unconditional release of her husband.

MP Dött assumed the parliamentary sponsorship for the Vietnamese lawyer Nguyen Van Dai in February 2016. She met Nguyen Van Dai in Hanoi during a visit of the Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.

See:

• Viet Nam must immediately release prisoners of conscience Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà, Joint statement of 7 NGOs on February 19, 2016
• Case report: Arrest of lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and Ms. Le Thu Ha in Vietnam (pdf), [English] [16 December 2015]