Tran Khai Thanh Thuy

Viet Tan has learned that writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy and her husband, Do Ba Tan, were attacked by undercover police in Vietnam. At about 8:30pm on Thursday, October 8, 2009, two thugs stormed into their residence in Hanoi (Kham Thien ward, Dong Da district). The thugs beat the couple with bricks and threatened to stick them with AIDS-infected needles.

About an hour later (9:30pm) uniformed police entered the home and took the couple away. It is believed that they are currently being held at the public security station in Kham Thien ward in Hanoi. Their only child, a 13-year old daughter, is currently at home alone and terrified after witnessing the attack on her parents. Read the rest at Viet Tran.