Jailed farmer’s wife opposes indictment
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The wife of 49-year-old farmer Doan Van Vuon who is being detained for attacking law officers following a high-profile land withdrawal case in Hai Phong City has demanded a criminal charge against her be cancelled.
Nguyen Thi Thuong has demanded that the Hai Phong City prosecutor's office cancel the criminal charge against her Photo: Tuoi Tre
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The wife Nguyen Thi Thuong and Nguyen Thi Hien - wife of Vuon’s younger brother – yesterday wrote to the city People’s Procuracy and the Police Department, saying they were not present at the eviction scene, so were not involved in attacking law officers who arrived to remove their family by force from the land plot.
The two women demanded that local police and prosecutors remove the charges against them and compensate them for damage caused by their wrong decisions. They also requested punishment to those issuing the indictments.
Hai Phong police said they would meet Thuong and Hien today to get further information in relation to the case.
Vuon was detained on January 5, 2012 pending trial for his violent resistance against policemen and soldiers who carried out a forced removal to reclaim 40 hectares of land that had long been allocated to him in Tien Lang District.
Angry, Vuon and some others caused injuries to 6 police officers. He was arrested along with Thuong and Hien.
Police have since proposed the prosecutor’s office to indict Vuon, Thuong and Hien on the same charge of “resisting law enforcers”.
The case has grabbed international attention after the chairman of Tien Lang District People’s Committee, Le Van Hien, was removed from the post and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stepped in to conclude that the district authorities had violated the Land Law in the said eviction.
As previously reported, at the meeting held on February 10, 2012 Prime Minister Dung ordered all wrong decisions regarding the land withdrawal be revoked and called for returning the land to Vuon’s family.
The PM also concluded that mobilizing the military as was the case was illegal.
However, relevant agencies have yet to complete the procedures for returning the land.