VIU activist flees to Cambodia

A recent news item from the Committee to Protect Vietnamese Workers (with thanks to Trung):

In January 2007, Đào Văn Thuy joined the Vietnamese Independent Union and wrote an article on the VIU, published on protectVietworkers.com. As an active member of VIU, he has also performed a number of important tasks for it.

In January 2007, immediately after his VIU membership was known and his article was published, the Vietnamese regime told his employer to sack him. A number of overseas Viets volunteered to send him money to help fight what many regarded as a mean, gutter-level act of the regime. However, Thuy refused such assistance.

Now, for his personal safety as the regime has been rounding up civil rights and democracy advocates, he had to flee to Cambodia. CPVW will help him to seek asylum status at the UNHCR.

In Cambodia, there are several Vietnamese asylum seekers and recognised refugees. Their safety is uncertain, as the Hanoi regime has in the past sent secret agents to capture asylum seekers. They fled Vietnam with little more than the clothes on their back, and find it hard to make a living in Cambodia. They need overseas Viets' financial assistance, and CPVW is sending some money to assist them.