Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh was physically attacked and injured by Vietnamese police

 

 

 

Vietnamese People's Evangelical Fellowship (VPEF)

Tổ 10 – Hoa lư – TP. Pleiku – Gia lai

Email: vpef. vn.2007@gmail. com

Mobifon: 0939726405

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            At about 7 pm on 7-12-2008, while Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh’s 13-year-old H’ré adopted son Dinh Van Binh  was playing with his own son in front of his house in Hoa Lu district, city of  Pleiku, Mr. Ro Cham Tho, a police on permanent watch on the pastor, appeared and surprisingly gave a hard slap on the child’s right cheek together with some dirty words.

            Upon his son’s report of the incident, Pastor Chinh came out of his home to face the policeman. At that time,  Mr. Tho was joined by  Mr. Hien, another security police in the area. Pastor Chinh asked Mr. Tho why he had hit his son. Mr. Tho denied it. Facing this situation, Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh urged his wife, Mrs. Tran Thi Hong, to notify the local leader. Just as he finished talking to her, he was hit in the belly by Mr. Tho and quickly injured by Mr. Hien with something like a knife, followed by another blow on his right eye with a stone, causing his left arm to be scratched with a 3-inch-long cut and his eye to bleed profusely.

            Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, Chairman of Vietnamese People's Evangelical Fellowship (VPEF), recently had to undergo 60 days of interrogation for his activity of demanding human rights and religious freedom. On May 28, 2008, up to 70 policemen carried out a search of his house where they confiscated his computer CPU and all his personal and VPEF religious documents. He has been orally prohibited by the police from leaving his house, one more measure added to various rude harassments his whole family has to suffer throughout his 20 years living in the region.

         

Reported on July 12, 2008 by Pastor Y-Bon-Niê, a member of the Vietnamese People’s Evangelical Fellowship (VPEF).

 

 

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