Bức thư tay do Luật sư Lê Quốc Quân viết chuyển ra bên ngoài khẳng
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tới đây.
Theo RFA Việt ngữ
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Le Quoc Quan trial puts Vietnamese activists in spotlight
Updated
"With our youngest daughter - she was only nearly one when he was arrested - so she wouldn't recognise him now."
Mr Quan has previously been jailed before, interrogated and beaten.
His brother, Le Quoc Quyet, says the family has also been targeted, with a cousin and another brother jailed too.
"The reason is Quan's advocacy," he said.
"The whole family has been harassed many times over, both in our work and our lives, because if it's just harassment against Quan the pressure wouldn't be enough.
"So they want to create more pressure by arresting his family members in an attempt to pressure Quan and to force him to abandon his work."
Mr Quan's lawyer Ha Huy Son says his own safety and that of his family are also at risk.
"When I take up cases like these, my friends and my family members worry about me and they also keep their distance," he said.
Vietnam is becoming notorious for heavy-handed action against peaceful activists who criticise the policies of the one party communist state.
The government in turn attempts to intimidate and silence them.
Last year, Mr Quan spoke to the ABC after three of his fellow bloggers were sentenced to hefty jail terms.
"These bloggers, they have only one thing they would like to do is to tell about the truth in Vietnam," he said.
"To tell about the current situation, about the social, economic and political system in Vietnam.
"You know, this is terrible."
