The deportation of the Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan and his wife from Germany to Vietnam is encountering sharp criticism. The Federal government wants to review the controversial case now.
Writer Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan sat for 20 years in Vietnam in the prison. “Propaganda against the socialist state”, he was accused of in 1979. In 2015, he was finally with his family in Germany, an asylum application. But last week, he and his wife of the Bavarian authorities of Nuremberg were deported to Hanoi.
Immediately after his arrival, the critics of the regime was questioned, according to Alexander Thal from the Bavarian refugee Council for 14 hours by the police. “The man must now hurry back to Germany,” asked Thal. “A better Argument against his deportation as such interrogation, there is not.” For the time being, he was free again, said Nguyen Quang Hong Nhans lawyer Manfred horns of the Bavarian radio. The asylum application was rejected, according to the statement of the Prosecutor on the grounds, Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan was not at risk.
“Authorities ‘ failures” in Bavaria
In the case of politicians and associations, the deportation of the writer’s encounters with criticism. “That Bavarian authorities to deport even more questionable is a Testament of authorities failure,“ said Gyde Jensen, Chairman of the Committee for human rights and humanitarian aid in the Bundestag, the DW. The FDP-politician, accused the Bavarian authorities, it would repeatedly “to make deportations to countries where people continue to be individual persecution”. And also, the Federal government makes the controversial deportation of a Vietnamese dissident in his home check.
Also, the PEN center Germany protested against the deportation. The Vice-President of the writers ‘ Association, Ralf, nest, Meyer called them in an open letter, “incomprehensible, even given the state of health” by Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan. The Dissident had suffered a stroke and is now in a poor state. The writer would threaten in addition, reprisals in Vietnam, as he accepted in his home country as the “enemy of the people”, said nest Meyer.
It is not known where in Hanoi Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan now
Federal foreign office wants to monitor the case
The PEN centre of Germany called the Bavarian interior Minister Herrmann and the head of the BAMF-authority Hans-Eckhard Sommer, to revise the decision in the case of Hong Nhan. The Bavarian Minister of the interior, but, apparently, as the addressee of “not responsible”. His spokesman in Munich, the DW said, you can see the “political sensitivity” of the case, but referred to the Federal authorities: the Federal Foreign office and the BAMF. If these decisions are made not to be tied in Munich to the implementation.
The Foreign office admitted that there had been no findings about whether the writer was currently under house arrest, or how he would be treated. Since it was in the case of Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan, a German national, was a consular on-site support is not possible. “We have made but to continue to monitor the case very closely,” said the spokesperson of the Federal foreign office Maria Adebahr in the intergovernmental conference.
Important author in Vietnam
Since 2015, the family of the Vietnam lived of writer Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan in Nuremberg, Germany. They travel to third-from Vietnam to Germany and the asylum application could found was your big Chance. As a former political detainee, he was not allowed to leave the country at the time, actually. But in 2015, he was gifted his musical to accompany then-underage daughter, Hoi an together with his wife, a competition to Europe. On this trip, the family has requested in Nuremberg political asylum. Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan is one of the major Vietnamese writers, and also politically, as a human rights defender was active.
Four years after his arrival in Germany, he and his wife were deported on 26. March 2019 from Munich via Bangkok to Hanoi. The Federal office for Migration and refugees (BAMF) rejected their asylum applications. Courts of two instances confirmed the decision. What is the influence of the political commitment of the human rights campaigner has had on the decision and the reasons for his bad health condition after a stroke, not an obstacle to the deportation – the BAMF did not want to comment. “The authority will look at the process in more detail”.
Deportation despite the threat of Repression
Meanwhile, the Bavarian Parliament has taken up the case. It was “dismayed” that the authorities had not taken into account the state of health of the Vietnamese, the SPD and the Greens, groups in the Nuremberg town hall. The Bavarian refugee Council calls, in the meantime, the re-entry of the couple, writes the newspaper “taz”, which reported first about the case.
Hans-Eckhard Sommer is the President of the Federal office for Migration (BAMF)
The Writers in Prison Officer of the German PEN-center, Ralf nest Meyer, also expressed his Regret that Vietnam had turned alcoholic writer with his problems to the Association. Of the deportation nest Meyer learned only from the press, he said in an interview with DW. “How can you deport an author, the basis of life is freedom of speech, in a country known for Repression, and censorship?”, nest Meyer asks in his open letter. A Vietnamese from Bavaria has now started a Petition to bring the couple back to Germany.
Also threatened with deportation to the daughter?
Human rights organisations are now committed to the fate of Germany’s remaining 19-year-old daughter of the deported couple Hong. The 19-Year-old studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg, piano. As it is asylum legally in the same Situation as their parents, could also be deported – this is the Chairman of the human rights Committee in the Bundestag Gyde Jensen, DW informed.
Because of documents, no travel, she was not deported for the time being. The city of Nuremberg, reviewed the Situation of the daughter different at the moment. She admits that “currently, at least not threatened with deportation”. The young Vietnamese have a tolerated status.