Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) 27/05/2016 JUA VNM 3/2016 Viet Nam Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of opinion and expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Religion or belief; Torture; Violence against women Alleged arbitrary detention of a Lutheran pastor and harassment and torture of his wife, in Gia Lai province, Vietnam. According to the information received, Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh was arrested on 28 April 2011, repeatedly tortured and sentenced to 11 years in prison for “undermining national unity policy”. He remains in prison. On 14 April 2016, Mrs. Tran Thi Hong, his wife, was arrested for several hours and tortured by the police, who tried to force her to provide information on a meeting she had held on 30 April 2016 with the Ambassador-atLarge for International Religious Freedom of the United States of America. She is regularly subjected to surveillance and harassment by the police. Despite Mr. Nguyen Cong Chinh’s attempts to have the Lutheran American-Vietnamese Protestant Church registered according to Vietnamese law, its application was rejected in 2010. 27/05/2016 JUA VNM 4/2016 Viet Nam Arbitrary Detention; Freedom of opinion and expression; Human rights defenders; Torture Allegations of persecution, ill-treatment and forced transfer of a Vietnamese national who is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for "attempting to overthrow the People's administration". According to the information received, on 5 May 2016, Mr. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was handcuffed for 24 hours and his mouth covered, while he was forcibly transferred to Nghe An prison camp, which is reportedly notorious for its ill-treatment and harassment of detainees. It is reported that, on 14 May 2016, Mr. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc appeared to have lost weight, with ‘big dark circles’ under his eyes, and that, on 24 May 2016, he commenced a hunger strike in protest of being deprived of family contact, experiencing harassment in prison, and in order to demand the Vietnamese Government to respect the rule of law and human rights, and let the people vote on the form of government they want. Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply A/HRC/33/32 95