March 7, 2013
Nguyen Hoang Vi: Nguyen has spent much of her early 20s under surveillance by security agents for blogging critically about the government. Shortly after we profiled her, she was detained near the courthouse where she was hoping to attend the appeal of three bloggers jailed on anti-state propaganda charges. While in custody, she was sexually assaulted by police and state nurses.
Speaking of her ordeal, Nguyen said, “We can’t allow fear to paralyse us. We must find it deep within our hearts to forgive all that they’re doing to us and to our bodies. Forgiveness is not the same as acceptance. We must let them know that what we are doing is not based on personal hatred of our perpetrators; it is to protect our universal rights, which belong to them as well as us.”
Read more: http://www.ifex.org/international/2013/03/06/iwd_women_foe_champions/
