[7][8] Oai had participated in activities that protect workers’ rights in Binh Duong province,[3] Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City, and also joined in on protests in anti-Chinese aggression towards Vietnam.
Along with the other activists on trial, Oai was also accused of participating in Việt Tân, a US-based pro-democracy organization to establish democracy and reform Vietnam through peaceful and political means.
[11] His arrest was part of the Vietnamese government's latest crackdown on bloggers and citizen journalists including Formosa reporter Nguyễn Văn Hoá.
Inmates of the Catholic faith are further discriminated against by being denied religious reading materials and prohibited from praying or observing their rights, with no other means of expressing their protests beyond hunger strikes.
The petition requests the UNWGAD to call upon the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) to release all of the detainees immediately to remedy the human rights violations stemming from their arbitrary arrest and detention.
[7] On November 28, 2013, the UNWGAD had ruled in favor of the petition, stating that Vietnam violated its international human rights obligations and must “immediate[ly] release” the prisoners of conscience.