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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Basford Canales

‘We always do everything together’: Chloe has no way to contact her husband, a democracy campaigner detained in Vietnam

Detained Australian man Tran Hiep and his wife, Chloe Dang.
Detained Australian man Tran Hiep and his wife, Chloe Dang. Photograph: Chloe Dang

Tran Hiep spent his 51st birthday alone in a notorious detention centre in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City after his sudden arrest last month.

The Melbourne-based Vietnamese-Australian democracy campaigner has not been heard from since mid-September, when Vietnamese authorities detained him for alleged terrorism and forging identity documents.

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