Ms. Can Thi Theu is a woman human rights defender and mother of Mr. Trinh Ba Phuong and Mr. Trinh Ba Tu. She advocates for environmental and land rights and since 2007, she has focussed on documenting land seizures in Hanoi and its surrounding provinces. She is a vocal supporter of the publishing company Liberal Publishing House, particularly with regards to the book “A Handbook for Families of Prisoners” which provides practical and advocacy related guidance for families of detainees in Viet Nam. On June 24, 2020, Can Thi Theu was arrested with her two sons on charges of “creating, storing, and disseminating information, documents, items and publications opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.” The three family members had been outspoken in social media postings about the Jan. 9, 2020 clash in Dong Tam commune in which 3,000 police stormed barricaded protesters’ homes at an airport construction site about 25 miles south of the capital, killing a village leader Le Dinh Kinh. Many of the 9,000 residents of Dong Tam have spent a number of years peacefully opposing the construction, fearing that there could be further displacement resulting from the 50 hectares of farming land that they have already lost. Allegedly, they were not properly consulted at any point during the planning or construction of the airport. The Hanoi Inspectorate rejected the farmer’s claims that 47 hectares (116 acres) of their farmland was seized for the military-run Viettel Group—Vietnam’s largest mobile phone operator—without adequate compensation.