Mr. Trinh Ba Tu is a human rights defender and brother of well-known land-rights activist Mr. Trinh Ba Phuong. Trinh Ba Tu documents alleged human rights abuses related to the Dong Tam raids and other abuses of housing rights and freedom of expression. Through social media he shares testimonies of local Dong Tam villagers where they speak of alleged incidents of police brutality or raids. Trinh Ba Tu and Trinh Ba Phuong were arrested on June 24, 2020 with their mother, Can Thi Thieu, 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.