Nguyễn Đặng Minh Mẫn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nguyễn Đặng Minh Mẫn

Vietnamese photographer and human rights activist

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1985

Place of Birth: Vĩnh Phúc, Vietnam

Profession: human rights activist, journalist

Nationality: Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Nguy?n Ð?ng Minh M?n (born January 10, 1985) is a human rights activist.
Seeing the social inequities in Vietnam, she became a freelance photojournalist and posted photographs online as an alternative news source to state-controlled media.In 2010, at 25 years old, she participated in the movement against China's territorial claims in the South China Sea Dispute.
She captured images of the slogan “HS.TS.VN” that were posted throughout Vietnam to assert Vietnam's claims over the islands of Hoang Sa (Paracel Islands) and Truong Sa (Spratly Islands).She traveled and documented police brutality, government corruption, and peaceful public protest, including the large anti-China demonstration held in Saigon on June 5, 2011.On July 31, 2011, Vietnamese authorities arbitrarily detained Minh M?n along with her mother (Ð?ng Ng?c Minh) and brother (Nguy?n Ð?ng Vinh Phúc).
During a two-day trial of 14 Vietnamese activists in January 2013, Minh M?n received one of the longer sentences, 8 years in prison and 5 years house arrest. She was imprisoned at Prison Camp 5, Yen Dinh, Thanh Hoa, until her release on August 2, 2019.