Mr. Trinh Ba Phuong is a human rights defender and blogger who defends his community’s right to housing and land. He extensively documents alleged human rights violations in Dong Tam and has been significantly active since the January raids of the village. He is vocal on Facebook, sharing information and raising awareness on the issue nationally with his 50,000 followers. He was arrested on June 24, 2020 with his brother, Trinh Ba Tu, and 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.