Gender: Male
Current Location: Dak Trung Prison, M'Drak, Dak Lak
Perpetrator: Vietnam
Ethnic Group: Jarai
Religion or Belief: Christian – Protestant
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 7 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Detainment: July/30/2015
Current Status: Unknown
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity Resisting State Interference into Religious Affairs
Nature of Charges: Subversion
Y Hriam Kpa was imprisoned for his religious activity and for resisting state pressure to dissolve his church.
On July 30, 2015, authorities arrested Kpa, a house-church leader in Ea H’leo District, Gia Lai, after he refused to shut down his church following pressure from authorities.
On an unspecified date, Kpa was sentenced to seven years in prison and three to five years' probation for "undermining national unity policy" (Art. 87/1999 VCC).
Kpa's sentence should have ended in July 2022.
Photo provided by Campaign to Abolish Torture in Vietnam
"Montagnard Prisoners of Conscience, February 2022" Campaign to Abolish Torture in Vietnam
"Case BPSOS-03: Central Highlands Protestant Churches" Boat People SOS (BPSOS)