CTV Danlambao - Translated by Như Ngọc -Danlambao - The activist and freelance journalist Truong Minh Duc is allegedly assaulted by a dozen of plainclothes police in a brutal attack around 2 p.m. on Sept. 08, 2014, at Kham Thien, Dong Da district in Hanoi, while taking a taxi with Do Thi Minh Hanh, Truong Van Dung, and Tran Thi Nga heading to the Public Security Headquarters to find out why Hanh was banned from leaving the country to visit her ailing mother in Austria.
Along the way, the activists had been closely chased by plainclothes security agents. When their taxi arrived at Kham Thien, a motorbike suddenly cut it off forcing it to stop, then a dozen of men rushed in to carry out the terror attack. The men dragged the taxi driver and Duc from the front passenger seat out of the taxi and brutally beat him. Duc collapsed on the street but the men reportedly continued to kick him, inflicting head and major injuries on his body.