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Lê Công Định
Vietnamese lawyer
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Lê. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Định.
Lê Công Định (born 1 October 1968) is a Vietnamese lawyer who sat on the defence of many high-profile human rights cases in Vietnam.
He was critical of bauxite mining in the central highlands of Vietnam,[1] and was arrested by the Vietnamese government on 13 June 2009 on charges of "national security", though the arrest was met with strong objections from the international community.[2][3] Lê Công Định is one of Amnesty International's prisoners of conscience.[4]
Life before arrest
Định studied law at Hanoi Law School and Saigon University.
He studied in the United States at Tulane University as a Fulbright scholar and received his master of law degree from Tulane in 2000.[5]
In 2003, Định worked for a local law firm called YKVN, which is contracte