Trần Thị Liên was a revolutionist of Vietnam

Vietnam

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. Liên was born in Yên Nghi village (now in Vinh

Vinh

Vinh is a city in Vietnam. It is located in the northern half of the country, and is the capital of Nghệ An Province. Politically, Vinh is a municipality within Nghệ An Province. On September 5th, 2008, it was upgraded from Grade-II city to Grade-I city, the fourth Grade-I city of Vietnam after...

), Nghe An Province. Her father was a geo-surveyor while her mother was a small merchant in Vinh. Liên attended and finished Nguyễn Trường Tộ primary school in Vinh.

In the mid 1920s, Liên joined the New Revolutionary Party of Vietnam where she met and then married Trần Văn Cung

Trần Văn Cung

Trần Văn Cung was a Vietnamese revolutionist, who was the secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam.Cung was born in Kim Khe Trung village, Nghi Loc, Nghe An in Annam in 1906....

 - a member of Vietnam Association of Revolutionary Youths (VARY) founded by Nguyễn Ái Quốc

Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh , born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...

 - in 1928. In late 1928, Liên and Cung went to Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

. Cung then became secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam and a co-founder of Communist Party of Indochina

Communist Party of Indochina

Communist Party of Indochina is one of three predecessors of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Other two predecessors are the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina....

 (CPI). Liên joined the CPI and returned to Nghe An along with Cung.

In the late 1029, Cung was caught by French colonial government and sentenced penal servitude for life in French Guiana

French Guiana

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. He was at first jailed in Lao Bao Prison

Lao Bao Prison

Lao Bao Prison is a prison situated in Lao Bảo, Quảng Trị, 22 km from Khe Sanh, in the village of Duy Tan, commune of TanThanh, district of Hướng Hóa, to the west is the Sepon river, to the east is the high mountain...

. In the late 1931, Liên was caught and imprisoned for a year in Vinh Prison. Her first child dead during her imprison time. In October 1935, Liên was caught again when laying flyers. She was imprisoned the second time for 2 years. Thanks to activity of Popular Front

Popular Front (France)

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, Liên and Cung were liberated in July 1936.

She was awarded the Medal of Independence. Liên died on 7 July 1991 in Hanoi.

See also

• Tran Van Cung
  Trần Văn Cung
  Trần Văn Cung was a Vietnamese revolutionist, who was the secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam.Cung was born in Kim Khe Trung village, Nghi Loc, Nghe An in Annam in 1906....