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  • Six Vietnamese Pro-democracy Activists Convicted, Sentenced to Total 66 Years in Prison and 17 Years under House Arrest - Defend the Defenders, April 5, 2018 On April 5, the People’s Court of Hanoi found six pro-democracy activists members of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy guilty of subversion, sentencing them to a total 66 years in prison and 17 years under house arrest afterward. The court made its decision in late evening of Thursday. Particularly, […]
  • Measuring what matters: a new database to track human rights performance - The launch of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative dataset promises to provide comprehensive overviews of how countries are performing on human rights commitments. ANNE-MARIE BROOK & K. CHAD CLAY & SUSAN RANDOLPH OpenGlobalRight, April 3, 2018   EFE/EPA/SHIRAAZ MOHAMED In 2015 a severe food and nutrition crisis affected southern Madagascar with 200,000 people being damaged, […]
  • Vietnam Court Holds Trial of Six Pro-democracy Activists on Alleged Subversion - Defend the Defenders, April 5, 2018 On April 5, the People’s Court of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi holds the first-instance hearing of six pro-democracy activists members of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy (BFD) on allegation of subversion under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code. The defendants are prominent human rights attorney Nguyen […]
  • Tiếng hát bất đồng chính kiến của Mai Khôi - Người nhạc sĩ và nhà hoạt động xã hội – đôi khi được gọi là “Pussy Riot của Việt Nam” – đang thách thức một xã hội “tự kiểm duyệt” The Economist, ngày 3/4/2018 (Bản dịch của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền)   Trong những ngày của tháng 2, khán giả đã tập trung tại […]
  • Trước ngày xử “đại án dân chủ” - Nguyễn Tường Thụy, Việt Nam Thời báo, ngày 05/4/2018   Ngày 16/12/2015, Nguyễn Văn Đài (sinh năm 1969) một lần nữa bị bắt và bị khởi tố với cáo buộc tuyên truyền chống nhà nước. Cùng bị bắt với anh có Lê Thu Hà (sinh năm 1992)  Ngày 16/4/2017, khi đã hết thời hạn tạm […]
  • Mai Khoi’s dissenting voice - The musician and activist—sometimes referred to as “Vietnam’s Pussy Riot”—is challenging a “self-censoring” society Economist, Apr 3rd 2018 IN THE dying days of February, an audience gathered in the foyer of the Phu Sa Lab performing-arts space in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District. Representatives from the American embassy and other members of the diplomatic corps rubbed […]
  • Chúng ta đều là Anh Em Dân Chủ ! - Nguyễn Gia Kiểng, Thông luận, ngày 04/4/2018   Ngày mai, 5/4/2018, sáu anh em trong Hội Anh Em Dân Chủ sẽ bị chính quyền cộng sản đem ra tòa xử. Một tuần sau sẽ đến lượt hai người khác. Không có gì đáng ngạc nhiên nếu họ bị xử những bản án rất nặng, những […]
  • Foreign Embassies Revoked Permission of Access to Trial of Six Pro-democracy Activists, Security Reason Used as Excuse - Defend the Defenders, April 4, 2018 Vietnam’s authorities have revoked permissions of access to the trial of six pro-democracy activists scheduled on April 5-6 for all foreign embassies, Defend the Defenders has learned. The communist government made the move several days after agreeing to allow the EU Delegation in Vietnam, the Embassies of the US, […]
  • Vietnam finally puts six human rights activists on trial - The Sydney Morning Herald, April 4, 2018 Jakarta: Six Vietnamese rights activists, including a prominent human rights lawyer arrested way back in 2015, will finally appear in the People’s Court of Hanoi on Thursday. The six men, including Brotherhood for Democracy co-founder and lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, have been charged with “carrying out activities that aim to […]
  • Hanoi Court Verbally Promises to Allow Families of Six Pro-democracy Activists to Attend Their Trial Tomorrow - Defend the Defenders, April 4, 2018 The People’s Court of Hanoi has given verbal promise to allow the families of six pro-democracy activists to attend their first-instance hearing scheduled on April 5-6, Defend the Defenders has learned. Accordingly, on the morning of April 4, the court agreed to allow the wives of prominent human rights […]