Nữ tù chính trị Trần Thị Nga bị chuyển trại giam-RFA, 21-03-2018 Nữ tù chính trị Trần Thị Nga, người bị kết án 9 năm tù với cáo buộc tuyên truyền chống Nhà Nước, vừa qua bị chuyển từ Hà Nam lên Dak Trung, tỉnh Dak Lak. Tuy nhiên vào ngày 20 tháng 3, người phối ngẫu của tù chính trị Trần Thị Nga và […]
Vietnam Security Forces Block Independent Journalist from Traveling to US-by Defend the Defenders, March 22, 2018 Security forces in Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the biggest airport in Vietnam, have barred independent journalist Bui Minh Quoc, vice president of unsanctioned Independent Journalist Association of Vietnam, from taking a flight to the US. Security officers in the airport stopped him at the border gate on […]
Prisoner of Conscience Tran Thuy Nga Held in Gia Trung, Not Permitted to Meet with Family-Defend the Defenders, March 21, 2018 Vietnam’s authorities had transferred prisoner of conscience Tran Thi Nga to Gia Trung camp in the Central Highlands province of Gia Trung, not in Dak Trung camp in the neighboring province of Dak Lak, as they informed the family last month. Earlier this week, Mr. Phan Van Phong, the […]
Hmong Christians hospitalised after mob attack in Vietnam’s northwest- World Watch Monitor, March 15, 2018 A head wound sustained during the attack (World Watch Monitor) Four Vietnamese Christian families – 24 people in all – have been attacked by a mob led by the village chief, local sources have revealed to World Watch Monitor. Four people were hospitalised for eight days after the 1 March attack, with […]
Police Detain And Beat Vietnamese Activist Over China Battle Memorial-Dung Truong, who was beaten when he went to the police station to seek the release of another activist detained at a gathering in Hanoi to mark a deadly 1988 naval clash with China, March 14, 2018. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener. RFA, March 15, 2018 A Vietnamese activist lost two teeth in a […]
Vietnam: UN experts concerned by threats against factory workers and labour activists-Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights GENEVA (20 March 2018) – UN human rights experts* express their concern about reports that women workers at two Samsung Electronics factories in Viet Nam, as well as labour activists, have been subjected to intimidation and harassment after they raised concerns about working conditions at the plants. Among […]
Attack on Hmong Christians Underscores Vietnam Religious Freedom Shortcomings-RFA, March 20, 2018 File photo of minority ethnic Hmong hill tribespeople selling puppies as pets at the weekly Sunday market in Bac Ha town, in the mountainous northern province of Lao Cai, Vietnam. AFP An incident early this month in which 24 Hmong Christians in Vietnam’s northwestern highlands were attacked by a mob led […]
Vietnam Transfers Political Prisoner Nguyen Van Oai to Remote Jail-RFA, March 19, 2018 Nguyen Van Oai calls for the release of jailed pro-democracy lawyer Nguyen Van Dai in an undated photo. Viet Tan Vietnamese authorities have transferred prisoner of conscience Nguyen Van Oai to a remote prison far from his wife and hometown with notifying his family, his wife told RFa’s Vietnamese Service on […]
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