Tù nhân ở Việt Nam bị cái chết đe dọa thường xuyên do bị đối xử hà khắc,-Mike Ives, The New York Times, ngày 12/8/2017 Hà Nội, Việt Nam: Đỗ Thị Mai cho hay, cô đã bị sốc khi biết rằng đứa con trai 17 tuổi Đỗ Đăng Dư, đã rơi vào tình trạng hôn mê chỉ sau vài tuần bị cảnh sát bắt vì cáo buộc ăn cắp một món hàng […]
‘We are jobless because of fish poisoning’: Vietnamese fishermen battle for justice-A year after Vietnam’s worst environmental disaster, lives remain ruined while the government cracks down on protesters seeking compensation The Guardian, August 14, 2017 A beach in Quang Trach district is strewn with dead fish after the toxic spill in April 2016. “We used to eat the meat of the pig, but now all we have […]
Vietnam: Explaining Uptick in Arrests of Activists & Bloggers-Carlyle A. Thayer, August 1, 2017 We have never seen so many activists arrested and sentenced in such a short period of time as presently taking place in Vietnam over the past month. How do you explain this situation? Do you think there has been a trend of intensified crackdown on activists recently because the […]
Christian Rights Activists in Vietnam Charged with Serious ‘Crimes’-Christian News, August 13, 2017 After 19 long months of investigative detention following his Dec. 16, 2015 arrest, renowned human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai was finally charged with a crime on July 30. Vietnamese authorities charged Dai, 35-year-old legal associate Le Thu Ha and four other human rights activists, including Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton, […]
Hanoi Blogger under Constant Terror of Pro-government Thugs, Local Authorities Stay Aside-By Defend the Defenders, August 13, 2017 Pro-government thugs in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have constantly harassed local blogger Phan Van Bach in recent weeks but authorities have not intervened despite request from the victim. Blogger Bach, who is conducting live streams programs on his Facebook account about the country’s hot issues on environment, […]
Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly August 07-13, 2017: Labor Activist Hoang Duc Binh Added with Third Charge-Defend the Defenders | August 13, 2017 ===== August 07 ===== Nguyen Van Dai Imprisoned 600 Days without Trial Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Activists in London, Dublin and Prague marked the 600th day of the unjust imprisonment of Vietnamese human rights lawyer, Nguyen Van Dai on 7 August with a solidarity action. 600 lines were drawn in […]
‘It’s Very Easy to Die There’: How Prisoners Fare in Vietnam-New York Times, August 12, 2017 HANOI, Vietnam — Do Thi Mai said she was shocked to learn that her 17-year-old son, Do Dang Du, had fallen into a coma in prison a few weeks after he was arrested, accused by the police of stealing about $90. The police initially said that Mr. Du’s severe […]
Rising Environmental Awareness in Vietnam-Nicholas Chapman, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, August 2017 Rewind to the early days of January 2016 when the famous Cu Rua, or Great-Grandfather Turtle, that had inhabited Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake for decades (some say centuries) passed away. This occurred a week prior to the Vietnamese Communist Party’s (VCP)’s Twelfth Party Congress, and appeared […]
Đặng Bích Phượng: “Để xem các người còn ngồi xổm lên pháp luật được bao lâu!”-Nguyễn Tường Thụy, VNTB,ngày 11/8/10`7 Ngày 9/8/2017, tại Tòa án Quận Hoàn Kiếm đã diễn ra phiên tòa xét xử vụ kiện hành chính mà nguyên đơn là Đặng Bích Phượng còn bị đơn là Nguyễn Quang Hội, Phó trưởng Công an Quận Hoàn Kiếm. Đặng Bích Phượng tại phiên tòa Vụ việc bắt […]
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