Vietnamese Face Punishment For Attempt to Flee the Country-RFA | Apr 01, 2016 Four Vietnamese citizens are scheduled to be tried next month on charges that they masterminded an attempt to get their extended family to flee the country for Australia in 2015, RFA’s Vietnamese service has learned. Tran Thi Lua, Nguyen Minh Quyet, Huynh Thi Kieu, Nguyen Dinh Quy, and Nguyen Minh […]
Statement of Defend the Defender about Recent Attack against Its Staff-Defend the Defenders | Apr 02, 2016 On April 1, Nguyen Cong Thu, religious activist and staff of Defend the Defenders, was severely beaten by numerous police officers and plainclothes agents in Long Dien A commune in Cho Moi district, An Giang province when he was on his way to visit his fiancée’s family. Thu, […]
Tuyên bố của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền về vụ tấn công thành viên Nguyễn Công Thủ-Defend the Defenders | 02-04-2016 Ngày 01/4/2016, hàng chục công an và nhân viên mặc thường phục của tỉnh An Giang đã đánh đập dã man Nguyễn Công Thủ, thành viên của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền (Defend the Defenders- DTD) khi anh đang trên đường tới thăm gia đình của người vợ sắp cưới […]
Human Rights Defender Severely Beaten by Plainclothes Agents in Mekong Delta Province of An Giang-By Vu Quoc Ngu, April 2, 2016 Nguyen Cong Thu, a Vietnamese human rights activist and staff of Defend the Defenders (DTD), has been brutally assaulted by plainclothes agents in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, the victim said. Thu, 23, was beaten by a group of dozens of attackers on April 1 when […]
Vietnam jails bloggers: Latest chapter in a sorry (and failed) saga of internet censorship-lowyinterpreter | Mar 31, 2016 Two bloggers went on trial in Vietnam last week, charged under Section 258 of the criminal code which relates to abusing democratic freedoms. Section 258 is one of the three, somewhat elastic, sections commonly used in these cases. They were soon sentenced, to five and three years out of a […]
Vietnam Imprisons Bloggers-VOA | Mar 30, 2016 A Vietnamese court convicted and sentenced Nguyen Huu Vinh and his colleague Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy for allegedly “abusing the rights to freedom and democracy to infringe upon the interests of the state. A Vietnamese court convicted and sentenced Nguyen Huu Vinh and his colleague Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy on March 23, […]
Vietnam jails 4 bloggers for anti-state propaganda-The Statesman | Mar 31, 2016 A Vietnamese court sentenced a critical blogger and three other activists to prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the state, authorities said on Thursday. Nguyen Ngoc Gia, arrested in 2014, was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison by a court in Ho Chi Minh City. He […]
Blogger sentenced amid clampdown in Vietnam-CPJ | Mar 31, 2016 Bangkok, March 31, 2016 – In a mounting clampdown on dissent, Vietnam sentenced a prominent blogger on Wednesday to four years in prison on charges of disseminating “propaganda against the state,” according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the sentence and calls for the immediate release of all […]
Viet Nam: Spike in judicial repression with six convictions in eight days-Amnesty International, March 31, 2016 On 30 March 2016, four activists were convicted under Article 88, “spreading propaganda against the state”, in two separate trials. In one case, three women – Ngô Thị Minh Ước, Nguyễn Thị Trí, and Nguyễn Thị Bé Hai – were convicted by the Hồ Chí Minh People’s Court. Ngô Thị […]
Viet Nam: Spike in judicial repression with six convictions in eight days-Amnesty International, March 31, 2016 Viet Nam must end judicial repression, and immediately and unconditionally release six activists convicted in the past eight days, Amnesty International said. On 30 March 2016, four activists were convicted under Article 88, “spreading propaganda against the state”, in two separate trials. In one case, three women – Ngô Thị […]
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