Vietnam Imprisons Third Blogger within Eight Days as New Leadership Elected-By Vu Quoc Ngu, April 1, 2016 Vietnam has jailed the third blogger within the last eight days of March as the country elects key state positions for the next five years, state media has reported. After imprisoning prominent blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (aka Anh Ba Sam) and his assistant Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy […]
New restrictions on the right to demonstrate in Vietnam-VCHR | Mar 30, 2016 PARIS, 30 March 2016 (VCHR) – The Minister of Public Security has issued new regulations which limit the right to demonstrate in Vietnam and give Police broad powers to crack down on public gatherings outside Courts when trials are in session. Circular 13/2016/TT-BCA on “Regulations on the duties of the People’s […]
“Democratic Socialism” Is a Contradiction in Terms-FEE | Mar 17, 2016 What Happens When You Try to Combine Democracy with Socialism? Why are so many young Americans suddenly calling themselves democratic socialists? I think many of them simply want to distinguish themselves from socialists who might have supported dictatorial regimes such as the former USSR and Maoist China, or who today […]
Leading Vietnam Blogger Draws Five-Year Sentence-Asia Sentinel | Mar 24, 2016 Anh Ba Sam charged with “encroaching on state interests” The Hanoi People’s Court on March 23 sentenced prominent independent blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh, known also by his pen name Anh Ba Sam or “Brother Gossip,” to five years in prison for charges related to his work. Under the Vietnamese Criminal […]
CPJ: Vietnamese bloggers imprisoned for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’-Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Bangkok, March 23, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns a Hanoi court’s sentencing today of two Vietnamese bloggers to prison terms on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms.” In a one-day trial, Hanoi’s People’s Court sentenced Nguyen Huu Vinh, founder of the news website and aggregator Ba Sam, […]
Viet Blogger Draws Five Years in Jail-David Brown, March 25, 2016 The Hanoi People’s Court on March 23 sentenced a prominent independent blogger, Nguyễn Hữu Vinh (pen name Anh Ba Sam or “Brother Gossip” to five years’ imprisonment on charges of “misusing democratic freedom to encroach on State interests [and] the legitimate rights of groups and individuals” according to the Vietnamese […]
Vietnam Corruption Fighter Imprisoned Over Seven Months, Second Sentence against Him Within 9 Years- By Vu Quoc Ngu, March 25, 2016 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa on March 24 sentenced 73-year-old corruption fighter Dinh Tat Thang to seven months and 11 days on charge of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations […]
Vietnam Well-known Journalist Severely Beaten by Thugs-by NTN, March 25, 2016 Journalist Do Doan Hoang from Vietnam’s state-controlled Lao Dong newspaper was brutally beaten by three thugs in Hanoi in the morning of March 23, state media has reported. Hoang, 40, was attacked by thugs with wooden batons in the city’s outskirt during field trip near Kim Lu urban area. He […]
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