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  • Vietnamese Activists Face Arrest While Trying to Attend Political Trials - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 25, 2016 Vietnamese activists are facing detention if they try to attend political trials as well as hearings of other cases relating to other sensitive cases, according to Circular 13 of Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security. In its Circular 13, which became effective on March 24, the Ministry of Public […]
  • Foreign Governments, Organizations Condemn Vietnam over Sentences of Bloggers - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 25, 2016 A number of foreign governments and international human rights bodies, including the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), the London-based Amnesty International and the New York-based Human Rights Watch have condemned Vietnam’s government over imprisoning prominent blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (aka Anh […]
  • VIET NAM: CONVICTIONS OF NGUYEN HU’U VINH AND NGUYEN THI MINH THUY ARE AN OUTRAGEOUS CONTRAVENTION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION - Amnesty International | Mar 23, 2016 Today’s convictions of blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and his assistant Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms” are a shameful abdication of the country’s human rights obligations, Amnesty International has said. The convictions represent an outrageous contravention of the right to freedom of expression which Viet […]
  • Vietnam: Imprisonment of blogger and activist condemned - FIDH & Vietnam Committee on Human rights | Mar 23, 2016 PARIS, 23 March 2016: The Vietnamese government must immediately end the ongoing repression of peaceful dissent, release all political prisoners, and repeal its draconian legislation, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR)said today. The two organizations reiterated their demands in […]
  • Two Police Officers Promoted to Three-star Generals amid Intensified Crackdown - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 23, 2016 Outgoing Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on March 22 promoted Deputy Ministers of Public Security Nguyen Van Thanh and Pham Dung to senior lieutenant general amid increasing crackdown against peaceful political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders. Thanh, a member of the Central Committee of the ruling […]
  • Vietnam: RSF condemns sham trial of citizen-journalists - RSF, March 24, 2016 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Vietnamese authorities to quash the jail sentences passed yesterday on two citizen-journalists and reiterates its call for the repeal of article 258 of the criminal code – the article used to convict them – which penalizes “abusing democratic freedoms.” The Hanoi local court took just […]
  • Vietnam: Five Years in Prison for Popular Blogger - Civil Rights Defenders, March 24, 2016 Vietnamese authorities should release blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and his assistant Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy who were convicted on politically motivated charges, said Civil Rights Defenders after a court in Hanoi announce its decision on Wednesday. On March 23, 2016 prominent blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh, more known under his […]
  • Mobile Police in Vietnam’s Central Accused of Severely Assaulting Two Boys - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 24, 2016 Ho Hai Anh and Le Anh Vu, both 16, from Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have complained that they were severe beaten by local mobile police for not wearing helmet while riding motorbike, state media has reported. The incident happened on March 19 when the two boys […]
  • Vietnam Cop Sentenced to 102 Months in Jail for Beating School Boy to Death - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 24, 2016 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa on March 23 sentenced police officer Le Minh Phat to eight and half years in prison for illegal detention and beating to death a local school boy, state media has reported. Phat, a policeman in Van Long commune, […]
  • Vietnam’s First Juvenile Court to Debut in HCMC in April - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 24, 2016 Vietnam will establish its first juvenile court in Ho Chi Minh City next month in a bid to improve its justice system and handle cases of young offenders better, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Wednesday. The court will run on a trial basis dealing with offenders under 18 […]