Vietnam Prominent Political Prisoner Refuses Gov’t Proposal to Live In Exile in U.S.-By Vu Quoc Ngu, March 01, 2016 Vietnamese prominent political dissident Bui Thi Minh Hang, who is serving her three-year sentence, has refused the government’s proposal of amnesty and live in exile in the U.S., local activists said. Ms. Ta Minh Tu, a young sister of former political prisoner Ta Phong Tan, said that Vietnam’s […]
Thousands of Land Petitioners Rally across Vietnam, Many Detained and Beaten-by Vu Quoc Ngu, Feb 27, 2016 Thousands of land petitioners nationwide rallied in main streets in big cities across Vietnam on Saturday [Feb 27] to demand the return of their properties. Many of them were detained by local authorities, according to social websites. Around five hundred land petitioners gathered in Quang Trung Street in […]
Vietnam Human Rights Record Remains Poor: Amnesty International-by KTT, Feb 26, 2016 Restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly remain severe in Vietnam over the past years as the authorities prevented peaceful activists from exercising their fundamental rights, according to Amnesty International. The governments are painting the protection of human rights as a threat to security, law and order or […]
Vietnam Committee on Human Rights attends Asia Pacific Religious Freedom Forum in Taiwan-VCHR | Feb 24, 2015 PARIS, 24.2.2016 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) described a pattern of grave violations of religious freedom in Vietnam at the Asia Pacific Religious Freedom Forum (APRFF), a high-level gathering of international personalities and organizations engaged in the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief. […]
DTD, RSF Hold Cyber Training Workshop in Southern Vietnam Despite Police Harassment-Defend the Defenders, February 23, 2016 Defend the Defenders (DTD), an independent human rights group in Vietnam, in collaboration with Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières -RSF), successfully organized a cyber training course in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 20-22 despite constant harassment by the local police. As many as 27 […]
VIET NAM MUST IMMEDIATELY RELEASE PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE NGUYỄN VĂN ĐÀI AND LÊ THU HÀ-Amnesty International | Feb 19, 2016 PUBLIC STATEMENT 19 February 2016 Index: ASA 41/3475/2016 Viet Nam must immediately release prisoners of conscience Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà Viet Nam must end the ongoing incommunicado detention of human rights defenders Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà which is in violation of their human […]
President Obama needs to speak out on free elections in Vietnam-Washington Post | Feb 15, 2016 While it’s still anyone’s guess who will win November’s presidential election in the United States, I can tell you with certainty — before a ballot is cast — who will win this year’s election in Vietnam. It will be Gen. Tran Dai Quang. I even know who the next prime […]
PETITION TO END ONGOING HARASSMENT-Tran Minh Nhat | Feb 17, 2016 To: – International organisations – UN Office – UN Special Rapporteurs – Human rights organisations – Vietnamese and international civil society organisations – Vietnamese and international media – Bishop Antoine Vu Huy Chuong, Bishop of Da Lat Diocese – Bishop Paul Nguyen Thai Hop, President of the Commission […]
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