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  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders Weekly December 21-27: Vietnam Continues Harassing Human Rights Defenders after International Condemnation - Defenders’ Weekly | Dec 27, 2015 =========== Dec 20=========== U.S. ‘deeply concerned’ by arrest of Vietnam rights activist Reuters: The United States said on Monday it was deeply concerned by the arrest of a Vietnamese human rights lawyer and called on Hanoi to release all prisoners of conscience. Rights activist Nguyen Van Dai, who was […]
  • Tuần tin người bảo vệ nhân quyền 21/12-27/12/2015: Chiến dịch một bàn tay: #Free Nguyễn Văn Đài - Defenders’ Weekly | 27-12-2015 ***************************21/12/2015******************** Vợ Luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài công bố thỉnh nguyện thư đòi trả tự do cho chồng Bà Vũ Minh Khánh, vợ của Luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài đã công bố một thỉnh nguyện thư, yêu cầu nhà cầm quyền Cộng Sản Việt Nam trả tự do cho chồng bà. […]
  • Vietnam Persecution Wave against Activists Continues ahead of Communists’ National Congress, Children Also Targeted - By Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 26, 2015 Vietnam’s police nationwide have been intensifying persecutions against local activists ahead of the ruling communist party’s National Congress, targeting political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders and even their young children. In Ho Chi Minh City, police on December 25 detained about ten activists, beating them brutally […]
  • 70 CSOs and POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, 900 INDIVIDUALS and 900 HUMAN RIGHTS HANDS CALL FOR RELEASE of ATTORNEY NGUYEN VAN DAI and LE THU HA - FVPoC | Dec 24, 2015 On the morning of 16 December 2015, as he just left his house to go and meet with the European Union mission in Hanoi for human rights dialogue Attorney NGUYEN VAN DAI (born 1969) was forced by public security police to go back inside his home.  They read to him […]
  • VN prisoners get newspapers, TV - Vietnamnews | Dec 25, 2015 Prisoners will get access to internal cable network, colour television and printed newspapers, a document on amendment and supplementary contents to Decree 90/2015 on prisoner management said. Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang has issued the document. According to Decree 90, a stockade holding less than 30 prisoners will […]
  • Child protection programme for 2016- 2020 approved - Vietnamplus | Dec 24, 2015 The Prime Minister has approved a child protection programme for 2016-2020, with a view to protecting children from abuse and special circumstances. The initiative aims to reduce the percentage of children in special circumstances to 5 percent. Ninety percent of children in special circumstances will be supported to integrate into […]
  • Vietnamese Students Protest Against Plans For Commercial Center in Hanoi Suburbs - RFA | Dec 24, 2015 More than 2,500 Vietnamese elementary and middle school students in a Hanoi suburb have refused to go to class this week to protest against the local government’s decision to build a commercial center on the premises of their schools and near a local market. Some students from three schools in […]
  • Arrest of Vietnam Human Rights Advocate - VOA | Dec 23, 2015 Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai was arrested on December 16 by Vietnamese authorities. The United States is deeply concerned by the arrest of Nguyen Van Dai for alleged “propaganda against the State” under national security-related Article 88 of Vietnam’s penal code. It is the same charge […]
  • VIETNAM: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST HELD, AT RISK OF TORTURE - Amnesty International | Dec 22, 2015 Vietnamese lawyer Lê Thu Hà, a human rights activist, was arrested on 16 December, at the same time as prominent human rights lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài, a colleague. No other activists have been allowed to see her, and she is at risk of torture and other ill- treatment. Lawyer […]
  • Thousands of Children in Hanoi Outskirt Boycott School to Protest Land Seizure - by Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 23, 2015 Thousands of children in Ninh Hiep commune in Hanoi’s district of Gia Lam have refused to go to school in a bid to protest land seizure of the local authorities for a trade center building, state media has reported. The children, who have boycotted studying from Dec 21, […]