Vietnam: Christian lawyer beaten by police after human rights conference-christiantoday | Dec 09, 2015 A Christian lawyer has been assaulted after attending a controversial human rights event in Vietnam, according to religious freedom charity CSW. Nguyen Van Dai attended a forum on Sunday that sought to educate Vietnamese citizens about their rights, including the freedom of religion or belief, which police had requested be […]
Wife of Jailed Vietnamese Environmental Activist Appeals to UN, Foreign Groups For Help-RFA | Dec 08, 2015 Members of an environmental protection group jailed two years ago in Vietnam on charges of plotting to overthrow the government are innocent and should be freed, the wife of the group’s leader said this week, adding that she has asked international organizations to intervene in the case. Twenty-two members of […]
Viet Nam: End wave of brutal attacks against human rights defenders-Amnesty International | Dec 09, 2015 The Vietnamese authorities must put an end to a wave of vicious and violent attacks on human rights defenders and end the persistent impunity by ensuring those responsible are brought to justice, Amnesty International said. In the latest attack on Sunday 6 December, four activists – including prominent human […]
Hanoi Court Rejects Appeal of Land Petitioner Vu Thi Hai but Reduces Sentence to 15 Months-By Vu Quoc Ngu, December 09, 2015 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Wednesday [December 09] rejected the appeal of Ninh Binh province-based land petitioner Vu Thi Hai but reduced her 18-month imprisonment to 15 months in jail in a nominally opentrial that was in fact closed to the public and […]
Prominent activist, Nguyen Van Dai, badly beaten in latest assault-Vietnam Right Now | Dec 07, 2015 The human rights campaigner and lawyer, Nguyen Van Dai, and three of his associates, have been attacked and robbed by masked men during a visit to fellow activists in central Vietnam. They were in a taxi heading back to Hanoi when they were intercepted by men they identified […]
Activists beaten, robbed by paramilitaries in Vietnam-Asia Sentinel | Dec 08, 2015 Vietnam continues to pay a disheartening lack of attention to human rights violations despite continuing promises that the situation would improve with passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which contains language covering abuses, as the ordeal of a Hanoi-based human rights lawyer and his associates demonstrates. On Dec. 6, Nguyen […]
Vietnamese Lawyer Beaten by Masked Men Following Human Rights Class-RFA | Dec 07, 2015 Masked assailants in Vietnam detained and beat a dissident lawyer and his fellow activists after they led a class to educate residents of Nghe An province about their human rights, he said Monday, upon returning to his home in the capital Hanoi. Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai told RFA’s Vietnamese Service […]
Vietnam Security Forces Block Four Activists from Visiting Myanmar-By Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 7, 2015 Vietnam’s security forces on Sunday [December 6] barred four activists from leaving to country to Myanmar where they were invited by the National League for Democracy (NLD). Writer Pham Chi Thanh, who runs Ba Dam Xoe blog, and poet Nguyen Tuong Thuy, vice president of the unsanctioned Independent […]
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