Vietnam’s youngest political prisoner sentenced to 4.5 years prison-Viet Tan | Nov 27, 2015 A fifteen year old boy has become Vietnam’s youngest political prisoner. Nguyen Mai Trung Tuan was sentenced to four and a half years prison on November 24, 2015, for protesting his family’s forced land eviction. Tuan was arrested on August 8, 2015 and charged with “intentionally inflicting injury on […]
Collective concern grows on Vietnam’s draft law on religion-DVOV | Nov 26, 2015 On 3 November 2015 a diverse collection of international, regional, and local organizations, both religious and secular, released a joint statement of concern regarding Vietnam’s draft law on religion prior to the law’s debate in the National Assembly. Since the joint statement’s initial release, additional organizations, including ASEAN Parliamentarians for […]
Recognizing the role of human rights defenders and the need for their protection-General Assembly of the United Nations | Nov 18, 2015 The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights2 and other relevant instruments, Recalling its resolution 53/144 of 9 December 1998, by which it […]
SUPPORT THE DRAFT RESOLUTION ON RECOGNIZING THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THE NEED FOR THEIR PROTECTION- Freedom House | Nov 24, 2015 Excellencies, We write to you as a group of human rights defenders and civil society organizations located across the world working at national, regional and international levels. We write in regard to the draft resolution entitled ”Recognizing the role of human rights defenders and the need for their […]
Environmental journalism in an increasingly hostile climate-RSF | Nov 26, 2015 As Paris prepares to host the COP 21 Climate Change Conference, Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a report entitled “Hostile climate for environmental journalists” that examines the often tragic difficulties for reporters covering environmental issues. With the environment now recognized as a major challenge for humankind, Reporters Without Borders […]
Vietnam Human rights lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Luan attacked-Lawyers for Lawyers | Nov 27, 2015 On 3 November 2015, human rights lawyers Mr Tran Thu Nam andMr Le Luan were attacked and beaten by eight masked men. L4Lhas reason to believe that Tran Thu Nam and Le Luan were targeted in connection to their legitimate activities as attorneys. When the eight masked men […]
Vietnam Parliament Passes Revised Penal Code Removing Death Penalty for Corruption-By KTT, Nov 27, 2015 Members of Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), the country’s top legislature, have passed the revised Penal Code that includes abolishing death sentence for people who are charged with corruption, state media reported Friday. The code, which will take effect starting in July 2016, will also drop the death penalty for seven […]
Vietnam legislature adopts law on referendum, among others-Tuoitrenews | Nov 26, 2015 Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday approved several new human rights-related laws, the most prominent of which are those on referendum and temporary custody and detention. With a majority of votes, the legislature passed the Law on Referendums, which has 52 articles and will take effect on July 1, […]
Recent Comments