Civil Society Urges Obama to Push for Release of Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience-Free for all blog | Nov 17, 2015 As U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Southeast Asia this week, ninety international personalities and civil society organizations worldwide have signed a letter urging Mr. Obama to press for the release of Vietnam’s most longstanding prisoner of conscience,Thich Quang Do, leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of […]
Saigon, Catholic buildings targeted by communists. Nuns protest expropriation-Asianews | Nov 17, 2015 Communist authorities and a local religious institution are once again in open conflict in Vietnam over land ownership. The local administration wants to expropriate three schools which have been run by the Congregation of the Lovers of the Holy Cross in Thu Thiem, a district of Ho Chi Minh City […]
Police ‘deliberately targeting’ Vietnamese Catholic activists-Ucanews | Nov 18, 2015 Rights groups in Vietnam have accused police of “deliberately targeting” two Catholic activists, with officers allegedly attacking one of them twice in less than two weeks. Vu Quoc Ngu of local rights group Defend the Defenders told ucanews.com that Tran Minh Nhat was attacked on Nov. 17 “when he went […]
Tran Minh Nhat physically attacked twice in past two weeks-Viet Tan | Nov 18, 2015 Vietnamese human rights activist Tran Minh Nhat was physically attacked and threatened by police outside Lam Ha Hospital on Tuesday afternoon following his recent release from prison. He was also beaten and detained for 12 hours the previous week by plainclothes police while making his way home from Saigon. […]
Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Barbarically Beat Local Dissident, Second Time within Ten Days-By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 17, 2015 Security forces in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on November 17 brutally attacked a local political dissident and detained him to a police station until late afternoon, the victim said. This is the second assault within ten days of the police in Lam Ha district against […]
Four Vietnamese Jailed for Beating Drug User to Death in Rehabilitation Facility-by Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov. 17, 2015 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Nov. 16 sentenced four people to between 13 years and 19 years in prison for beating to death one drug user in a rehabilitation facility two years ago, state media has reported. Nguyen Duc Toan, a serviceman of […]
Vietnam Activists Fear New Religious Law-Bosnewslife | Nov 15, 2015 Church leaders and rights activists fear that lawmakers in Vietnam will pass a new law on religion that would “likely worsen oppression” of minority Christians and other groups in the Communist-run Asian nation. Some 27 advocacy and religious groups have urged Vietnam’s government to make necessary changes to the legislation […]
Draft religion law cause for concern in Vietnam-MNN | Nov 16, 2015 Vietnam (VCM/ICC) — Lawmakers in Vietnam are expected to pass a new law on religion that will likely worsen oppression, according to many alarmed religious leaders and human rights’ groups. As a result, 27 organizations–including Voice Of the Martyrs Canada–have called on Vietnam’s government to make necessary changes to the […]
Vietnam Security Forces Block Activist from Attending Regional NGOs Conference in Malaysia-by Vu Quoc Ngu, November 16, 2015 Security forces in Ho Chi Minh City on November 16 barred a local human rights activist from taking an international flight to Kuala Lumpur where she is invited to attend the ACSC/APF 2015 Conference Engaging 27th ASEAN Summit Workshop which will be held in the Malaysian capital city […]
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