Tense confrontation as lawyers challenge police-Vietnam Right Now | Nov 14, 2015 A confrontation has escalated between police and human rights lawyers, who have taken up the case of a teenager who died from injuries sustained in police custody. The lawyers suffered a violent assault, and one was temporarily detained, after they tried to represent the mother of the youth, […]
Referendums promote democracy, people’s right to mastery-Talkvietnam | Nov 15, 2015 The draft law on referendums is being discussed at the 10th session of the 13th National Assembly. The law specifies the 2013 Constitution, comprehends Vietnam’s legal system, and promotesdemocracy and the people’s right to mastery. Referendums are a democratic way for people to express their will,aspiration, and power on key […]
No legal status for “virtual organizations”-QDND | Nov 14, 2015 A number of “virtual organizations” have recently been founded in the cyber network. They in fact have no legal status but often issue “statements” and call on people to “sign” on the statements. To attract more people to their “statements”, they make use of domestic events and complex regional situations, […]
Int’l conference promotes human right education in Vietnam-VOV | Nov 13, 2015 Domestic and international experts gathered at a workshop on November 12 in Hanoi to seek ways to boost the study and education of in Vietnam. The event was jointly organised by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, the Law Faculty under the […]
Vietnamese Police Detain Lawyer Working on Case of Death-in-Custody Victim-RFA | Nov 12, 2015 A Vietnamese lawyer working on the case of a young man who died in police custody and the related harassment of two attorneys representing the boy’s family said he was illegally detained Wednesday by authorities in Hanoi, as he planned to visit the city’s police chief. Plainclothes police detained Tran […]
Hundreds of Vietnamese Lawyers Plan Street Demonstration to Seek Justice for Two Colleagues-By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 11, 2015 A group of around 200 Vietnamese lawyers have planned to hold street demonstrations to demand for justice for their two colleagues who were brutally assaulted by thugs last week. They planned to go to the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People’s Procuracy and the Hanoi Police Department’s headquarters […]
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