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  • Xô xát với khách viếng Đỗ Đăng Dư - BBC | 16-10-2015 Nhà hoạt động Trương Dũng nói ông đã bị một nhóm người lao vào “đánh” khi cùng bạn bè đến viếng thiếu niên Đỗ Đăng Dư tại nhà của nạn nhân này. Thiếu niên Đỗ Đăng Dư, 17 tuổi, đã chết hôm 10/10 sau khi bị đánh tại trại giam số 3 […]
  • Công an nhân dân hay lưu manh mặc quân phục? - VOA | 18-10-2015 Sáng 13/10, tôi nhận được cuộc điện thoại của một người tự xưng là cán bộ Phòng Quản lý Xuất nhập cảnh – Công an Hà Nội. Anh ta nói là đã gửi giấy mời cho tôi đến địa chỉ thường trú của tôi và hỏi tôi đã nhận được chưa. Tôi […]
  • 2014 Report on International Religious Freedom – Vietnam - United States Department of State | Oct 14, 2015 Executive Summary The country’s constitution states that all people have the right to freedom of belief and religion but government authorities continued to limit the activities of unregistered religious groups, particularly those the government believed to be engaged in political activity. Although registered religious groups were normally […]
  • Human rights education key to promote human rights - Durunet | Oct 13, 2015 Ha Noi 26 November 2014 – How to increase human rights knowledge and integrate human rights into academic curriculums topped the agenda of a roundtable meeting at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam today. Representatives of academic institutions discussed recommendations of an assessment of human rights training curricula of the […]
  • Hanoi Activists Beaten by Police, Thugs during Visit to Family of Boy Who Died in Detention - By Vu Quoc Ngu, October 17, 2015 Police and thugs in Hanoi on October 16 brutally attacked a group of local activists during their visit to the family of Do Dang Du, who recently died from severe injuries during police detention. In the morning of Friday, a group of Hanoi-based human rights activists including Nguyen […]
  • Vietnam Independent Luong Tam TV Channel Releases 4th Edition despite Intensified Crackdown - by Vu Quoc Ngu, October 17, 2015 Vietnam’s independent Luong Tam (Conscience) TV channel has broadcast its 4th edition on human rights violations in the country despite the ongoing intensified crackdown of the government against its staff. The 7-minute program was released on October 15, three weeks after the police in Hanoi detained the five-member […]
  • Vietnamese Security Agents Suspected of Assaulting Nghe An-based Political Dissident - by Vu Quoc Ngu, October 16, 2015 Nghe An province-based political dissident Tran Duc Thach, 63-year old writer and poet,  on October 15 was brutally beaten and robbed by a group of thugs who are suspected to be security agents. At mid day on Thursday, when he was riding his motorbike on the way to […]
  • Religious freedom denied: Bishop of Kontum slams church demolition - Asia News | Oct 16, 2015 Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) – In an open letter to the local authorities, the bishop of Kontum has defended the campaign of local Catholics against ongoing attacks on religious freedom in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The most recent episode was the decision by the provincial administration to […]
  • Vietnam Is Pissed at US Over Report Claiming Its Record on Religious Freedom Sucks - Vice News | Oct 16, 2015 Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decried the United States government’s evaluation of the Southeast Asian nation’s record on religious freedom, saying a recent report released by the Department of State made false claims against its government and was biased. The State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2014, released Wednesday, accused the Vietnamese […]
  • Vietnamese Experts Call For Negotiations With China Over Disputed Islands - RFA | Oct 14, 2015 A recent attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese surveillance vessel has prompted two foreign affairs experts from the Southeast Asian nation to call for a more assertive stance by Hanoi toward what many in Vietnam see as Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. On Sept. 29, […]