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  • Son of Detained Land Petitioner from Ninh Binh Seeks Justice for His Mother - By Vu Quoc Ngu  | July 4, 2015 Mr. Duong Van Tuyen, a son of arrested land petitioner Vu Thi Hai, has sent his letter to a number of Vietnam’s state agencies to protest the illegal detention of his mother by the police force in the capital city of Hanoi a month ago. Mrs. Hai from […]
  • Two More Vietnamese Human Rights Activists Rejected to Obtain Passports - By Vu Quoc Ngu | July 4, 2015 Vietnam’s police have rejected to grant passports for two other local human rights activists without giving specific reasons for that, the victims complained. On July 2, Ms. Ta Minh Tu from the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu and Ms. Tran Thi Nga from the northern province of […]
  • Obama to Broach Human Rights Problems With Vietnamese Communist Party Official - RFA | Jul 02, 2015 U.S. President Barack Obama will bring up human rights issues with a high-ranking Vietnamese Communist Party official when they meet next week in Washington, according to a prominent activist who met with American officials to discuss the situation ahead of the visit. Vietnamese-American community activist Nguyen Quoc Quan was among […]
  • Biển Đông và chuyến đi của TBT Nguyễn Phú Trọng - RFA | 02-07-2015 Chuyên mục Câu chuyện trong tuần với chủ đề tuần này: Biển Đông và chuyến đi của TBT Nguyễn Phú Trọng. Xin trân trọng giới thiệu GS Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, từng giảng dạy bộ môn Quan hệ quốc tế của đại học George Mason là khách mời của chương trình hôm nay. […]
  • Dư luận trước chuyến công du Hoa Kỳ của TBT Nguyễn Phú Trọng - RFA | 02-07-2015 Tổng bí thư đảng cộng sản Việt Nam, ông Nguyễn Phú Trọng, vào tuần tới sẽ đến Hoa Kỳ trong chuyến công du đầu tiên của một người đứng đầu đảng cầm quyền tại Việt Nam đến Hoa Kỳ. Chuyến đi này được giới chuyên gia đánh giá ra sao? Mỹ chìa […]
  • End of Sentence for Lawyer a Reminder of On-going Detention of Prisoners of Conscience in Vietnam - civilrightsdefenders | Jun 30, 2015 Le Quoc Quan, a prominent human rights lawyer and blogger, left An Diem prison in Quang Nam province last Saturday after completing his 30-month sentence. Civil Rights Defenders considers the 2013 “tax evasion” charges against Quan reprisal against his writings on human rights abuses and democratic reforms, topics usually not […]
  • Released from prison, Vietnamese Catholic lawyer to continue human rights fight - Asia News | Jul 01, 2015 Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews/EDA) – Vietnam’s Catholics and international media have welcomed with joy the release last Friday of Le Quoc Quân, a human rights lawyer convicted in 2013 on tax fraud. For human rights associations and foreign governments, the conviction of the 45-year-old Catholic activist was “politically […]
  • Persecution of Vietnamese Christian Montagnards is “state policy”, says Human Rights Watch - barnabasfund | Jun 30, 2015 “Vietnam’s official media made it shockingly clear that persecution of religious minorities is state policy,” said Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) Asia director, Brad Adams, after the advocacy group released a report on Friday (26 June). Compiling interviews with Vietnamese ethnic Montagnards seeking asylum abroad, the report reveals the government’s deliberate […]
  • Vietnam Releases Imprisoned Writer Ahead of Party Chief’s US Visit - RFA | Jun 30, 2015 Authorities in Vietnam have released a writer linked to a banned political group from prison five months ahead of the end of his four-year sentence for anti-state crimes,  a move one fellow activist suggested was linked to an upcoming visit by a high-ranking official to the U.S. Le Thanh Tung, […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly June 22-28: Pro-democracy Lawyer Le Quoc Quan Completes 30-month Imprisonment - Defenders’ Weekly | Jun 28, 2015 *************23/6/2015************ EU Releases Annual World Report on Human Rights and Democracy in 2014- Vietnam OUTCOME OF PROCEEDINGS Respect for and promotion of democratic principles and human and fundamental rights at work constitute an essential element of the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) signed in June 2012. The EU’s […]