Overview of RSF’s support activity in 2014-RSF | Jun 20, 2015 The Assistance Desk at the international secretariat of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Paris and its counterpart in RSF’s German section in Berlin are responsible for coordinating the administrative, material and financial support that RSF provides to journalists and media in difficulty. In 2014, the two desks disbursed 216 assistance […]
Vietnamese Dissidents Call on US to Pressure Hanoi Over Rights Abuses at Home-RFA | Jun 18, 2015 Growing trade and security ties between the United States and Vietnam must be matched by effective U.S. pressure on the one-party communist state to ease its harsh treatment of democracy activists and religious believers worshipping outside of government control, a group of Vietnamese dissidents and other experts told a congressional […]
Điều trần về nhân quyền, tôn giáo Việt Nam tại Hạ viện Hoa Kỳ-RFA | 18-06-2015 Một buổi điều trần về đàn áp tôn giáo và những vi phạm nhân quyền khác của Việt Nam đã diễn ra hôm qua, thứ Tư ngày 17, trước Tiểu Ban Nhân Quyền hạ viện Hoa Kỳ ở thủ đô Washington. Chủ tọa buổi điều trần hôm qua là dân biểu Chris […]
Bac Giang Province-based Former Prisoner of Conscience Detained while Seeking for Justice-By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 18, 2015 Mr. Dinh Van Nhuong, 57, a former prisoner of conscience in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Giang, was detained on June 15 while he was waiting to fill his denunciation in the local government building to demand for justice. About ten years ago, local authorities in Bac […]
Majority of Vietnam Parliament Support Right to Remain Silent-By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 18, 2015 Majority of members of Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA) have agreed a proposal for enhancing human rights, including the right to remain silent of detainees and defendants, state media reported Thursday. Speaking at discussions in the on-going sitting of the parliament on the draft Law of […]
Vietnamese dissidents ask for US support on ‘prisoners of conscience’-SCMP | Jun 18, 2015 Vietnamese dissidents on Wednesday pleaded for international help for prisoners of conscience jailed inside their country and warned that warming US ties with Hanoi may send the wrong message to the ruling communists. Prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai, who was released from prison in late October and sent into exile […]
Former Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience in Central Highlands Arrested, Tortured-By Vu Quoc Ngu | June 17, 2015 Family of former prisoner of conscience A Lu (Oi Hngem) in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Gia Lai informed that he was arrested and severely tortured by police in Phu Thien district on June 14, said Haiphong-based activist Nguyen Xuan Nghia, the writer awarded with Norwegian Authors […]
988,000 Vietnamese Receive Legal Aid Since 2007: Deputy Minister-By Vu Quoc Ngu | June 17, 2015 As many as 988,000 Vietnamese in 940,000 cases have received legal aid services since the Law on Legal Aid took effect in 2007, said Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thuy Hien. Speaking at a seminar co-organized by the Ministry of Justice, the Embassy of Ireland in Vietnam and […]
Công an huyện Phú Thiện, tỉnh Gia Lai bắt giữ, đánh đập cựu TNLT A-Lư (Oi Hngem)-Dân làm báo | 17-06-2015 Trưa nay (17/6) tôi nhận được điện thoại của người nhà cựu TNLT A Lư (Oi Hngem) trú tại thôn Plei Rbai, xã Iapiar, huyện Phú Thiện, tỉnh Gia Lai. Tin cho biết cựu TNLT A Lư đã bị công an huyện Phú Thiện, tỉnh Gia Lai bắt giam từ […]
Interview: ‘The Government Violated the Human Rights of Political Prisoners Severely’-RFA | Jun 15, 2015 Truong Minh Tam served a one year prison term because of his democracy advocacy before joining the pro-democracy group Con Duong Vietnam. With that group’s founder, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, now serving a prison sentence, Truong visited the United States to call for great attention to the plight of the […]
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