April 24, 2014
by HR Defender • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi
BY LEILA CHACKO Amnesty International USA April 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM In the past couple of weeks, Viet Nam has released 3 prominent prisoners of conscience: Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi and Cu Huy Ha Vu. The release of the 3 prisoners seems, at first glance, to be a step in the right direction for […]
April 17, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi
By Luke Hunt – Thediplomat | April 16, 2014 With an eye on a TPP trade deal, Vietnam releases some high profile writers and activists. Nguyen Tien Trung, a 30-year old blogger and political activist, was freed over the weekend after serving four years. He was not due for release till 2017 after being found guilty of attempting […]
April 16, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Huu Cau, Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi
RFA | 2014-04-15 The early release of several Vietnamese political prisoners in recent weeks represents “a step in the right direction” by Hanoi although scores of others remain behind bars and there should be no let up in the campaign to win their immediate freedom, rights groups and Vietnamese dissidents said Tuesday. In just over […]
April 16, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi
Amnesty | 14 April 2014 The early release in Viet Nam of several prisoners of conscience is welcome, but serves to highlight the situation of at least 70 others who remain jailed for peacefully expressing their opinions, Amnesty International said today. Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi and Cu Huy Ha Vu have all been released […]
April 15, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi
RSF | 14 APRIL 2014. Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that two netizens who had spent several years in prison – Vi Duc Hoi and Nguyen Tien Trung – were released on 11 and 12 April respectively although they are now assigned to a form of house arrest. Arrested in October 2010, Hoi was sentenced in 2011 to […]
April 15, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Dinh Dang Dinh
By VO VAN AI – Wsj | April 14, 2014 , Dinh Dang Dinh, was dying of stomach cancer in his modest home in Dak Nong. After serving two years of a six-year sentence for “anti-Socialist propaganda,” being denied medical care, and receiving beatings rather than treatment when he complained of pain, Dinh Dang Dinh was suddenly “amnestied” […]
April 15, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Tien Trung, Vi Duc Hoi
BBC | 14 April 2014 Vietnam has released two high-profile political activists amid ongoing free trade talks with the United States. Democracy activists Nguyen Tien Trung and Vi Duc Hoi were freed from prison over the weekend. Earlier in April, prominent activist Cu Huy Ha Vu was also released from jail. He has since flown […]
April 12, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay)
By Bob Dietz, CPJ | Apr 4, 2014 Dinh Dang Dinh, a former Vietnamese schoolteacher and blogger, died on April 3 from cancer of the stomach. Near death, he had been released from his six-year prison sentence on March 21, and allowed to return home to die in Dak Nong province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. His crime, […]
April 12, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Dinh Dang Dinh, Nguyen Huu Cau
Asianews | 04/11/2014 Jailed for “anti-state propaganda,” the teacher and famous anti-bauxite mining activist developed a tumour behind bars. The authorities eventually released him for medical care, but only when the disease was in its final state. As the end was approaching, he asked to be baptised and become Catholic. Saigon Redemptorists celebrated his funeral in […]
April 9, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Dinh Dang Dinh
VRNs | Apr 9th, 2014 – ( Amnesty International Student Network – section Central Norway) On Monday evening, April 7, 2014, the annual board meeting for the 2013/2014 season took place in Central Norway. The idea of paying tribute to Đinh Đăng Định at the end of the scheduled program for the upcoming annual board meeting was initiated […]
April 9, 2014
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Dinh Dang Dinh
Marianne Brown – VOAnews | April 08, 2014 HANOI — One of Vietnam’s best known dissidents, a rights lawyer and son of a revolutionary poet, has been released early from prison. Afterwards, he traveled to the United States. Lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu, 56, is one of Vietnam’s most famous dissidents. He had served three years of […]
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July 16, 2014
The government treats a sick detainee’s medical records like a state secret
by Nhan Quyen • Dinh Dang Dinh
Dr. T.K. TRAN, MD | 16/7/2014 (Defend the Defenders) The Case of Mr. Dinh Dăng Dinh (1963-2014) A patient’s medical records were treated as if they were a state secret After his diagnosis, government agencies kept Mr. Dinh and his family in the dark about his illness. The family’s request for the medical records was […]