March 29, 2024
Vietnam arrests Buddhist abbot from Khmer Krom indigenous group
Vietnamese police on Tuesday arrested a Buddhist abbot and two followers – all members of the Khmer Krom indigenous group – for their alleged roles in two separate incidents involving a pagoda in the country’s south. The nearly 1.3-million strong Khmer Krom indigenous community live in a part of Vietnam that was once southeastern Cambodia. […]
March 29, 2024
2 Vietnamese bloggers charged for criticizing death penalty case
by Defend the Defenders • [Human Rights]
Vietnamese authorities on Thursday arrested and charged two Facebook bloggers for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe the interests of the state” for posting comments about the handling of a case of a death row inmate, Vietnamese media reported. The Security Investigation Agency of the Binh Duong provincial police charged Nguyen Duc Du and Hoang Quoc […]