Pham Thanh

Defend the Defenders, July 9, 2021   On July 9, the People’s Court of Hanoi found political blogger Pham Chi Thanh (aka Pham Thanh) guilty of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of Vietnam’s Criminal Code for his online posts criticizing the country’s authoritarian regime. After two and half hours, the first-instance hearing ended with […]

  Defend the Defenders, June 26, 2021   After 13 months holding political blogger Pham Chi Thanh (aka Pham Thanh) in pre-trial detention, Vietnam’s authoritarian state has planned to conduct the first-instance hearing on July 9 to try him on charge of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code, with potential imprisonment […]

Defend the Defenders, May 28, 2021   Prisoner of conscience and political blogger Pham Chi Thanh (aka Pham Thanh) has been permitted to meet his lawyer Ha Huy Son for the first time since his arrest in late May last year to prepare for his defense, Defend the Defenders has learned. Lawyer Son told Defend […]

  Defend the Defenders, November 28, 2020   Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have forcibly committed political dissident and well-known blogger Pham Chi Thanh (penname Pham Thanh) to the Central Psychiatric Institute for mental health examination six months after his detention on charge of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the country’s […]

Defend the Defenders, May 21, 2020   On the morning of May 21, police officers from the Hanoi Police Department arrested local dissident blogger Pham Thanh and took him to Hoa Lo temporary detention facility under the authority of the city’s police. His family said he is accused of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 […]

Con Đường Việt Nam | 2/10/2014 Chiều thứ 2 Phạm Thành bỗng nhận được điện thoại của xếp cơ quan cũ của Phạm Thành (Đài Tiếng nói Việt Nam) khuyên Phạm Thành hãy thận trọng trong các bài viết trên blog và đặc biệt nói nhiều đến tiểu thuyết Cò hồn Xã nghĩa. Chẳng phải […]