November 11, 2015
Vietnamese Authorities Detain And Beat Two Human Rights Activists
RFA | Nov 09, 2015 Vietnamese police beat and detained two activists on Sunday in the town of Dinh Van as they traveled from Ho Chi Minh City to their homes in a village in a Central Highlands province in the latest incident of harassment against defenders of human rights. One of the two men, […]
December 22, 2017
Vietnam Rejects Appeal of Human Rights Activist Tran Thi Nga, Sending Her Back to Prison
by Nhan Quyen • Thao Teresa, Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga), Trinh Dinh Hoa, Truong Dung, Truong Van Dung
Defend the Defenders, December 22, 2017 The Hanoi Higher People’s Court has rejected the appeal of well-known human rights campaigner Tran Thi Nga, upholding the sentence of nine years in prison and five years of probation given by the lower court in late July on allegation of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the […]