April 5, 2017
Two Hanoi-based Activists Beaten While Holding Facebook Live Stream about Formosa
By Defend the Defenders, April 5, 2017 On April 5, two activists from Hanoi, Le My Hanh and Trinh Dinh Hoa, were brutally beaten by unidentified individuals as they were broadcasting a live stream on Facebook about the environmental disaster caused by the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in the central coastal region in April 2016. […]
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 […]