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December 22, 2017

Vietnam Rejects Appeal of Human Rights Activist Tran Thi Nga, Sending Her Back to Prison

by • 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 […]

November 15, 2017

Hanoi-based Activist Kidnapped after Refusing Police Summoning

by • Truong Dung, Truong Van Dung

By Defend the Defenders, November 14, 2017 Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have kidnapped local activist Truong Van Dung after he refused to come to the city’s police to discuss about the Brotherhood for Democracy, an online organization working for promoting human rights and multi-party democracy, local activists said. At 7 AM on […]

May 29, 2016

Hanoi Security Forces Detain Many Environmentalists for Street Sit-in Demonstration Related to Mass Killing of Aquatic Species in Central Coastal Region

by • [Human Rights], Dang Bich Phuong, La Viet Dung, Nguyen Thuy Hanh, Nguyen Van Phuong, Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga), Truong Dung

By Vu Quoc Ngu, March 29, 2016 Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on May 29 detained a number of environmental activists who conducted a street sit-in demonstration in the city’s center for government’s transparency in the mass killing of aquatic species in the country’s central offshore. Among detainees are bloggers La Viet […]

December 8, 2015

Vietnam Security Forces Block Four Activists from Visiting Myanmar

by • [Human Rights], Le Sy Binh, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Pham Thanh, Truong Dung

By Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 7, 2015 Vietnam’s security forces on Sunday [December 6] barred four activists from leaving to country to Myanmar where they were invited by the National League for Democracy (NLD). Writer Pham Chi Thanh, who runs Ba Dam Xoe blog, and poet Nguyen Tuong Thuy, vice president of the unsanctioned Independent […]