November 15, 2017
Hanoi-based Activist Kidnapped after Refusing Police Summoning
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 […]
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 […]