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  • Lawmakers ‘adopt’ prisoners in human rights push - By Julian Pecquet | January 18, 2014, 02:20 pm | The Hill Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are teaming up to bring the plight of human rights defenders to light by adopting prisoners of conscience from around the world. Twenty-one House members have agreed to sponsor a total of 19 imprisoned human rights defenders from Iran, […]
  • Vietnamese Malware Gets Very Personal - January 19, 2014 | By Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire | EFF As encryption has become more prevalent in online communications as a countermeasure against surveillance, attackers have sought to circumvent these measures by covertly installing malware on targeted computers that can log keystrokes, remotely spy on users with their own webcams, record Skype calls, […]
  • Vietnam Worse Than Syria in Jailing Reporters - With 18 journalists behind bars, Vietnam ranks fifth in the world for imprisoning members of the press. By Luke Hunt, January 21, 2014 | The Diplomat Vietnam has made the top 10 list of countries that jail reporters for simply doing their job. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Vietnam came in at […]
  • Mother of jailed Vietnam activist warns on trade pact - Friday, 17 January 2014 01:12| Written by AFP – The Guardian THE mother of a jailed Vietnamese labor activist appealed Thursday for the United States to use a Pacific trade pact as pressure to end what rights groups call widespread violations. The mother of Do Thi Minh Hanh, one of three organizers at a shoe […]
  • Please Help Defend Writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan Whose Sternum Was Broken by Agents of Vietnam’s Public Security Forces! - Chan Minh, January 8, 2014 In a post dated January 4, 2014 (1) and also in a Youtube.com video (2), Mr. Huynh Ngoc Tuan told the story of the savage beating he received when traveled to Hanoi with a friend, Mr. Pham Ba Hai, to visit friends who are dissidents and/or human rights activists. These friends […]
  • Vietnam Activists Want Association to Address Public Complaints - Reported by An Nguyen and Mac Lam for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Translated by Viet Ha. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink. A group of activists in Vietnam are moving to launch a nationwide association to help address public complaints against government land grabs, police brutality, and corruption among officials in the one-party Communist state. The […]
  • Buddhist youth leader Lê Công Câu under house arrest in Hue - Last Update 2 January 2014 On the morning of January 1, 2014, security police arrested Vietnamese human rights defender and head of the Buddhist Youth Movement (BYM), Lê Công Cau, at Phu Bai Airport near Hue after he boarded a plane bound for Ho Chi Minh City. FIDH and its member organization the Vietnam Committee […]
  • Vietnamese Authorities Detain Former Political Prisoners Visiting Fellow Dissident - Reported by An Nguyen for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. On 31 Dec, 2013. Vietnamese authorities on Tuesday detained and interrogated three former political prisoners, beating one of them severely, as they traveled to visit a fellow ex-prisoner of conscience at his home outside the capital, a member of the group […]
  • Tình trạng hiện nay của 3 người Việt bị cảnh sát Thái bắt giam - RFA | Ngày 19/12/2013 Như tin Đài Á Châu Tự Do đã loan, vào hôm 13 tháng 12 vừa qua, theo yêu cầu của an ninh Việt Nam, cảnh sát thái lan đã bắt giữ 3 người Việt tị nạn chính trị, đó là các ông Trương Quốc Huy, Phạm Mạnh Hùng và Lê Văn […]
  • Support Press Freedom In Vietnam - Global Giving | December 18, 2013 Summary After China, Vietnam imprisons the highest number of bloggers and cyber-dissidents for reporting independently of the government-run media. Vietnamese bloggers are the only source of independent news in the country. Reporters Without Borders seeks support to provide them equipment and ensure information security through the purchase of computer software and […]