Nhà hoạt động Thu Thủy bị tuyên án 7 năm tù-Nhà hoạt động Đinh Thị Thu Thủy Nhà hoạt động Đinh Thị Thu Thuỷ bị tuyên 7 năm tù tại tòa sơ thẩm tỉnh Hậu Giang ngày 20/1 với cáo buộc “tuyên truyền chống nhà nước” theo Điều 117 Bộ Luật Hình sự. BBC, ngày 20/01/2021 Trao đổi với BBC News Tiếng Việt sau phiên […]
Female Activist Dinh Thi Thu Thuy Convicted of “Conducting Anti-state Propaganda,” Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison- Defend the Defenders, January 20, 2021 On January 20, the People’s Court of Hau Giang province found local women human rights defender (WHRD) and environmentalist Dinh Thi Thu Thuy guilty of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 of the Criminal Code for her posts on Facebook regarding the country’s issues, including China’s violations […]
Rights groups snub Vietnam prisoner over hunger strike-For political prisoners in authoritarian Vietnam, sometimes a hunger strike is the only tool they have left Asia Times, January 17, 2021 “Only skin and bone, but his mind is very strong.” This is how Vietnamese political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc’s family described his condition after their most recent visit with him. Thuc […]
Vietnam’s Prisoners of Conscience: ‘Like Fish Under the Blade’-Leading partners including the United States and European Union can and should do more to discourage Vietnam’s fierce crackdown on dissent. The Diplomat, January 18, 2021 “We are like fish under the blade, always ready to be arrested,” Vietnamese journalist and dissident Pham Chi Dung said in 2015. “Up until 2012, if you were arrested, […]
Vietnam steps up ‘chilling’ crackdown on dissent ahead of key Communist Party congress-Reuters, January 18, 2021 As Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party gears up for its most important meeting in years, its leadership has presided over an intensified crackdown on dissent, according to rights groups, activists and data collated by Reuters. A record number of political prisoners, longer jail terms, and increased harassment of activists in recent years […]
Jailed Vietnamese Democracy Advocate Hospitalized as Hunger Strike Hits Day 50-Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc is shown at his trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Jan. 20, 2010. RFA, January 14, 2021 A jailed Vietnamese democracy advocate has been hospitalized in failing health in Nghe An province after reaching the 50-day mark in a hunger strike launched to appeal for a reduction in […]
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