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  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA-PACIFIC in 2019: Vietnam - Amnesty International, January 30, 2020   Socialist Republic of Viet NamHead of state: Nguyễn Phú Trọng Head of government: Nguyễn Xuân Phúc   The year saw a surge in the number of prisoners of conscience. A crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly continued. A new cybersecurity law entered into […]
  • Prisoners of Conscience Nguyen Viet Dung, Phan Kim Khanh Placed in Solitary Cells -   Defend the Defenders, January 29, 2020   Authorities in Ba Sao Prison camp have reportedly disciplined two prisoners of conscience Nguyen Viet Dung and Phan Kim Khanh, placing them in solitary cells because they are refusing to confess and disobeying the prison’s rules. Mr. Dung’s mother has told the Radio Free Asia (RFA) that […]
  • Former Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience Tran Thi Nga Honored with Engel-du Tertre Award -   Defend the Defenders, January 29, 2020   The France-based human rights group named Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France) has decided to honor former Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Tran Thi Nga for her contribution against torture and inhumane treatment. The prize named after ACAT-France’s founders Hélène Engel và Edith du Tertre, […]
  • Sentence of Prisoner of Conscience Ngo Hao Suspended for Disease Treatment - Defend the Defenders, January 28, 2020   Vietnam’s authorities have decided to suspend the imprisonment of prisoner of conscience Ngo Hao for one year, allowing him to return home for disease treatment, Defend the Defenders has learned. His family told Defend the Defenders on Monday that Mr. Hao, 72, was permitted to go home on […]
  • Tù nhân lương tâm Ngô Hào được hoãn thi hành án trong tình trạng gần như mù lòa - Hình minh họa. TNLT Ngô Hào tại một phiên tòa RFA, ngày 27/01/2020 Hôm 8 tháng 1 năm 2020, tù nhân lương tâm Ngô Hào, người đang thi hành án ở trại giam An Điềm tỉnh Quảng Nam được hoãn chấp hành bản án 15 năm tù giam vì cáo buộc “Hoạt động nhằm lật […]
  • Hai tù chính trị trẻ Nguyễn Viết Dũng và Phan Kim Khánh bị kỷ luật biệt giam - Hai tù chính trị trẻ Nguyễn Viết Dũng (trái) và Phan Kim Khánh (phải). RFA, ngày 27/01/2020 Hai tù chính trị trẻ Nguyễn Viết Dũng và Phan Kim Khánh đang chịu kỷ luật biệt giam khi đang thụ án ở Trại Nam Hà vì lý do không nhận tội và “nổi loạn”. Vào chiều ngày […]
  • Vietnamese Facebookers Interrogated, Asked to Delete Posts on Coronavirus Warning -   Defend the Defenders, January 26, 2020   Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa have harassed several local Facebookers after they posted the news on Coronavirus infection in the area. State media reported that the province’s Police Department has summoned a number of Facebookers to police stations for interrogation about their recent posts […]
  • Human Rights Watch: Việt Nam và các sự kiện năm 2019 - Human Rights Watch, ngày 16/01/2020   Trong năm 2019 Việt Nam không làm gì mấy để cải thiện hồ sơ yếu kém về nhân quyền của mình. Chính quyền tiếp tục hạn chế tất cả các quyền dân sự và chính trị cơ bản, trong đó có quyền tự do ngôn luận, nhóm họp, lập […]
  • Hanoi-based Activist Kidnapped, Other Threatened with Arrest for Helping Dong Tam Land Petitioners -   Defend the Defenders, January 21, 2020   Police officers from Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security have kidnapped Hanoi-based activist Nguyen Thuy Hanh for interrogation for hours about their assistance given to land petitioners in Dong Tam commune, My Duc district. On the afternoon of January 20, Mrs. Hanh and her husband Huynh Ngoc Chenh went […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Report for January 13-19, 2020: Vietnam Continues Crackdown on Dong Tam Residents and Involving Activists -   Defend the Defenders, January 19, 2020   Authorities in Hanoi have charged 20 residents in Dong Tam commune with murder and two others with “resisting law enforcement officers” several days after the brutal attack of Vietnam’s police in the commune in which local moral leader Le Dinh Kinh was shot to death four times. […]