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  • Biểu tình đòi ngưng dự án xả thải ở Đắk Lắk: Người Ê-đê bị Cảnh sát đánh đập - Người đồng bào Ê-đê ở xã Ea Bhốk (huyện Cư Kuin) phản đối dự án xả thải vào hồ, hàng chục cảnh sát cơ động (CSCĐ) được điều đến trấn áp khiến nhiều người bị thương và bị bắt giữ trong ngày 21/4. Theo chính quyền tỉnh Đắk Lắk, dự án Hệ thống thoát nước […]
  • Vietnam Defend the Defenders’ Weekly Report for April 17-23, 2023: Thai Police Likely Start Investigation of Vietnamese Blogger Duong Van Thai’s Disappearance - Defend the Defenders | April 23, 2023 It is likely that the Thai Royal Police have started their investigation of the missing case of Vietnamese blogger Duong Van Thai who has been in Thailand since February 2019 as a political refugee. Representatives of the Thai Royal Police have contacted Ms. Grace Bui, a Vietnamese American […]
  • Vietnamese Blogger Reportedly Kidnapped in Bangkok - The kidnapping, which coincided with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Vietnam last week, highlights the gaps in interests and perceptions between Washington and Hanoi. A prominent Vietnamese blogger and YouTuber seeking asylum in Thailand has been abducted by Vietnamese intelligence agents and forcibly returned to his country, according to media and civil […]
  • Project 88: Việt Nam dùng luật làm vũ khí bỏ tù các nhà hoạt động môi trường - Tổ chức Dự án 88 chuyên cổ xúy cho nhân quyền, tự do ngôn luận tại Việt Nam vào ngày 21/4 công bố phúc trình về biện pháp của Chính phủ Hà Nội sử dụng luật làm vũ khí kết án những nhà hoạt động môi trường. Phúc trình dài 88 trang có tên “Weaponizing the law […]
  • Vietnam weaponized the law to punish environmental activists - A farmer walks past burning straw stubble in a rice field in Can Tho, Vietnam, on Feb. 28. (Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images) Four environmental activists in Vietnam are in prison for “tax evasion.” But that is not the real reason. They were close associates working on a campaign to reduce Vietnam’s reliance on coal, and they […]
  • Vietnam: Four Climate Activists Are Political Prisoners, Report Says - Bangkok, April 21, 2023 The government of Vietnam used charges of tax evasion to jail four dissidents known as the Vietnam Four for their roles in climate activism, a human rights group says in a new report. The 88 Project is a Vietnam human rights group headquartered in the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois. Its 88-page […]
  • Hà Tĩnh: Hai phụ nữ tố cáo lãnh đạo xã chiếm đất công bị khởi tố theo Điều 331 - Hai phụ nữ tại Hà Tĩnh vừa bị Công an tỉnh này khởi tố, bắt giữ với cáo buộc phát tán tài liệu, treo băng rôn, khẩu hiệu nói xấu cơ quan đoàn thể không đúng sự thật lên mạng xã hội. Tin trên được đăng trên cổng thông tin Công an Hà Tĩnh trong ngày 22/4. […]
  • Thai police, Vietnamese activists gather clues on blogger’s disappearance - Thai authorities have been investigating the disappearance of a Vietnamese dissident blogger believed to have been abducted from Bangkok last week as activists continue to review security camera footage from areas near the man’s home. The Special Forces of Thailand’s Royal Police contacted Vietnamese-American human rights activist Grace Bui and other close friends of missing […]
  • Vietnam orders media to scrub all content about prominent writer’s death - Vietnam has ordered media outlets to remove news coverage about the death of literary critic and poet Dang Tien, and not to publish further reports about him because he was a member of a literature organization the government claims is anti-communist, sources in the country told Radio Free Asia. Dang Tien, best known for his […]
  • Australia: Press Vietnam on Poor Rights Record - HRW, Sydney, April 20, 2023: The Australian government should press Vietnam’s leadership to end its systemic human rights violations at the upcoming dialogue between the two countries, Human Rights Watch said today. The Australia-Vietnam 18th bilateral human rights dialogue is scheduled for April 24-25, 2023, in Hanoi. Australian leaders should use the opportunity of the two countries’ 50th […]