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  • Vietnam: Proposed Constitutional Amendments Go Against International Law - On  25 Mar 2013 ARTICLE 19 warns that proposed amendments to the 1992 Constitution for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Draft Constitution) fail to protect fundamental human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression and information. Protections for these rights must be formulated more comprehensively and in more precise language, and broad and […]
  • Vietnam: Rights Dialogue Should Produce Concrete Steps - Time for Government to Begin Delivering on Human Rights APRIL 10, 2013 (Washington, DC) – The Vietnamese government should use the opportunity of the upcoming US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue to release political prisoners and make commitments to end the persecution of bloggers, land rights activists, and other peaceful critics, Human Rights Watch said today. The […]
  • Việt Nam: Đối thoại nhân quyền cần tạo ra chuyển biến cụ thể - Bản dịch của Lê Thiên Hà (Defend the Defenders) Đã đến lúc chính phủ bắt tay vào việc thực thi quyền con người (Washington, DC) APRIL 10, 2013 – Tổ chức giám sát nhân quyền Human Rights Watch (HRW) phát biểu ngày hôm nay là Chính phủ Việt Nam cần nhân cơ hội cuộc Đối thoại […]
  • Vietnamese Dissidents Attacked by Police-Linked Thugs - Reported by Mac Lam for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. 2013-04-09. Unidentified assailants believed to be connected to the police on Tuesday ambushed and severely beat a Vietnamese dissident a day after he tried to shield a prominent woman land rights activist from harassment and attack by suspected government agents, according […]
  • Vietnam Crony Communists Resist Constitution Backlash - On April 08, 2013 – While filming a documentary about Ho Chi Minh as his compatriots battled U.S. forces in the 1960s, Tran Van Tan observed how the Communist leader’s embrace of a simple lifestyle endeared him to Vietnam’s poor. Five decades later, Tan says the Communist Party’s leaders are more concerned with enriching themselves […]
  • Vietnamese Folk Hero Gets Five-Year Sentence - April 5, 2013, 12:57 p.m. ET – By JAMES HOOKWAY And NGUYEN ANH THU HAIPHONG, Vietnam – Two Vietnamese fish farmers who laid mines and fired homemade guns at police attempting to evict them were convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Friday in a case that has cast a spotlight on the contentious issue […]
  • Buddhist blogger Huynh Ngoc Tuan and family subjected to harassment - 2013-04-06 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 6 April 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Prominent Buddhist blogger and writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan informs the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights(VCHR) that on 3 April 2013, he was the victim of harassment by unknown men, presumably hired hands of the local security forces. At midnight, he suddenly heard a […]
  • Vietnamese ‘Folk Hero’ Gets Five Years for Defending Farm - A court in northern Vietnam on Friday sentenced a former soldier-turned farmer and his family members up to five years in prison for putting up an armed fight against security forces who evicted them from their farm in a case highlighting public resentment over government land grabs. The Hai Phong People’s Court delivered unexpectedly “lenient” […]
  • Vietnamese Authorities’ Violations of Our Family’s Civil Liberties and Human Rights – Updated on Apr 4, 2013 - Dirty tricks of the communist security force again Huynh Thuc Vy – Tam Ky, Apr 4, 2013. At midnight on 3 April 2013, when my family was sleeping, my father heard the sound of a motorbike arriving at the house, near his sleeping place (his sleeping room lies next to the village road). Then, there […]
  • Declaration: Justice for Doan Van Vuon - Doan Van Vuon and relatives at the court (photo of TTXVN) (Translated by Doan Trang) Whereas, in the legal case of Doan Van Vuon (name in Vietnamese: Đoàn Văn Vươn), the local authority of Tien Lang (Tiên Lãng) district, Hai Phong (Hải Phòng) has committed a great many wrongdoings in performing “official duty”, violating the principle […]