GENERAL

  • An Interview with Engineer Do Nam Hai on the Announcement - Reporter – Internet Radio Rallying for Democracy: Kind regards to Do Nam Hai, the democracy activist and dissident, is here for an interview today.  Do Nam Hai: Greetings and welcome to the listeners of Radio Rallying for Democracy. I am Do Nam Hai, speaking from Saigon, Việtnam.
  • Spate of trials - TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2012. Reporters Without Borders deplores the five-year jail sentence that a Hanoi people’s court passed on the blogger Le Thanh Tung at the end of a summary one-hour trial on 11 August, just three days after fellow blogger Dinh Dang Dinh was given a six-year sentence (below).
  • THE ANNOUNCEMENT on the death of Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng – Mother of blogger Ta Phong Tan being illegally detained. - Vietnam, August 8, 2012. To the attention of:   Vietnamese compatriots, domestic and abroad. And to:   The governments, diplomatic missions, human rights organizations and progressive people worldwide. We are deeply sad but we have to speak out about the tragic and mystery death of Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng – 64 years, on 30 July, 2012 […]
  • Viet Nam: Halt crackdown on freedom of expression - 7 August 2012 – Viet Nam’s government must halt its ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today after mass arrests during a peaceful protest in the capital Ha Noi.
  • Acting Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Geneva, 3 August 2012, Ravina Shamdasani: We are concerned by what appears to be increasingly limited space for freedom of expression in Viet Nam. Information that we have received indicates ongoing persecution of bloggers and people who use the Internet and other means to freely express their opinions.
  • Vietnam Postpones Trial of Bloggers for Third Time - Aug 3 2012 – 3:50pm: Freedom House condemns today’s decision to postpone the August 7 trial for three Vietnamese bloggers. This is the third time the court has delayed the trial, which stems from charges widely considered to be punishment for their criticism of the government. Freedom House calls for the Vietnamese government to drop all […]
  • U.S. Embassy’s Statement on Lieng Self-immolation - August 1, 2012 – We were deeply concerned and saddened to hear of Ms. Dang Thi Kim Lieng’s July 30 self-immolation reportedly related to circumstances surrounding the detention of her daughter Ta Phong Tan.
  • Viet Nam: Open Letter To Embassies About the Upcoming Trial of 3 Bloggers - 31 July 2012 Attn:  Heads of Missions: Embassies of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of […]
  • Imprisoned blogger’s mother self-immolates in Vietnam - New York, July 30, 2012–The mother of an imprisoned Vietnamese blogger died after setting herself on fire to protest her daughter’s detention on anti-state charges, her family has told international news outlets.
  • HARSHER CRACKDOWN ON DISSIDENTS PROMPTS ACT OF DESPAIR - RSF 30 July, 2012 – Dang Thi Kim Lieng, the mother of the jailed blogger Ta Phong Tan, died after setting fire to herself today outside the headquarters of the People’s Committee in Bac Lieu, Tan’s home province, in an act of despair about her dissident daughter’s trial next week in Ho Chi Minh City for criticizing […]