Amid UN Call for Releasing Prisoners of Conscience, Vietnam Sends Second Facebooker to Jail within Two Days-Defend the Defenders, April 28, 2020 Amid the call of UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to release prisoners of conscience in order to protect their health from the deadly Coronavirus infection, Vietnam’s communist regime has sent the second Facebooker named Phan Cong Hai to prison for online activities, Defend the Defenders […]
Vietnam jails man for Facebook posts ‘defaming’ the regime-Facebook is often used as a tool for activists and civilians to disseminate news in Vietnam.PHOTO: AFP HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam sentenced a 24-year-old man to five years in prison on Tuesday (April 28) for Facebook posts that were considered anti-state, as the hardline communist regime ramps up pressure against dissent on the social media […]
Vietnamese Facebooker Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Online Posts, First Activist Convicted in 2020- Defend the Defenders, April 27, 2020 The People’s Court of Ninh Kieu district, Can Tho City on April 27 convicted local resident Chung Hoang Chuong of “abusing democratic freedom” under Article 331 of the country’s Criminal Code for his post on Facebook, Defend the Defenders has learned. The court sentenced him to 18 […]
EU-Vietnam free trade agreement passes despite human rights concerns-International Bar Association, April 24, 2020 The Council of the European Union approved an EU-Vietnam free trade agreement (the ‘Agreement’) in late March, despite concerns from human rights activists. Pending approval from the Vietnamese National Assembly, trade between the EU and Vietnam will soon be tariff-free. When the Agreement – passed by the European Parliament in […]
Coronavirus pandemic is becoming a human rights crisis, UN warns-United Nations secretary general António Guterres at a press briefing in New York in February. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Report released on authoritarian responses, surveillance, closed borders and other rights abuses The Guardian, April 23, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic must not be used as a pretext for authoritarian states to trample over individual human rights […]
Việt Nam: Facebook bị ép kiểm duyệt bất đồng chính kiến-A Vietnamese man logs onto the internet on his iPad in Hanoi, Vietnam. Công ty thỏa hiệp với chính quyền sau khi máy chủ trong nước bị ngắt kết nối Human Rights Watch, ngày 24/4/2020 (New York) – Hôm nay, Tổ chức Theo dõi Nhân quyền phát biểu rằng Facebook đã đầu hàng trước sức ép […]
Vietnam: Facebook, Pressured, Censors Dissent-A Vietnamese man logs onto the internet on his iPad in Hanoi, Vietnam. Company Caves to Government After Local Servers Disrupted Show More Services Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2020 (New York) – Facebook has bowed to pressure by the government of Vietnam and agreed to restrict posts by dissidents, setting a bad precedent for both human […]
Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Vietnam Continues to Stifle Local Dissent, Arresting Third Activist within Two Weeks- Defend the Defenders, April 23, 2020 While the whole country is focusing on dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak, Vietnam’s communist regime does not forget to cement its political monopoly by intensifying its crackdown on local dissent, arresting the third activist within two weeks. This time, its prey is former prisoner of conscience Tran […]
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