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  • VIET NAM: GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWNS ON PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS WITH RANGE OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, INCLUDING TORTURE AND OTHER ILL-TREATMENT - Amnesty International | May 20, 2016 The Vietnamese  authorities have cracked  down heavily in response to a series  of demonstrations taking place  throughout the country in May 2016, organised  following an ecological  catastrophe that has decimated the nation’s  fish stocks.  Wide-ranging police measures to prevent  and punish participation in demonstrations has resulted in a range […]
  • Detained for defending human rights in Viet Nam - Amnesty International | May 19, 2016 Vu Minh Khanh hasn’t seen or heard from her husband Nguyen Van Dai, since police arrested him in December 2015. This is her story. I am not an activist. Before my husband’s arrest, I was volunteering at our church in Hanoi. Because of his arrest, I am forced to […]
  • HRW Condemns Vietnam Ongoing Crackdown against Environmentalists - by Vu Quoc Ngu, May 19, 2016 Vietnam’s government should immediately stop all harassment, intimidation, and persecution of environmental activists, said Human Rights Watch in its press release on May 18. Condemning the ongoing crackdown on peaceful environmental protesters in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and other Vietnamese localities, said the New York-based international non-governmental […]
  • Vietnam: Crackdown on Peaceful Environmental Protesters - HRW | 18-05-2016 Vietnam’s government should immediately stop all harassment, intimidation, and persecution of environmental activists, said Human Rights Watch today. The government should respect their right to peaceful protest and release anyone still wrongfully held. On the last three Sundays – May 1, 8, and 15 – thousands of people in Hanoi, Ho Chi […]
  • REP. LORETTA SANCHEZ LEADS BIPARTISAN LETTER URGING PRESIDENT OBAMA TO RAISE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN VIETNAM - WASHINGTON, D.C. | May 17, 2016 Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46), founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Vietnam, today led a letter with 19 bipartisan members of Congress urging President Obama to raise concerns about Vietnam’s ongoing human rights violations and to advocate for the release of all Vietnamese prisoners of conscience during the […]
  • Vietnam pastor’s wife beaten, interrogated; son arrested - Christianmessenger | May 17, 2016 TRAN Thi Hong, a Vietnamese activist and wife of imprisoned pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, says her family was harassed by the authorities and her son arrested between 11 and 13 May. Mrs Hong is a member of the civil society organisation Vietnamese Women for Human Rights (VNWHR) and the wife […]
  • Imprisoned pastor’s wife intensely interrogated again by Vietnamese authorities - Christiandaily | May 17, 2016 The wife of an imprisoned Mennonite Church pastor has once again undergone an intense interrogation by Vietnamese local authorities for her meeting with representatives of the U.S. religious freedom delegation two months ago. Tran Thi Hong, wife of pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, reportedly received a request from local authorities, instructing […]
  • Vietnam’s Fishy Fish Deaths: A Bouillabaisse Of Politics, PR And Business - FORBES | May 17, 2016 Tons of dead fish washing up on the shores of central Vietnam, the competing interests of industrial development and nascent environmental awareness, Facebook and an exercise in maybe how not to do public relations. It has been an interesting month or so in Vietnam, and while these disparate elements might […]
  • Twenty U.S. Congress Members Urge Obama to Address Vietnam’s Ongoing Suppression - by Vu Quoc Ngu, May 18, 2016 Twenty U.S. Congress members have sent their joint letter to U.S. President Barack Obama to take specific measures to demand Vietnam’s communist government to end its ongoing suppression against political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders. The joint letter signed by Loretta Sanchez, Zoe Lofgren, Alan S. […]
  • Vietnam Prominent Prisoner of Conscience Plans Long-lasting Hunger Strike, Rejecting to Live in Exile in U.S. - By Vu Quoc Ngu, May 17, 2016 Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, a prisoner of conscience serving his 16-year term, has announced that he will start a long-lasting hunger strike on May 24 to demand rule of law and a national referendum on political system in Vietnam, said his family members. He announced his decision at […]