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  • Leading Vietnam Blogger Draws Five-Year Sentence - Asia Sentinel | Mar 24, 2016 Anh Ba Sam charged with “encroaching on state interests” The Hanoi People’s Court on March 23 sentenced prominent independent blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh, known also by his pen name Anh Ba Sam or “Brother Gossip,” to five years in prison for charges related to his work. Under the Vietnamese Criminal […]
  • CPJ: Vietnamese bloggers imprisoned for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’ - Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Bangkok, March 23, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns a Hanoi court’s sentencing today of two Vietnamese bloggers to prison terms on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms.” In a one-day trial, Hanoi’s People’s Court sentenced Nguyen Huu Vinh, founder of the news website and aggregator Ba Sam, […]
  • Viet Blogger Draws Five Years in Jail - David Brown, March 25, 2016 The Hanoi People’s Court on March 23 sentenced a prominent independent blogger, Nguyễn Hữu Vinh (pen name Anh Ba Sam or “Brother Gossip” to five years’ imprisonment on charges of “misusing democratic freedom to encroach on State interests [and] the legitimate rights of groups and individuals” according to the Vietnamese […]
  • Vietnam Corruption Fighter Imprisoned Over Seven Months, Second Sentence against Him Within 9 Years -   By Vu Quoc Ngu, March 25, 2016 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa on March 24 sentenced 73-year-old corruption fighter Dinh Tat Thang to seven months and 11 days on charge of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations […]
  • Vietnam Well-known Journalist Severely Beaten by Thugs - by NTN, March 25, 2016 Journalist Do Doan Hoang from Vietnam’s state-controlled Lao Dong newspaper was brutally beaten by three thugs in Hanoi in the morning of March 23, state media has reported. Hoang, 40, was attacked by thugs with wooden batons in the city’s outskirt during field trip near Kim Lu urban area. He […]
  • Vietnamese Activists Face Arrest While Trying to Attend Political Trials - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 25, 2016 Vietnamese activists are facing detention if they try to attend political trials as well as hearings of other cases relating to other sensitive cases, according to Circular 13 of Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security. In its Circular 13, which became effective on March 24, the Ministry of Public […]
  • Foreign Governments, Organizations Condemn Vietnam over Sentences of Bloggers - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 25, 2016 A number of foreign governments and international human rights bodies, including the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), the London-based Amnesty International and the New York-based Human Rights Watch have condemned Vietnam’s government over imprisoning prominent blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (aka Anh […]
  • VIET NAM: CONVICTIONS OF NGUYEN HU’U VINH AND NGUYEN THI MINH THUY ARE AN OUTRAGEOUS CONTRAVENTION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION - Amnesty International | Mar 23, 2016 Today’s convictions of blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and his assistant Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms” are a shameful abdication of the country’s human rights obligations, Amnesty International has said. The convictions represent an outrageous contravention of the right to freedom of expression which Viet […]
  • Vietnam: Imprisonment of blogger and activist condemned - FIDH & Vietnam Committee on Human rights | Mar 23, 2016 PARIS, 23 March 2016: The Vietnamese government must immediately end the ongoing repression of peaceful dissent, release all political prisoners, and repeal its draconian legislation, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR)said today. The two organizations reiterated their demands in […]
  • Two Police Officers Promoted to Three-star Generals amid Intensified Crackdown - by Vu Quoc Ngu, March 23, 2016 Outgoing Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on March 22 promoted Deputy Ministers of Public Security Nguyen Van Thanh and Pham Dung to senior lieutenant general amid increasing crackdown against peaceful political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders. Thanh, a member of the Central Committee of the ruling […]