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  • Vietnam Committee on Human Rights attends Asia Pacific Religious Freedom Forum in Taiwan - VCHR | Feb 24, 2015 PARIS, 24.2.2016 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) described a pattern of grave violations of religious freedom in Vietnam at the Asia Pacific Religious Freedom Forum (APRFF), a high-level gathering of international personalities and organizations engaged in the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief. […]
  • DTD, RSF Hold Cyber Training Workshop in Southern Vietnam Despite Police Harassment - Defend the Defenders, February 23, 2016 Defend the Defenders (DTD), an independent human rights group in Vietnam, in collaboration with Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières -RSF), successfully organized a cyber training course in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on February 20-22 despite constant harassment by the local police. As many as 27 […]
  • VIET NAM MUST IMMEDIATELY RELEASE PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE NGUYỄN VĂN ĐÀI AND LÊ THU HÀ - Amnesty International | Feb 19, 2016 PUBLIC STATEMENT 19 February 2016 Index: ASA 41/3475/2016 Viet Nam must immediately release prisoners of conscience Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà Viet Nam must end the ongoing incommunicado detention of human rights defenders Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà which is in violation of their human […]
  • President Obama needs to speak out on free elections in Vietnam - Washington Post | Feb 15, 2016 While it’s still anyone’s guess who will win November’s presidential election in the United States, I can tell you with certainty — before a ballot is cast — who will win this year’s election in Vietnam. It will be Gen. Tran Dai Quang. I even know who the next prime […]
  • PETITION TO END ONGOING HARASSMENT - Tran Minh Nhat | Feb 17, 2016 To: – International organisations – UN Office – UN Special Rapporteurs – Human rights organisations – Vietnamese and international civil society organisations – Vietnamese and international media – Bishop Antoine Vu Huy Chuong, Bishop of Da Lat Diocese – Bishop Paul Nguyen Thai Hop, President of the Commission […]
  • Vietnam Traffic Police Allowed to Seize Properties despite Strong Public Protest - by Vu Quoc Ngu, Feb 19, 2016 Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has empowered its traffic police to expropriate properties of citizens, including their vehicles and communication devices, despite strong public objection, state media has reported. According to the ministry’s circular which became effective on Feb 15, traffic police can seize properties, including vehicles and […]
  • Vietnam Government Continues Delaying Draft Law on Demonstration - by KTT & VQN Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice has once again asked the National Assembly (NA), the country’s highest legislature, to delay the submit of a draft law on demonstration to the second plenary of the NA’s 14th session in October 2016 instead of the 13th slated in May. There remains a mixed opinion about […]
  • Vietnam President Pays Tribute to Fallen Soldiers Killed by China in 1979 - Activists gathered in Hanoi center to mark the 37th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of six northernmost provinces by Vu Quoc Ngu, Feb 17, 2016 Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on Feb 17 paid a tribute to the fallen soldiers who were killed by Chinese invaders in spring 1979, in the northernmost province of Cao […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders Weekly February 08-14: Vietnam Human Rights Violations Condemned Internationally - Defenders’ Weekly | Feb 14, 2016 =============== February 10======== 35 Members of U.S. Congress Calls on President Obama to Make Human Rights Key Part of Sunnyland Summit Congressman Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) on February 12, along with 34 of his Congressional colleagues, called on President Barack Obama to make human rights a key part of the […]
  • Security Forces in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Province Continue Harassing Local Activist - By Vu Quoc Ngu, Feb 14, 2016 Security forces in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong continue their persecution against Tran Minh Nhat, a former political prisoner and pro-democracy activist, the victim has claimed. Mr. Nhat, who completed his four-year imprisonment in late August last year and still under house arrest, said his family […]