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  • US Ambassador to Vietnam Dismayed About Detentions of Dissidents - RFA |Dec 29, 2015 The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam on Tuesday expressed concern about recent reports of harassment and detentions of human rights advocates, including the recent arrest of a prominent rights advocate in the repressive Southeast Asian country. Ambassador Ted Osius cited the Dec. 16 arrest of dissident lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai […]
  • Vietnam National Assembly fine-tunes legal system - VOV | Dec 28, 2015 Over the past 70 years, the Vietnamese National Assembly’s legislation has created a firm legal foundation for the building of a law-governed Vietnamese state of the people, by the people, and for the people. It has also contributed significantly to national development and international integration. Legislation is one of the […]
  • Vietnamese authorities prohibit thousands of Kontum Christians from celebrating Christmas - Asia News | Dec 28, 2015 Christmas was banned in Vietnam’s Kontum (Central Highlands) province, where the authorities cancelled Christmas Mass celebrations in at least two parishes of the diocese, leaving thousands of expectant faithful astonished. The first parish involved was  Đăk Lâk, in the municipality of Đăk Môn, Đăk Glei district, where there were […]
  • 2015 HUMAN RIGHTS DOSSIER - VNWHR | Dec 28, 2015 In 2015, the following violations of Vietnamese women’s human rights were noted. JANUARY 2015 January 12, 2015 – Police attacked 12 activists when they visited prisoner of conscience Trần Anh Kim. A group of 12 activists and dissidents denounced that they were viciously attacked the hooligans and uniformed police on […]
  • Hồ sơ Nhân Quyền 2015 - Hội PNNQVN | 28-12-2015 Trong năm 2015 điểm qua các sự kiện chính vi phạm quyền con người của phụ nữ sau đây:  Tháng 1 12 nhà hoạt động tố cáo bị hành hung khi đi thăm ông Trần Anh Kim (Ngày 21/1) 12 nhà hoạt động tố cáo bị hành hung khi đi thăm […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders Weekly December 21-27: Vietnam Continues Harassing Human Rights Defenders after International Condemnation - Defenders’ Weekly | Dec 27, 2015 =========== Dec 20=========== U.S. ‘deeply concerned’ by arrest of Vietnam rights activist Reuters: The United States said on Monday it was deeply concerned by the arrest of a Vietnamese human rights lawyer and called on Hanoi to release all prisoners of conscience. Rights activist Nguyen Van Dai, who was […]
  • Tuần tin người bảo vệ nhân quyền 21/12-27/12/2015: Chiến dịch một bàn tay: #Free Nguyễn Văn Đài - Defenders’ Weekly | 27-12-2015 ***************************21/12/2015******************** Vợ Luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài công bố thỉnh nguyện thư đòi trả tự do cho chồng Bà Vũ Minh Khánh, vợ của Luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài đã công bố một thỉnh nguyện thư, yêu cầu nhà cầm quyền Cộng Sản Việt Nam trả tự do cho chồng bà. […]
  • Vietnam Persecution Wave against Activists Continues ahead of Communists’ National Congress, Children Also Targeted - By Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 26, 2015 Vietnam’s police nationwide have been intensifying persecutions against local activists ahead of the ruling communist party’s National Congress, targeting political dissidents, social activists and human rights defenders and even their young children. In Ho Chi Minh City, police on December 25 detained about ten activists, beating them brutally […]
  • 70 CSOs and POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, 900 INDIVIDUALS and 900 HUMAN RIGHTS HANDS CALL FOR RELEASE of ATTORNEY NGUYEN VAN DAI and LE THU HA - FVPoC | Dec 24, 2015 On the morning of 16 December 2015, as he just left his house to go and meet with the European Union mission in Hanoi for human rights dialogue Attorney NGUYEN VAN DAI (born 1969) was forced by public security police to go back inside his home.  They read to him […]
  • VN prisoners get newspapers, TV - Vietnamnews | Dec 25, 2015 Prisoners will get access to internal cable network, colour television and printed newspapers, a document on amendment and supplementary contents to Decree 90/2015 on prisoner management said. Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang has issued the document. According to Decree 90, a stockade holding less than 30 prisoners will […]