Conference reviews Vietnam’s human rights achievements over 70 years-Vietnam Law | Dec 10, 2015 Vietnam has spent almost 40 years at war over the past seven decades, but is finally living in a state of peace and development, director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics Ta Ngoc Tan toldVietnam News on the sidelines of a conference themed “70 Years of […]
CITIZEN-JOURNALIST NGUYEN VAN DAI BADLY BEATEN- RSF | Dec 10, 2015 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by the severe beating that citizen-journalist and cyber-activist Nguyen Van Dai received from plainclothes policemen in the northern province of Nghe An on 6 December, shortly after he participated in a discussion about human rights in Vietnam and the 2013 constitution. Around 60 […]
Strengthening legal and judicial reforms to ensure human rights and civil rights-dangcongsan | Dec 09, 2015 Progress in implementing the new Constitution and results from legal and judicial reforms and ensuring human and civil rights were at the core of the discussions at the Legal Partnership Forum on December 8th 2015 in Ha Noi. The forum was co-chaired by Mr. Ha Hung Cuong, Member of the Party […]
Vietnam’s 70-year human rights achievements highlighted-vietnamplus | Dec 09, 2015 Vietnam’s achievements in ensuring human rights over the past 70 years came under spotlight at a seminar held by the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (NPA) in Hanoi on December 9. Speaking at the event, NPA Director Ta Ngoc Tan underlined that the Party and State of Vietnam […]
Vietnam: Christian lawyer beaten by police after human rights conference-christiantoday | Dec 09, 2015 A Christian lawyer has been assaulted after attending a controversial human rights event in Vietnam, according to religious freedom charity CSW. Nguyen Van Dai attended a forum on Sunday that sought to educate Vietnamese citizens about their rights, including the freedom of religion or belief, which police had requested be […]
Wife of Jailed Vietnamese Environmental Activist Appeals to UN, Foreign Groups For Help-RFA | Dec 08, 2015 Members of an environmental protection group jailed two years ago in Vietnam on charges of plotting to overthrow the government are innocent and should be freed, the wife of the group’s leader said this week, adding that she has asked international organizations to intervene in the case. Twenty-two members of […]
Viet Nam: End wave of brutal attacks against human rights defenders-Amnesty International | Dec 09, 2015 The Vietnamese authorities must put an end to a wave of vicious and violent attacks on human rights defenders and end the persistent impunity by ensuring those responsible are brought to justice, Amnesty International said. In the latest attack on Sunday 6 December, four activists – including prominent human […]
Hanoi Court Rejects Appeal of Land Petitioner Vu Thi Hai but Reduces Sentence to 15 Months-By Vu Quoc Ngu, December 09, 2015 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Wednesday [December 09] rejected the appeal of Ninh Binh province-based land petitioner Vu Thi Hai but reduced her 18-month imprisonment to 15 months in jail in a nominally opentrial that was in fact closed to the public and […]
Prominent activist, Nguyen Van Dai, badly beaten in latest assault-Vietnam Right Now | Dec 07, 2015 The human rights campaigner and lawyer, Nguyen Van Dai, and three of his associates, have been attacked and robbed by masked men during a visit to fellow activists in central Vietnam. They were in a taxi heading back to Hanoi when they were intercepted by men they identified […]
Activists beaten, robbed by paramilitaries in Vietnam-Asia Sentinel | Dec 08, 2015 Vietnam continues to pay a disheartening lack of attention to human rights violations despite continuing promises that the situation would improve with passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which contains language covering abuses, as the ordeal of a Hanoi-based human rights lawyer and his associates demonstrates. On Dec. 6, Nguyen […]
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