Vietnamese Lawyer Beaten by Masked Men Following Human Rights Class-RFA | Dec 07, 2015 Masked assailants in Vietnam detained and beat a dissident lawyer and his fellow activists after they led a class to educate residents of Nghe An province about their human rights, he said Monday, upon returning to his home in the capital Hanoi. Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai told RFA’s Vietnamese Service […]
Vietnam Security Forces Block Four Activists from Visiting Myanmar-By Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 7, 2015 Vietnam’s security forces on Sunday [December 6] barred four activists from leaving to country to Myanmar where they were invited by the National League for Democracy (NLD). Writer Pham Chi Thanh, who runs Ba Dam Xoe blog, and poet Nguyen Tuong Thuy, vice president of the unsanctioned Independent […]
Security Agents in Central Vietnam Attack Four Hanoi-based Activists Ahead of Int’l Human Rights Day- By Vu Quoc Ngu, Dec 07, 2015 On afternoon of Sunday [December 6], just four days ahead of International Human Rights Day, security forces in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An severely assaulted human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and three pro-democracy activists Vu Van Minh, Ly Quang Son and Le Manh Thang who […]
Vietnam Passes Transgender Rights Law, But Is It Good Enough?-Care2 | Dec 06, 2015 Vietnam’s parliament has passed legislation that is aimed at protecting its transgender citizens. The bill focuses on legalizing sexual reassignment surgery as well as legally recognizing the new gender of those who have undergone the procedure. It’s largely seen as a positive step by Vietnam’s transgender community – who often had to […]
Luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài bị hành hung sau “Thảo luận nhân quyền”-Dân luận | 06-12-2015 Luật sư Nguyễn Văn Đài, cựu tù nhân lương tâm, người vừa cáo buộc bị an ninh tấn công sau cuộc Thảo luận về Nhân quyền ở huyện Nam Đàn, Nghệ An. Theo luật sư Đài, cùng bị tấn công với ông còn có 3 bạn trẻ khác là Trần Quang […]
Vietnamese Student Jailed for Facebook Posts-VOA | Dec 03, 2015 A Vietnamese student and his friend have been sentenced to six months in prison for Facebook posts that advised drivers how to evade temporary traffic checkpoints in the northern city of Hai Phong. The court this week found Nguyen Duc Hao, 21, and Tran Huy Lieu, 23, guilty of “illegally […]
Senator Ngo Condemns Vietnam’s Continuous Record of Human Rights Violations-Ottawa, December 4, 2015 – Today Senator Thanh Hai Ngo issued the following statement: “I am deeply concerned about recent cases of human rights violations in Vietnam during November 2015, which show that the human right problems in Vietnam remain critical. In Vietnam today, religious leaders, civil society activists and bloggers continue to face daily […]
Vietnam, EU release joint press statement-Dtinews | Dec 03, 2015 The following is the joint press statement by PM Nguyen Tan Dung, President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker: On the 25 years since the establishment of our diplomatic relations, we are proud of our maturing comprehensive and political partnership. We welcome the […]
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