Vietnamese bloggers held for over 18 months in pre-trial detention-CPJ | Nov 19, 2015 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Vietnam to immediately release Nguyen Huu Vinh and Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, who have been held in pre-trial detention since May 5, 2014 on anti-state charges over articles posted on their news site and aggregator Ba Sam and other blogging sites. […]
So what did my husband, Anh Ba Sam, do?-FB Thị Minh Hà Lê | Nov 19, 2015 Due to health issues associated with Northern Vietnam’s weather, I have not been able to be with my husband as often as a wife should in the past years; however, what I know about him remains consistent that he is a patriot who loves his country […]
Vietnam Police Chief Labels Independent CSOs as “Reactionery Groups”-By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 19, 2015 Vietnamese Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang said since mid 2012, around 350 local dissidents, social activists and human rights have formed over 60 unsanctioned civil society organizations (CSOs) which can be labeled as “reactionary groups”. Speaking before the country’s parliament in its ongoing session in […]
VIET NAM: PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE THICH QUANG DO MUST BE RELEASED-Amnesty International | Nov 18, 2015 Joint Open Letter to President Obama endorsed by academics, legislators, artists, religious leaders, members of international institutions and civil society organisations worldwide. The letter calls on President Obama to press Viet Nam to release prominent dissident and Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do. The Honorable Barack Obama President of […]
Civil Society Urges Obama to Push for Release of Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience-Free for all blog | Nov 17, 2015 As U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Southeast Asia this week, ninety international personalities and civil society organizations worldwide have signed a letter urging Mr. Obama to press for the release of Vietnam’s most longstanding prisoner of conscience,Thich Quang Do, leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of […]
Saigon, Catholic buildings targeted by communists. Nuns protest expropriation-Asianews | Nov 17, 2015 Communist authorities and a local religious institution are once again in open conflict in Vietnam over land ownership. The local administration wants to expropriate three schools which have been run by the Congregation of the Lovers of the Holy Cross in Thu Thiem, a district of Ho Chi Minh City […]
Police ‘deliberately targeting’ Vietnamese Catholic activists-Ucanews | Nov 18, 2015 Rights groups in Vietnam have accused police of “deliberately targeting” two Catholic activists, with officers allegedly attacking one of them twice in less than two weeks. Vu Quoc Ngu of local rights group Defend the Defenders told ucanews.com that Tran Minh Nhat was attacked on Nov. 17 “when he went […]
Tran Minh Nhat physically attacked twice in past two weeks-Viet Tan | Nov 18, 2015 Vietnamese human rights activist Tran Minh Nhat was physically attacked and threatened by police outside Lam Ha Hospital on Tuesday afternoon following his recent release from prison. He was also beaten and detained for 12 hours the previous week by plainclothes police while making his way home from Saigon. […]
Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Barbarically Beat Local Dissident, Second Time within Ten Days-By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 17, 2015 Security forces in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on November 17 brutally attacked a local political dissident and detained him to a police station until late afternoon, the victim said. This is the second assault within ten days of the police in Lam Ha district against […]
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