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  • Int’l conference promotes human right education in Vietnam - VOV | Nov 13, 2015 Domestic and international experts gathered at a workshop on November 12 in Hanoi to seek ways to boost the study and education of in Vietnam. The event was jointly organised by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, the Law Faculty under the […]
  • Vietnamese Police Detain Lawyer Working on Case of Death-in-Custody Victim - RFA | Nov 12, 2015 A Vietnamese lawyer working on the case of a young man who died in police custody and the related harassment of two attorneys representing the boy’s family said he was illegally detained Wednesday by authorities in Hanoi, as he planned to visit the city’s police chief. Plainclothes police detained Tran […]
  • Hundreds of Vietnamese Lawyers Plan Street Demonstration to Seek Justice for Two Colleagues - By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 11, 2015 A group of around 200 Vietnamese lawyers have planned to hold street demonstrations to demand for justice for their two colleagues who were brutally assaulted by thugs last week. They planned to go to the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People’s Procuracy and the Hanoi Police Department’s headquarters […]
  • Angered by Patriotic Songs, Vietnam Pro-Gov’t Thug Breaks Fingers of Old Street Musician, Destroying His Instruments - By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 11, 2015 A Vietnamese street musician who often sings patriotic songs was brutally attacked by a pro-government thug in  the capital city of Hanoi on November 10 amid rising violence against political dissidents and human rights activists in the communist nation. Mr. Ta Tri Hai, 75, reported that the big […]
  • No Policeman Participates in Assaulting Two Human Rights Lawyers: Hanoi Authorities - By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 11, 2015 Policemen had not taken part in beating two human rights lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Van Luan on November 3, contrary to the victims’ claim, said the Hanoi Department of Police at a press conference on November 10. The police in the capital city said the assault, […]
  • Vietnamese Authorities Detain And Beat Two Human Rights Activists - RFA | Nov 09, 2015 Vietnamese police beat and detained two activists on Sunday in the town of Dinh Van as they traveled from Ho Chi Minh City to their homes in a village in a Central Highlands province in the latest incident of harassment against defenders of human rights. One of the two men, […]
  • Joint Statement of Concern on Vietnam’s Draft Law on Religion - Freedom House | Nov 09, 2015 We, the undersigned civil society organizations are concerned that Vietnam’s draft Law on Belief and Religion [1] is inconsistent with the right to freedom of religion or belief. We call upon the Government to comprehensively revise the draft Law to conform with Vietnam’s obligations under international human rights law […]
  • Công an Hà Nội: Luật sư Thu Nam bị đánh vì phóng xe hơi gây bụi - SBTN | 10-11-2015 Tám người tham gia đánh hai luật sư Trần Thu Nam và Lê Văn Luân được công an xác định là vì lý do thấy xe ô tô phóng nhanh làm bắn bụi bẩn lên người và hai luật sư là người lạ nên chặn đường đánh. Theo báo Lao Động đưa […]
  • Vietnam Central Highlands Police Severely Beat Local Dissident, Questioning Another Pro-democracy Activist - By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 10, 2015 Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on November 8 brutally beat Tran Minh Nhat, a local political dissident, and detained pro-democracy activist Chu Manh Son for interrogation. The assault happened on Sunday when Mr. Nhat and Mr. Son, two former prisoners of conscience, were on […]
  • Torture, Inhumane Treatment in Vietnam Detention Facilities at Alarming Level: Legislator - By Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 10, 2015 Police torture and other degrading treatment in Vietnamese prisons and detention facilities have become out of control, said Truong Trong Nghia, member of Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA). Speaking at a parliament’s discussion on the draft Law on Custody and Temporary Detention on November 9, the Danang […]