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  • Vietnamese Authorities Crack Down on Rare Protests Targeting Xi Visit - RFA | Nov 05, 2015 Activists in Vietnam greeted visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping with rare demonstrations Thursday amid an ongoing dispute over territorial rights in the South China Sea, prompting a harsh crackdown by authorities who beat and detained protesters, sources said. The morning protests in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City came as […]
  • Tường thuật diễn biến cuộc biểu tình phản đối Tập Cận Bình - Dân luận | 05-11-2015 Theo lời kêu gọi của 20 tổ chức xã hội dân sự độc lập ở Việt Nam thì biểu tình chống Tập Cận Bình đến Việt Nam sẽ diễn ra vào 9 giờ sáng nay, ngày 5/11/2015. Danh sách những người bị bắt giữ hôm nay tại Sài Gòn: Hoàng Dũng […]
  • Vietnam Police Brutally Beat Anti-China Activists, Detaining Numerous Protestors - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Nov 05, 2015 Vietnam’s security forces in the morning of Thursday [Nov. 5] violently suppressed demonstrations which protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, brutally beating many activists and detaining dozens of others, according to local media. In Ho Chi Minh City, police barbarically beat many activists, causing severe […]
  • DEMAND RELEASE OF BLOGGER AND ASSISTANT - Amnesty International | Nov 04, 2015 Blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy have been held without trial in Viet Nam since May 2014, in excess of the time allowed under national law. Following a visit in late October by his family and lawyer, there are increasing concerns for Nguyen Huu Vinh’s […]
  • Proposed Vietnam religion law draws ire - Ucanews | Nov 04, 2015 A group of 27 civil society organizations have called on Vietnam to edit a controversial draft law on religion, saying it is wide open to abuse. Lawmakers in Vietnam are expected to pass a new law on religion that religious leaders and rights monitors have long warned will likely worsen […]
  • Police look into assault on two lawyers in Hanoi - Tuoitrenews | Nov 04, 2015 Police are investigating a case in which two lawyers were assaulted in Chuong My District, Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon, following their visit to the house of an inmate beaten to death in prison. Prior to the incident, the two victims, Tran Nhu Nam and Le Van Luan, were meeting Do […]
  • Masked Men Beat Vietnam Lawyers Advising Family of Death in Custody Victim - RFA | Nov 03, 2015 Two lawyers advising the family of a young man who died in police custody on his case were brutally attacked by a group of thugs wearing masks in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi Tuesday, leaving them bloody and bruised, according to one of the victims. Lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Van […]
  • Joint Statement of Concern on Vietnam’s Draft Law on Religion - Civil society organizations | Nov 04, 2015 We, the undersigned civil society organizations are concerned that Vietnam’s draft Law on Belief and Religion1 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 […]
  • Authorities in Vietnam’s Nghe An Continue Harassing Local Political Dissident - By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 4, 2015 Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have constantly been harassing a local political dissident, terroring his family by throwing bricks and stones to his house, the victim has complained. Mr. Tran Duc Thach, 63-year old writer and poet, said the lives of his family’s members are […]
  • Vietnam Police Brutally Beat School Boy, Providing No First Aid for Victim - by Vu Quoc Ngu, November 4, 2015 Police in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh have barbarically beaten a local school boy, providing no the first aid for the victim but leaving him with severe injuries to go home to seek medical emergency, state media has reported. Nguyen Duc Phu, 16, from Huong Hoa commune, […]