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  • Thai Binh Police Kidnap Local Dissident, Detaining His Wife - Police in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Binh have kidnapped local political dissident, detained his wife for hours and searched his house as well as took away a number of his items, Ngo Duy Quyen, a Hanoi-based activist has informed. by Vu Quoc Ngu, September 21, 2015 Police in Vietnam’s northern province of Thai Binh have […]
  • Two Vietnamese Allowed to Study in Police Institute despite Father’s Criminal Past - by Vu Quoc Ngu, Sept. 21, 2015 Nguyen Duc Nga from Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An will be the second individual qualified to study in a police institute despite bad criminal records of his father, state media has reported. In Nga’s case, Minister of Public Security General Tran Dai Quang directly asked the police […]
  • Một người dân bị đánh gãy xương sườn tại trụ sở ủy ban xã - SBTN | 20-09-2015 Bị bắt về trụ sở ủy ban xã, ông Vũ Văn Điều sau đó bị Phó công an xã Duy Hải – huyện Duy Linh – tỉnh Hà Nam đánh đập dã man. Sự việc khiến ông Điều bị gãy 4 xương sườn, đọng máu phổi. Theo gia đình của ông Điều […]
  • Famous blogger released – leaves for United States - vietnamrightnow | Sep 20, 2015 One of Vietnam’s best known independent bloggers, Ta Phong Tan, has been released from prison after serving three years of a ten year jail term. Reports said that she was taken to the airport and put on a flight to Los Angeles immediately after leaving the prison in Thanh Hoa […]
  • CPJ welcomes release of Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan - CPJ | Sep 20, 2015 New York, September 20, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release from prison of Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan and calls on authorities to release all other journalists and bloggers imprisoned in the country. Tan was freed from prison and traveled to the United States, where she arrived late […]
  • Vietnam frees anti-state blogger, U.S. calls for more releases - Reuters | Sep 20, 2015 Vietnam has released a high-profile blogger who has traveled to the United States, the American embassy said on Sunday, but a human right group said the move extended a “cynical” practice by Hanoi to send its critics into exile. Ta Phong Tan, a former police officer, was sentenced to 10 […]
  • Prominent Blogger Ta Phong Tan Released, Becoming Third Vietnamese Political Prisoner to Live in Exile in U.S. - by Vu Quoc Ngu, Sept. 20, 2015 Vietnam’s communist government, which wants supports from the U.S. in TPP negotiations, has agreed to free prominent blogger Ta Phong Tan but forced her to live in the U.S., the RFA has reported. According to the RFA, Miss Tan, who has been serving her ten-year imprisonment in the […]
  • Kerry urges Vietnam to embrace change - Times Leader | Sep 18, 2015 HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — John Kerry first set foot in Vietnam 44 years ago, a young U.S. Navy officer fighting in a war that would come to profoundly influence his political career and foreign policy thinking. He returned again Saturday, this time as America’s top diplomat, offering […]
  • Vietnam continues enhancing role in United Nations - Vnanet | Sep 19, 2015 Vietnam has worked across a broad spectrum to enhance her role in the United Nations (UN) and strengthen her ties with UN agencies, Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga told Vietnam News Agency reporters in a recent interview on the occasion of the September 15 opening of the UN General Assembly (UNGA)’s […]
  • Vietnam vows to ensure children’s rights - Vietnamplus | Sep 18, 2015 Vietnam pledges to make more efforts to fulfill its obligations as a member to the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, and work closely with related agencies in the field, Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh has said. The diplomat attended at an international debate on the rights of children […]