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  • Vietnam deputies deny expansion of investigative rights to commune-level police - Tuoitrenews | Jun 04, 2015 Lawmakers rejected on Tuesday an expansion of investigative rights to more state agencies, including commune-level police and units of the fishery surveillance, tax and stock committees. At the law-making National Assembly’s discussion session about the draft law on the organization of criminal investigation agencies and the bill on detention, deputies […]
  • Vietnam Imprisons Two Relatives of Schoolboy Who Brutally Killed by Police - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 04, 2015 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa on June 2 sentenced two relatives of Tu Ngoc Thach, a school boy killed by local police in late 2013, to 15 months in jail each on charge of disturbing social order, state media reported Tuesday. According […]
  • Hanoi Resident Said to Self-immolate in Police Station, Investigation Stopped - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 04, 2015 The Hanoi police said they will stop investigation into the death of Mrs. Nguyen Hong Luong in a local police station, saying her death was caused by respiratory and circulatory failures as she immolated herself, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Wednesday. Three-star Colonel Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy […]
  • Vietnam intends to abolish the death penalty people on corruption offenses represent unfair - Inews163 | Jun 03, 2015 Recently, Vietnam thirteenth Congress is being held the ninth meeting considered the “Criminal Law (Amendment),” the draft, the draft proposes the abolition of the death penaltysentencing of some crimes, which in addition to robbery, outside of undermining national security vital public facilities, insubordination, collaborators, war crimes, drug trafficking and other […]
  • Bishop of Kontum calls for patience and dialogue to stem attacks on religious freedom - Asia News | Jun 03, 2015 Ho Chi Minh City – “In our life, difficulties are a constant daily, everywhere and at all times. There are difficulties that affect individuals, families and the community as a whole. […] But when you face a number of problems, you need to show patience, become promoters of dialogue […]
  • Police assault Pham Thanh Nghien and members of the NVB - Dan lam bao | Jun 04-2015 At midday of June 2, 2015, several members of the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers, including Nguyễn Tiến Nam from Yên Bái, Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh (a.k.a. Mẹ Nấm, Mother Mushroom) from Nha Trang, and Dương Lâm from Sài Gòn came together to discuss on the Southeast Asian Sea dispute […]
  • Vietnam Urged to Keep Detention Facilities away from Investigation Agencies - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 03, 2015 Vietnam should maintain detention facilities independent from the investigation agencies of the Ministry of Public Security to halt arbitrary arrest, degrading treatment and torture, said Mr. Nguyen Van Duong, member of Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly. The detention facilities and prisons should be managed by the Ministry […]
  • FVPoC: Khanh Hoa provincial court should void its sentences to Nguyen van Ly and Mai Dinh Tam - FVPoC | Jun 03, 2015 Yesterday June 2, 2015 Khanh Hoa province court sentenced Nguyen Van Ly (43 years) and Mai Dinh Tam (47 years) 15 month imprisonment for each with the charge of “cause public disorder”. The conviction and sentence show the nature of a police states, violating seriously the right of peaceful expression […]
  • Vietnamese Activist ‘Savagely’ Beaten by Plainclothes Officers - RFA | Jun 02, 2015 Plainclothes police officers in Vietnam “savagely” beat civil society activist Pham Thanh Nghien Tuesday after a prominent blogger and her two colleagues tried to meet with her to discuss a nationwide campaign to free the country’s political prisoners. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh—who blogs as Me Nam, meaning “Mother Mushroom”—said that […]
  • KẾT QUẢ PHIÊN TÒA SƠ THẨM VỤ GÂY RỐI TRẬT TỰ CÔNG CỘNG - LS Võ An Đôn | 02-06-2015 I- Kết quả phiên tòa: sáng ngày 02/6/2015, Tòa án huyện Vạn Ninh, tỉnh Khánh Hòa mở phiên tòa xét xử sơ thẩm vụ án “Gây rối trật tự công cộng”, xảy ra ngày 31/12/2013 trên Quốc lộ 1A, thuộc địa phận xã Vạn Long, huyện Vạn Ninh, tỉnh […]