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  • Social Activist Beaten as US Rights Envoy Visits Vietnam - VOA | May 12, 2015 A Vietnamese dissident known for leading anti-Chinese and environmental protests says he was attacked by a group of unidentified men allegedly linked to the authorities. Anh Chi told VOA’s Vietnamese Service he was hit Monday with a metal pipe without provocation near his home in Hanoi. Photos of his bloodied […]
  • Vietnam Legislators Propose No Referenda for Sensitive Issues - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 13, 2015 Some Vietnamese legislators have proposed that no referenda would be held for sensitive issues in the draft law on referendum which is being discussed by the Standing Committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA), state media reported. Speaking at the 38th session of the committee, Ksor Phuoc, chairman […]
  • U.S. Ambassador, HRW Urged to Probe Brutal Attack against Vietnamese Activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 13, 2015 Vietnam-origin Senator Janet Nguyen from California has called on U.S. Ambassador Ted Osius to Vietnam and the New York-based Human Rights Watch to conduct an investigation into a brutal attack against Hanoi-based activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen. Mr. Tuyen, a famous political dissident and human rights activist in […]
  • Vietnam Police Officers Charged for Torturing Suspects during Murder Case - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 13, 2015 Vietnam’s Supreme People’s Procuracy has criminally prosecuted two police officers in the southern province of Soc Trang who allegedly tortured and forced innocent men to accept their responsibility in a murder case. Nguyen Hoang Quan, 38, and Trieu Tuan Hung, 34, chief investigators were charged with using […]
  • Vietnam Policeman Disciplined after Firing Rubber Bullets at Traffic Violator - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 13, 2015 Police in Vietnam’s central city of Thanh Hoa have disciplined a local police officer who fired rubber bullets at a traffic violator, state media reported. According to the decision of Colonel Le Van Nghiem, head of the city’s police department, Lieutenant Hoang Manh Trung was warned and […]
  • Vietnam Former Newspaper Editor Prosecuted for Official Graft Reports - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 13, 2015 Vietnam’s police have decided to prosecute Mr. Kinh Quoc Hoa, former editor-in-chief of outspoken Nguoi Cao Tuoi (The Elderly) newspaper which ran a number of articles unveiling alleged corruption of many senior officials, state media reported. According to the announcement of the Ministry of Public Security, Mr. […]
  • Thơ gởi chủ tịch nước trả tự do cho LM Nguyễn Văn Lý - RFA | Cập nhật 12/05/2015 Nhân dịp chủ tịch nước Trương Tấn Sang đến thăm Cộng hoà Séc, nhóm Văn Lang, một tổ chức gồm những người Việt yêu nước ở đó gửi đi một thỉnh nguyện thư với hằng trăm chữ ký thu thập được yêu cầu trả tự do cho Linh mục Nguyễn […]
  • Tổng biên tập Người Cao Tuổi bị khởi tố - BBC | Cập nhật 12/05/2015 Ông Kim Quốc Hoa, cựu Tổng biên tập báo Người Cao Tuổi, tờ báo nổi tiếng với các bài báo chống tham nhũng, vừa bị khởi tố theo điều 258 Bộ Luật Hình sự, Bộ Công an Việt Nam thông báo. Thông báo ra ngày 12/05/2015 nói Bộ Công an […]
  • U.S. Senator Asks Ambassador Osius, Human Rights Watch to Investigate Brutal Attack against Vietnamese Activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 12, 2015 Vietnam-origin Senator Janet Nguyen has called on U.S. Ambassador Ted Osius to Vietnam and the New York-based Human Rights Watch to conduct an investigation on the brutal attack against Hanoi-based activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen. Mr. Tuyen, a famous political dissident and human rights activist in Hanoi, was […]
  • Prisoner of Conscience Freed From Vietnamese Jail - RFA | May 11, 2015 Vietnamese authorities have terminated the jail term of prisoner of conscience who was arrested in November 2011 for helping other injustice petitioners and sentenced for ‘propagating against the state” in the one-party communist country. Pham Thi Loc, was serving a 42-month sentence at the number 5 prison in Yen Dinh district […]