Hanoi consults bishops on a new law on faiths that violates religious freedom-Asia News | May 04, 2015 Hanoi (AsiaNews) – The Vietnamese government’s draft laws on “faith and religion” are in violation of “the right to freedom of religion”, go against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, show that the purpose of government is “to profoundly interfere […]
Before meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, Obama holds talk with Dieu Cay-Dân Làm Báo | May 02, 2015 US President Barack Obama has held a talk with blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka. Dieu Cay), who used to be considered “anti-state” and sentenced to almost 15 years of imprisonment by the communist government of Vietnam. The meeting is particularly significant when it takes place before Nguyen Phu […]
Interview: ‘This is The Right Time For Activists and Journalists in Vietnam’-RFA | May 01, 2015 Six months after being deported to the United States following his release from a prison in Vietnam, dissident blogger Nguyen Van Hai, also known by his pen name Dieu Cay, spoke to RFA’s Vietnamese Service about meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama about global press freedom. Hai, whose online articles […]
Cambodia: Register, Not Return, Vietnamese Asylum Seekers-HRW | May 01, 2015 (Phnom Penh) – Cambodia’s refusal to allow asylum seekers from Vietnam to register and seek refugee status demonstrates a dismal failing to abide by international refugee law, LICADHO and Human Rights Watch said today. In the last four months, Cambodia has forcibly deported 54 Vietnamese asylum seekers, and appears poised […]
Tự do tôn giáo của Việt Nam năm 2014: USCIRF- Báo cáo thường niên 2015 của Uỷ ban Tự do Tôn giáo Quốc tế của Hoa Kỳ Nguồn: USCIRF (April 30, 2015) Bản dịch của Vũ Quốc Ngữ Tự do tôn giáo của Việt Nam năm 2014 Những phát hiện chính Chính phủ Việt Nam tiếp tục kiểm soát tất cả các hoạt động tôn […]
POLICE HARASS INFORMATION HERO ON VIETNAM WAR ANNIVERSARY-RSF | Apr 30, 2015 Reporters Without Borders urges the police to stop harassing the independent journalist Pham Chi Dung and his family, whose Ho Chi Minh City home was surrounded today by police officers. The authorities have gone out of their way to gag independent journalists and bloggers today, which the Communist Party is […]
Vietnam – US story: Former enemies and now partners-Vietnamnet | Apr 29, 2015 Rapid improvement in bilateral economic and security relations between Vietnam and the US has been fostered by a convergence of their strategic interests. US-Vietnam relations have come a long way over the past few decades. In the 1980s of the last century, Vietnam once feared the US was “a factor […]
Vietnamese Women for Human Rights’ Statement regarding the suppression of the march on April 26th, 2015-VNWHR | Apr 26, 2015 To Whom This May Concern, Recently Hanoi authorities ordered the felling of 6,700 valuable mature trees to be replaced with saplings with much less value. The public opinion is that Hanoi government did so because they wanted to share the spoils from the tree felling operation, as they could no […]
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