Vietnam Releases on Bait Second Blogger, Still Holding Dozens Others-Feb 14, 2015 | Sao Khue (Defend the Defenders) Vietnam has released another prominent blogger on bait, the second within two days, but still holding over thirty other bloggers who exercise their right of freedom of expression enshrined in the country’s Constitution. Vietnamese-Japanese professor Hong Le Tho came home in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb […]
Vietnam Police Officer Accused of Ordering Fatal Attack on Traffic Violator-Feb 14, 2015 | Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) Police in Ho Chi Minh City are probing a local officer for allegedly ordering a brutal beating that left a man dead last year, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Lieutenant Pham Sy Hoai Nhu was accused of asking a group of men to attack Nguyen […]
3.000 công nhân nhà máy BSE ở Nghệ An đình công-RFA | 13/2/2015 Một công nhân tham gia đình công vào tối hôm qua cho Đài Á Châu Tự do biết như sau: “Ba giờ được giải lao, chúng tôi tập trung đình công trước văn phòng xếp Tổng đòi phát tiền thưởng Tết trong ngày hôm nay và đòi một số quyền lợi khác […]
Vietnam Imprisons Three Activists after Releasing on Bait Two Bloggers-Feb 13, 2015 | Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) Vietnam’s communist government has imprisoned three activists for anti-state charges after releasing two bloggers on bait to go home to spend the Lunar New Year or Tet, foreign media reported. The People’s Court of the southern province of Dong Nai on Feb 12 found Pham […]
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2015: decline on all fronts-Top of the list, as so often, are three Scandinavian countries: Finland, which has been in first place for five years in succession, followed by Norway and Denmark. At the other end of the scale, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, in last place, were the worst performers. France is ranked 38th (up one place), the […]
Báo cáo viên đặc biệt của LHQ: Việt Nam lạm dụng Điều 258 – BLHS-Trương Tự Minh, Luật Khoa | Cập nhật 12/02/2015 Quan điểm này được ông nhấn mạnh trong báo cáo gửi Hội đồng Nhân quyền Liên Hiệp Quốc ngày 30/1/2015 vừa qua. Là báo cáo viên đặc biệt về tự do tôn giáo, tín ngưỡng, ông Heiner Bielefeldt đã có chuyến làm việc tại Việt Nam […]
Vietnam Well-known Blogger Allowed to Go Home for Tet, Investigation Continues-Feb 12, 2015 | Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) Vietnam’s authorities have allowed Nguyen Quang Lap, a well-known blogger, to go home one week ahead of the Lunar New Year festival or Tet, but continued to investigate the case on which he is charged of conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 in the Penal […]
Vietnamese Anti-Graft Newspaper Fights Back-VOA| Colin Nguyen, February 10, 2015 3:38 PM The paper’s website, which has been at the forefront of an intense anti-corruption campaign, was taken offline and inaccessible Tuesday. But the print edition apparently continues even though the editor in chief has had his press card revoked and his job put in jeopardy following a government decision […]
Vietnam Targets Newspaper After Reports of Alleged Official Graft-RFA | 2015-02-10 A Vietnamese man reads online news with his laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi, Jan. 15, 2013. AFP The move has drawn criticism from journalists who suggested the government is taking revenge against the Nguoi Cao Tuoi, or The Elderly, newspaper and its editor in chief, Kim Quoc Hoa, for tackling […]
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