Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Jan 19-25: Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang Severely Beaten by Security Agents-Defenders’ Weekly | Jan 25, 2015 ************19/1/2015********** Dak Lak Parish: Authorities Strive to Demolish Temporary Praying Facility of Local Catholic Followers Authorities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have strived to demolish the temporary praying facilities of Catholic followers of Dak Lak parish, said Priest Hoang Duc Oanh, head of the Kon Tum […]
RECLAIMING THE ASEAN COMMUNITY FOR THE PEOPLE – CSO STATEMENT-Aseanpeople | Jan 24, 2015 1. PREAMBLE 1.1 This ASEAN Civil Society Conference and ASEAN People’s Forum marks the 10th anniversary since the first regional gathering of civil society in Malaysia. We, the civil society in Southeast Asia[1], welcome the commitment of ASEAN in the years since to establish a people-centric ASEAN and a peaceful, […]
Vietnam Reviews 102 Criminal Cases, Finding 13 Judicial Miscarriages in 2014-By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 22, 2015 The Vietnamese Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuracy and Ministry of Public Security jointly reviewed 102 life sentences and death sentences in 2014 and found 13 cases of miscarriage of justice, state media reported. They found legal procedure violations in three other cases, the Phap Luat & […]
Vietnam Continues to Suppress Activists, Showing No Progress in Human Rights- By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 22, 2015 Vietnam has showed no progress in human rights protection as local authorities continue to hire mobs to attack religious clerks and social activists, said Hanoi-based observers. Last Sunday afternoon, Mennonite Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang and his assistant were beaten by unknown assailants near Ho Chi Minh […]
Vietnamese Activists Allege Police Brutality After Visiting Dissident-VOA | Jan 21, 2015 Thirteen Vietnamese social activists say they were attacked by police and taken into custody after visiting recently freed dissident Tran Anh Kim. One activist, 80-year-old Nguyen Thanh Giang, tells VOA’s Vietnamese service the incident in northern Thai Binh province highlights an alarming trend of police brutality. “The reason of the […]
Vietnamese Pastor Brutally Beaten, Hospitalized-CBN | Jan 21, 2015 Urgent prayer is needed for Vietnamese Mennonite Pastor Quang. He and an associate pastor were brutally beaten last Sunday afternoon by unknown assailants near their Bible college in Ho Chi Minh City. According to VOM Australia, both pastors were attacked “without provocation” by five men who used “bricks and rocks […]
Thư Kêu gọi đồng hành lên án vi phạm nhân quyền 2014 tại VN-FVPOC | Cập nhật 21/01/2015 Kính gửi: Quý Tổ chức xã hội dân sự trong và ngoài nước Kính thưa Quí Vị! Sau khi giành được ghế trong Hội đồng Nhân quyền Liên Hiệp Quốc nhà cầm quyền Hà Nội vẫn tiếp tục vi phạm […]
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