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  • ANOTHER BLOGGER HELD, RWB CALLS FOR HIS IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RSF | Jan 1, 2015 Better known by the blog name of Nguyen Ngoc Gia, he was arrested at his Ho Chi Minh City home, which was searched by police. The public security ministry said the 48-year-old Ngoc was detained for “illegal activities.” No further details are so far available. Ngoc often writes for independent […]
  • One More Death in Police Station after Vietnam Ratifies Anti-Torture Convention - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Dec 31, 2014 One more death in police station was reported one month after Vietnam’s National Assembly ratified the UN Convention against Torture. According to Vietnam’s state media, Tran Van Tung, a suspect of stealing telephone cable in Hoa Khuong commune in Hoa Vang district in Quang Nam province, was […]
  • Vietnam Arrests Third Blogger, Intensifying Crackdown ahead of Party Plenum - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Dec 30, 2014 Vietnam has arrested the third blogger within one month, showing the government iron hand against online bloggers ahead of  the communist party’s plenum which is scheduled in January next year. Blogger Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, 48, was arrested on Dec 27 at his house in Ho Chi Minh […]
  • Rights Group, Dissidents Slam Arrest of Vietnamese Blogger - RFA | Dec 29, 2014 An international human rights group on Monday slammed the arrest of a prominent blogger in Vietnam over the weekend, as other dissidents decried a growing crackdown on online freedom of expression by authorities in the one-party communist nation. Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, known by his pen name Nguyen Ngoc Gia, was […]
  • Một thách thức cho người đấu tranh - Mặc Lâm, RFA | 29/12/0214 Viết và bày tỏ chính kiến của mình trước các vấn đề chính trị là một nhu cầu của trí thức. Không được đăng bài viết của mình trên báo chính thống thì mở trang blog cá nhân ngay cả trên Facebook. Tuy nhiên trang blog tại Việt Nam hoàn […]
  • Hãy đừng quên những tù nhân chính trị - Phương Thảo (Hà Lan) dịch IJAVN | 29/12/2014 Những con số đó làm người ta chết lặng. Một tiếng nói đơn lẻ cũng cho thấy được sự quả cảm và hi sinh của từng người trong số họ như Khadija Ismayilova. Năm năm trước đây vào ngày 25 tháng 12 năm 2009, Lưu Hiểu Ba, nhân vật bất đồng […]
  • A Sermon Delivered by Father Nguyễn Văn Toản On the First Sunday of Advent - Translate by Chấn Minh |  Dec 01, 2014 Reading of the Gospel according to Mark (13: 33-37) {13:33} Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. {13:34} [For the Son of man is] as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Dec 22-28, 2014: Family of Death-sentenced Nguyen Van Chuong Protests Unfair Sentence ahead of Planned Execution - Defenders’ Weekly | Dec 28,2014 **********22/12/2014******** Parents of death-sentenced Nguyen Van Chuong Calls for Execution Suspension Parents of Nguyen Van Chuong, who was sentenced to death for accusation of murdering a Haiphong city-based police officer seven years ago, have petitioned in the Hanoi capital city’s center to call for suspension of his execution which is […]
  • Tuần tin người bảo vệ nhân quyền 22/12- 28/12/2014: Gia đình tử tù Nguyễn Văn Chưởng tọa kháng phản đối bản án - Defenders’ Weekly | 28-12-2014 **********22/12/2014******** Cha mẹ tử tù Nguyễn Văn Chưởng: Xin đừng giết, con tôi bị oan  Ông Nguyễn Hữu Vinh đã đưa ra hàng loạt vụ án oan sai trong đó có anh Nguyễn Văn Chưởng bị kiếp vào tội giết người và đang chờ ngày tử hình. Cha mẹ tử tội […]
  • Vietnamese Police Arrest Prominent Blogger - RFA | Dec 28, 2014 Authorities in Vietnam have arrested a prominent blogger who had recently published articles critical of the government, in the latest crackdown on online dissent in the one party communist nation. Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, 48, also known by his pen name Nguyen Ngoc Gia, was arrested at his home in the […]