Vietnam jails noodle vendor who mocked minister’s lavish dining-A noodle vendor in Vietnam famous for imitating celebrity chef “Salt Bae” to allegedly mock a top government official was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Thursday, police said, after a court found him guilty of anti-state propaganda. The conviction is the latest in what rights groups say is the government’s wide-ranging attempt to silence […]
Noodle vendor who parodied Salt Bae jailed in Vietnam for ‘anti-state propaganda’-A Vietnam court has jailed a noodle seller who went viral for impersonating celebrity chef Salt Bae, after the restaurateur served a gold-leaf steak to a powerful official, his lawyer said. In 2021, Peter Lam Bui posted a parody video impersonating Salt Bae – Nusret Gökçe, a Turkish chef who parlayed his meme stardom into high-end eateries […]
Salt Bae parody: Vietnam noodle vendor jailed for five years-A noodle vendor in Vietnam who parodied one of the country’s most powerful ministers has been jailed for five-and-a half years for anti-state propaganda. Bui Tuan Lam became famous when he posted a video in 2021 mimicking the trademark gestures of the high-end London-based restaurateur Salt Bae. A minister had been previously filmed eating a […]
Vietnamese activist known as ‘Onion Bae’ sentenced to 5 ½ years in prison-A court in the central Vietnamese city of Danang sentenced activist Bui Tuan Lam – known as “Onion Bae” – to five years and six months in prison Thursday, along with four years of probation, one of his lawyers Le Dinh Viet told RFA. He was convicted of propaganda under Article 117 of the country’s […]
Cựu TNLT Phạm Thanh Nghiên: Không có chỗ tá túc lâu dài ở Việt Nam-Cựu tù nhân chính trị Phạm Thanh Nghiên cùng chồng cũng là cựu tù chính trị Huỳnh Anh Tú và con gái vào ngày 12/4 lên trường sang Hoa Kỳ. Sau hơn một tháng định cư tại nước Mỹ, bà xác nhận lại với RFA tình trạng của gia đình khi còn ở Việt Nam […]
Luật sư nói cáo buộc đối với giảng viên Đặng Đăng Phước không đủ căn cứ-Toà án Nhân dân tỉnh Đắk Lắk có lịch đưa giảng viên âm nhạc Đặng Đăng Phước ra xét xử vào ngày 06/6 với cáo buộc “Tuyên truyền chống nhà nước” theo Điều 117 của Bộ luật Hình sự 2015. Luật sư nói cáo trạng đối với nhà hoạt động nhân quyền này không thuyết phục. […]
UN working group faults Vietnam for arbitrary detention of climate activist-A U.N. working group of independent human rights experts has called on Vietnam to immediately release a detained climate activist serving a five-year prison term for tax evasion, saying he had been arrested arbitrarily and tried unfairly. Lawyer and environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach, 44, who had campaigned to reduce Vietnam’s reliance on coal was arrested […]
Rights groups call on UN refugee chief to push Vietnam to free two detained bloggers-More than 20 human rights organizations have urged the United Nations to pressure Vietnam to release bloggers Duong Van Thai and Truong Duy Nhat and to take action to protect Vietnamese asylum seekers in Thailand from being forcibly returned to authorities in their home country. In a letter dated May 18, the groups urged U.N. High Commissioner […]
Vietnam: Activist Charged With “Propaganda”-Human Rights Watch, Press release Bangkok, May 24, 2024 – A Vietnamese rights activist, Bui Tuan Lam, is scheduled to go on trial on May 25, 2023, on charges of propaganda against the state for his online criticism of the government. If the court convicts him at his trial on May 25, 2023, he faces up to […]
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