New Asia-Pacific Collective Defense Needed-Written by Khanh Vu Duc and Duvien Tran ASIA SENTINEL | FRI, 30 MAY 2014 Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore provides a chance to tackle the threat of regional instability All of this comes after almost a month of tension between China and Vietnam when the former relocated one of its oil rigs inside Vietnam’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone. […]
Vietnam CSOs protest using violence against peaceful Human Rights activists-by CSOs Tell the World Hanoi, May 30, 2014. Dear Governments and International Human Rights Organizations. We, the civil society organizations and human rights defenders in Vietnam, jointly express our concerns about the violence that has happened to peaceful human rights activists lately. • On March 21, 2014 Trinh Anh Tuan was surveilled by three […]
Vietnam’s Religious Leaders Highlight Harassment of Pastor in Prison-RFA | May 31, 2014 In a letter Thursday to Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang and Public Security Minister Tran Dai Quang, the 14 churchmen called especially for a halt to the ill treatment in jail of pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, who earlier this month was forced to stand before fellow prisoners to be verbally […]
Vietnamese Dissidents Who Backed Anti-China Protests Harassed in Prison-RFA | May 29, 2014 Citizen journalist Ta Phong Tan, a former policewoman who has received international awards for her work, is facing abuse from her fellow inmates, while fellow dissident Ngo Hao is suffering from ill treatment to the point that he is threatening suicide, their relatives said. Both were jailed after campaigning online […]
Writing in tears, a letter from the wife of prisoner of conscience Ngo Hao-Danlambao | May 29, 2014 Respectfully presented to International human rights organizations and the peace-loving Governments. I am Nguyen Thi Kim Lan, wife of the prisoner of conscience Ngo Hao who is currently imprisoned in Xuan Phuoc prison, Dong Xuan district, Phu Yen province. My husband was arrested on February 8, 2013, and sentenced to […]
Press releases: Torture pervasive across Asia-Pacific- Amnesty International | May 13, 2014 Amnesty International has reported on torture or other ill-treatment in 141 countries over the past five years New global survey of more than 21,000 people in 21 countries across every continent reveals fear of torture exists in all these countries Nearly half of respondents fear torture if taken […]
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