GENERAL

  • Apr 21 – Apr 27, 2014 Defenders’ Weekly: Authorities officially questions Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience - ************Apri 22, 2014 ************ Two members of Vietnamese Women for Human Rights ( VNWHR) were detained and beaten in Can Tho City On April 22nd, 2014, two representatives of VNWHR – Ms. Tran Thi Hai and Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Lua, after attending the appellate court of two female land petitioners in Can Tho, were surrounded […]
  • Tuần tin Người BVNQ 21/4 – 27/4/2014: Chính quyền chính thức làm việc với Hội CTNLT - ************22/4/2014************ Hai thành viên Hội Phụ nữ Nhân quyền bị câu lưu và hành hung ở Cần Thơ Ngày 22/04/2014, hai đại diện của Hội phụ nữ Nhân quyền Việt Nam là bà Trần Thị Hài và Nguyễn Ngọc Lụa, sau khi tham dự phiên tòa phúc thẩm xử hai phụ nữ dân oan tại […]
  • Press Release – 15th Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights - AICHR | April 27, 2014 ASEAN Secretariat, 22-24 and 26-27 April 2014 The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened its 15th Meeting, at the ASEAN Secretariat from 22 – 24 and 26 – 27 April 2014. The meeting was chaired by H.E. U Kyaw Tint Swe, the Representative of Myanmar to AICHR and […]
  • Free the Press 2014: Stemming the Tide of Media Repression - Humanrights.gov | April 25, 2014 Journalists are being silenced around the world. In too many places, they are imprisoned, attacked, intimidated, disappeared, exiled or murdered for trying to report the news or exercise their freedom of expression. In the weeks leading up to World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the U.S. Department of State […]
  • Hanoi: 1000 police suppressed Duong Noi farmers and kidnapped Mrs. Cấn Thị Thêu - CTV Danlambao | April 25, 2014 Translated by Danlambao’s reader – In the early hours of April 25, 2014, the authorities mobilized forces up to 1000 troops to start operation of land confiscation and suppression of farmers who were trying to keep their land in Duong Noi (Ha Dong District, Hanoi). From early morning, the entire stretch […]
  • The standpoint of Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience (FVPOC) after two official sessions with the Vietnamese authorities - Author: FVPOC |April 26, 2014 *Translation by [rollinglinks]Huynh Thuc Vy[/rollinglinks] Tell the World On April 24th, 2014 the authorities invited former PoC Pham Ba Hai to question about activities relating to FVPOC. The authorities’ investigators led by Colonel Tran Hanh – Head of Political Protection Bureau, known as PA 67, of  Hochiminh city Police. His followers […]
  • Assistant Secretary Malinowski on Stemming the Tide of Media Repression - Humanrights.gov | 26/04/2014 Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Tom Malinowski U.S. Mission to the United Nations – New York, N.Y. As Prepared for Delivery Thank you to Ambassador Power, Ambassador Power summed up our purpose well: She said that we are here to affirm the right to pursue truth. The pursuit of […]
  • Vietnam: EP resolution on Vietnam Free Trade Agreement is a victory for human rights - FIDH | 18 April 2014 On 17 April 2014, the EP adopted a resolution on the state of play of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (FTA) marking an important step towards strengthening human rights protection. FIDH and its member organisation, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) advocated intensively for the inclusion of human rights safeguards in […]
  • Vietnam Bars Bloggers From Attending U.S. Congressional Briefing - RFA | 2014-04-25 Among them was Pham Chi Dung, whose passport has not been returned to him nearly three months after it was seized by Vietnamese authorities who prevented him from traveling to Geneva to attend a meeting on the margins of a U.N. Human Rights Council conference examining Vietnam’s human rights record. “The continued […]
  • Viet Nam – lift retaliatory travel restrictions on human rights defender - ICJ | April 25, 2014 Representatives Loretta Sanchez and Zoe Lofgren have invited Pham Chi Dung to testify before the US. Congress about media freedom on 29 April 2014. He’s also scheduled to speak at a seminar of non-governmental organizations in Washington D.C. on 1 May 2014 called “Towards a Free Media in Viet Nam.” However, […]