Freed Vietnamese anti-government activist arrives in United States-Reuters | Tue Apr 8, 2014 French-educated lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu left Vietnam on Sunday with his wife after his release three years into a 10-year sentence of both jail and house arrest for conducting “anti-state propaganda”. “We welcome the decision by Vietnamese authorities to release prisoner of conscience Dr Cu Huy Ha Vu,” said […]
RFA Breaking News: Việt Nam trả tự do cho TS Cù Huy Hà Vũ-RFA | 7/4/2014 Thông cáo ký tên dân biểu Ed Royce, chủ tịch Ủy ban, viết rằng Việt Nam rốt cuộc đã nghe theo lời kêu gọi của quốc tế về việc giam nhốt bất hợp pháp TS. Cù Huy Hà Vũ, và trả tự do cho ông. Dân biểu Ed Royce nói ông đón […]
Mar 24-Mar 30, 2014 Defenders’ Weekly: Criminal proceedings against 6 environmental activists-From March 24th to March 30th, 2014 *********Mar 24, 2014 ********* Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh denounces jailers From An Phuoc prison (Binh Duong Province), Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh had managed to send out letter of denunciation on his being beaten and forbidden to pray in the prison. Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, head of the Evangelical […]
Tuần tin Người BVNQ 24/03-30/03/2014: Khởi tố 6 người hoạt động bảo vệ môi trường-Từ 24/3 – 30/3/2014 *************24/3/2014************** Mục sư Nguyễn Công Chính tố cáo công an trại giam Từ trong nhà tù An phước (Bình Dương), Mục sư Nguyễn Công Chính đã chuyển ra ngoài Đơn tố cáo một số công an, quán giáo trại giam đánh đập, cấm không được cầu nguyện trong buồng giam. Mục […]
Dân biểu Mỹ yêu cầu Đại sứ Shear bảo vệ chức sắc tôn giáo VN-VOA | 4/4/2014 Một nhà lập pháp Hoa Kỳ vừa gửi thư cho đại sứ David Shear tại Hà Nội yêu cầu để ý đến sự an nguy của hai chức sắc tôn giáo vừa điều trần về tình trạng đàn áp tôn giáo Việt Nam trước Ủy hội Nhân quyền Tom Lantos thuộc Quốc […]
Cancer-Stricken Vietnamese Former Political Prisoner Dies-RFA | 2014-04-04 A prominent Vietnamese former political prisoner who received a presidential amnesty two weeks ago has died of cancer, according to his family, in what an international rights group said was a tragedy that should be a “wake-up call” for the country. Dinh Dang Dinh, 50, an environmental activist and blogger who had […]
Death of activist Dinh Dang Dinh should be ‘wake-up call’ for Viet Nam-Amnesty | 4 April 2014 Amnesty International has paid tribute to Dinh Dang Dinh, the Vietnamese environmental activist, blogger and former prisoner of conscience, who has died aged 50. The activist was unjustly jailed in 2011 after starting a petition against a mining project and was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. The authorities only allowed […]
US House commission holds hearing on religious persecution in Vietnam-Catholicculture | April 04, 2014 The United States House of Representatives’ Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission has conducted a hearing on religious persecution in Vietnam. The bipartisan commission, once known as the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, has the mission of promoting human rights. Among those on the witness list at the March 26 hearing was Father […]
Religious Persecution in Vietnam: Government Spies, Forced Renunciations of Faith-By Gary feuerberg – theepochtimes | April 3, 2014 WASHINGTON—Persecution for religious belief in Vietnam is growing worse, according to witnesses that appeared at the a recent congressional hearing. For the first time in the history of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission commission, witnesses testified from Vietnam via video. All the witnesses agreed that the Vietnam regime is […]
Lawyer Slams Court Proposal of ‘Light’ Sentences for Vietnam Death in Custody Trial-RFA | 2014-04-02 Court prosecutors in Vietnam are deliberately proposing lenient sentences for the alleged killers of a man who died in police custody, according to a lawyer representing his family, in a case that has attracted public scrutiny in the Southeast Asian nation. Prosecutors have also refused to bring to trial a higher-ranking police […]
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