Message from the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam on lawyer Le Quoc Quan’s appeal trial-Feb 18, 2014 – The European Union Delegation to Vietnam expresses its concern over today’s rejection, by Hanoi’s Supreme People’s Court, of blogger and lawyer Le Quoc Quan’s appeal against his earlier sentence to 30 months in prison and monetary penalties on tax evasion charges. In August 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council Working […]
AFTER COURT REJECTS APPEAL, RWB PLEDGES TO MAKE BLOGGER’S VOICE HEARD-RSF | PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2014. As Vietnam’s Communist Party regime continues to say nothing in response to its critics, a Hanoi appeal court today confirmed dissident lawyer and blogger Le Quoc Quan’s 30-month jail sentence and fine of 40,000 euros on a trumped-up charge of tax fraud. Reporters Without Borders is outraged by […]
Vietnamese Court Rejects Appeals by Dissident-HANOI, Vietnam February 18, 2014 (AP) | ABC News A Vietnamese appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 30-month prison sentence against a U.S.-trained lawyer and well-known dissident found guilty of tax evasion in a case that international rights groups say was politically motivated. The court in Hanoi rejected Le Quoc Quan’s appeal after […]
Hội CTNLT: Y ÁN ĐỐI VỚI LS LÊ QUỐC QUÂN, CHÍNH QUYỀN ĐÃ LEO THANG VI PHẠM NHÂN QUYỀN-Ngày 18/2/2014 | Ban thông tin Hội CTNLT Nhà nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt nam vừa mới ký vào Công ước Liên hiệp quốc về Chống tra tấn và cũng đã trở thành hội viên Hội đồng Nhân quyền Liên hiệp quốc, nhưng chữ ký của Nhà nước Việt nam chưa ráo mực […]
Thousands of Vietnamese, Christian and non, march for the release of Catholic lawyer-By TT, The Redemptorists in Hanoi and Saigon organize a candlelight vigil and pray for the release of Le Quoc Quan . Tomorrow the appeal process begins, concern over his state of health, physically weakened by two weeks of hunger strike. Hospitals in the capital refuse medical treatment to a Hmong Christian leader. Hanoi (AsiaNews […]
Vietnam Letter to Appeal Judge for Le Quoc Quan-17 Feb 14 – L4L, together with a broad coalition of organizations, has sent a letter to the Supreme Court of Vietnam to express their support for the appeal of Mr. Le Quoc Quan against his recent conviction on charges of alleged tax evasion. In the letter, the organizations highlighted four important legal issues in support of Mr […]
LETTER OF GRATITUDE from Teacher Dinh Dang Dinh’s family-To: • Benefactors in Vietnam and abroad . • Embassies in Hanoi and international NGOs on human rights. Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m Dang Thi Dinh, the wife of prisoner of conscience Dinh Dang Dinh. My husband currently suffers from terminal stomach cancer which has metastasised to his lymph nodes, being treated in room 101, Department […]
RWB AGAIN TRIES TO HAND PETITION TO VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL-PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2014. The blogger Bui Thi Minh Hang is still in prison, as is the human rights lawyer and blogger Le Quoc Quan, whose appeal will be heard on 18 February, but the Vietnamese government remains completely indifferent to their fate as it continues to celebrate France-Vietnam Year. Reporters Without Borders tried unsuccessfully to […]
VIETNAM SET TO GET EVEN STANKER HUMAN RIGHTS RANKING THIS YEAR-BY DAN HARKINS, FEBRUARY 13, 2014 | Segment Human Rights Watch announced Thursday that Vietnam was still bullying any and all opposition to its authoritarian, one-party communist rule. According to Brad Adams, the Asia Director for the non-profit group, uniformed and plainclothes agents cut the Internet to and rifled through a home in the Dong Thap region, […]
VIETNAM: Release terminally ill human rights defender-On 14 Feb, 2014 | FIDH Paris-Geneva, February 14, 2014. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), express deep concern over the health of human rights […]
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