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  • U.S. Relations With Vietnam - BUREAU OF EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS Fact Sheet February 14, 2014 More information about Vietnam is available on the Vietnam Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet. U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS The United States established diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1950, following its limited independence within […]
  • Viet Nam : Le Quoc Quan writes from prison - On 14 Feb 2014, English PEN Blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has been detained since December 2012 and is currently on hunger strike. Ahead of his appeal hearing next week, he has written to supporters across the globe, thanking them for their ongoing support My dear compatriots at home and abroad, While […]
  • Human Rights Watch: Việt Nam phải dừng ngay việc đàn áp các nhà đấu tranh nhân quyền - Bản dịch của [rollinglinks]Vũ Quốc Ngữ[/rollinglinks] (DTD) Ngày 13/2/2014, HRW Hành động của cảnh sát Việt Nam đối với Nguyễn Bắc Truyền là một phần của việc vi phạm nhân quyền một cách thường xuyên. Nó dường như là một hành động đáng xấu hổ nhằm vào các nhà đấu tranh nhân quyền. Các nhà viện trợ […]
  • An Appeal for Help from the Family of Huynh Thuc Vy - Dear friends, Last night (February 11, 2014), four members of the Public Security Forces pretending to be thugs initiated a rock throwing attack on my father’s home in Tam Ky, Quang Nam Province. What transpired was as follows. At 7:35 PM, four young men on two motorcycles stopped in front of my father’s house at […]
  • Dinh Dang Dinh, Jailed Vietnamese Dissident’s Life Can Be ‘Counted in Days and Hours’ - Added by Pierre on February 13, 2014 | Small Journal The wife of a jailed dissident blogger undergoing treatment in hospital for cancer says his life can now be “counted in days and hours,” calling for renewed pressure on the Vietnamese government to release him so that he can die among friends and family. Dinh Dang Dinh, […]
  • Vietnam: Stop Harassment of Rights Defenders - Police Action Against Nguyen Bac Truyen Part of Sustained Pattern of Abuse FEBRUARY 13, 2014 | HRW (New York) – On the eve of his marriage, Vietnamese police temporarily detained lawyer and former political prisoner Nguyen Bac Truyen, Human Rights Watch said today. The police also briefly detained his fiancée, Bui Thi Kim Phuong, and […]
  • Vietnamese Lawyer and Blogger Le Quoc Quan on Hunger Strike -   ARTICLE 19, 13 Feb 2014 Jailed Vietnamese blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has launched a hunger strike to protest the refusal by prison authorities to provide him access to legal counsel, access to legal and religious books, and access to a priest for spiritual guidance, ahead of his appeal trial on 18 […]
  • Open letter: The EU-Vietnam Free trade Agreement and the vote in the European Parliament this 13th of February - FIDH – Last Update 12 February 2014 Brussels, 12 February 2014 Dear Members of the European Parliament, INTA commission, In the context of the current negotiation regarding an EU-Vietnam Free trade agreement, FIDH wishes to insist on the necessity to take the human rights situation in Vietnam into account. The concerns regarding freedom of expression, […]
  • Writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan is stoned by plain-clothed police - At 7:30 PM, Feb 11, 2014 writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan’s house was stoned in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province. He was hearing the sound of motorbikes coming and then the rumble of stones, bricks over his roof. Luckily they missed him seating nearby. When he opened the door, motorbikes ran away. Neighbors said that […]
  • RSF World press freedom index 2014: Asia-Pacific - CHINESE BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING, AND EXPORTING ITS METHODS In a speech shortly after his appointment as Communist Party general secretary in November 2012, Xi Jinping addressed journalists directly: “Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will […]