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  • Hanoi reduces sentences for two activists, but continues to suppress dissent - N. Hung | Asia News | August 19, 2013 The 21 year-old Catholic Nguyen Phuong Uyen will be released from jail. Sentence reduced from eight to four years for the second accused, the 26 year old Nguyen Dinh Kha. Hanoi had promised an “open” trial but at least 400 policemen guarded the building and refused […]
  • DEFENCE RIGHTS VIOLATED AT TWO BLOGGERS’ APPEAL HEARING - Reporters Sans Frontieres  FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 2013. An appeal court in the southern province of Long An today reduced blogger Dinh Nguyen Kha’s sentence from eight to four years in prison, and reduced fellow blogger Nguyen Phuong Uyen’s sentence from six years in prison to a suspended sentence of three years in prison. Both sentences still include three years of house […]
  • Vietnam frees student activist in rare appeal ruling - AFP | August 16, 2013 08:31 A Vietnamese court on Friday overturned a six-year jail term handed to a student activist, freeing her on the spot in a rare show of leniency by the authoritarian nation. The verdict which freed 21-year-old Nguyen Phuong Uyen on appeal was so unexpected — Vietnam’s courts routinely reject pleas by […]
  • Where Are You Now, Beloved Little Sister? - Translated by Chấn Minh  Người Buôn Gió (The Wind Trader) Tuesday, August 3, 2013. Could it be that she was the victim of an attempt to stop people from communicating, a few years ago, before the release of Government Decree No. CP 72* ? 
  • Nguyen Phuong Uyen’s poem “My Native Land” before her arrest - Translated by Tô’-Tâm NKTA Nguyen Phuong Uyen (About 5-6 months before her arrest) My Native Land Hasn’t wars the country forsaken? Why then her people the pain endure, are still beaten? Yet the boastful regime continues, vainglorious
  • Vietnam’s New Internet Decree - David Brown Asia Sentinel | 12.8.20113 | Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? From the flurry of alarms filling space in Western media last week, a reader could be forgiven for thinking that the Vietnamese government has finally figured out how to suppress the dissident bloggers that torment it. The furor has been prompted by […]
  • Resumption of death penalty ‘major setback’ for human rights in Viet Nam – UN - United Nations News Center 9 August 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today said that the resumption of the death penalty in Viet Nam represents a “major setback” in the country’s human rights record.
  • Vietnam caught between a rock and a hard place - David Brown YaleGlobal | August 9, 2013 1:00 am Is disappointment with China the reason behind Vietnam president’s recent hurried visit to Washington? Early in June, US State Department officials told a Congressional sub-committee that closer ties with Vietnam, in particular weapons sales, are on hold until there is “continued, demonstrable, sustained improvement in the human […]
  • REPORTER WHO INVESTIGATES CORRUPTION ARRESTED FOR “CORRUPTION” - Reporters Sans Frontières PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013. Reporters Without Borders questions award-winning investigative reporter Vo Thanh Tung’s arrest in the southern province of Dong Nai on 7 August for suspected corruption. Two people who had assisted Tung in previous investigations into highway police corruption, identified only as Tai and Minh, were arrested with him. Also known by […]
  • Vietnam anti-graft award-winning journalist arrested: Reports - Asia One AFP | 08 Aug. 2013 | HANOI – Vietnam has arrested a prize-winning investigative journalist who made his name exposing corruption in the communist country on suspicion of taking bribes, state media reported on Thursday. Vo Thanh Tung, 31, who works for Ho Chi Minh City’s Law newspaper, was detained on Wednesday after allegedly […]