- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: URGENT ACTION FOR JAILED BLOGGER ON HUNGER STRIKE - UA: 194/13 Index: ASA 41/005/2013 Vietnam Amnesty International Date: 26 July 2013 URGENT ACTION FOR JAILED BLOGGER ON HUNGER STRIKE Imprisoned Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hai, known as Dieu Cay or “the peasant’s pipe”, has been on hunger strike since around 20 June in protest at the harsh treatment of himself and other political prisoners. […]
- What You Need to Know About Vietnam’s Human Rights Record - BY FRANK JANNUZI Amnesty International USA July 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam visited the United States this week to meet with President Obama. At lunch Wednesday with Secretary of State John Kerry, he expressed his desire that Hanoi and Washington deepen their economic and security ties.
- Urgent Announcement Over Ongoing Hunger Strike of Prisoner of Conscience Nguyen Van Hai (Alias Dieu Cay) - Ba Sàm | 25 July 2013 | Hanoi, 25 July, 2013 We, Vietnamese citizens the undersigned, who went right in Nghe An on July 22, 2013 to meet in person relatives of Prisoner of Conscience Nguyen Van Hai and work with the representatives of the Nghe An province’s Department of Procuracy and Prison No. 6 […]
- Remarks by President Obama and President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam after Bilateral Meeting - (Video with Vietnamese interpretation – Video có phần dịch Tiếng Việt) The White House | 25 July 2013 | PRESIDENT OBAMA: It is my pleasure to welcome President Truong Tan Sang to the White House and to the Oval Office for his first bilateral meeting with me. This represents the steady progression and strengthening of […]
- UBCV monk Thich Huyen Viet stages hunger strike to pray for Blogger Dieu Cay and call for freedom and democracy in Vietnam - INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST INFORMATION BUREAU Official information service of Vien Hoa Dao Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam Que Me | 24 July 2013 | Press Release of 24 July 2013 PARIS, 24 July 2013 (IBIB) Reverend Thich Huyen Viet, Buddhist monk and member of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) is staging a three-day hunger strike […]
- PEN International: Journalist and blogger Dieu Cay ill-treated; fears for safety - PEN International 24 July 2013 PEN International is gravely concerned for the health of blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay), who has been on hunger strike since 23 June 2013 in protest at his detention conditions.
- PEN Internationals joint letter to Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang calling for the immediate and unconditional release of blogger Nguyen Van Hai - PEN International 24 June 2013 His Excellency Truong Tan Sang President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Obama must urge free press during meeting with Vietnam - Committee to Protect Journalists July 24, 2013 His Excellency Barack Obama President of the United States of America White House Via facsimile: +1 202-456-2461 Dear President Obama: We are writing to express our concern about the deteriorating press and Internet freedom situation in Vietnam ahead of your Thursday meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.
- Ten international organisations appeal for immediate release of Vietnamese blogger Dieu Cay on hunger strike - IFEX | 24 July 2013 | Ten human rights organisations have written to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to raise the issue of the health and prison conditions of prominent blogger and human rights activist Mr Nguyen Van Hai (popularly known as “Dieu Cay”)
- CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR RELEASE OF 35 BLOGGERS JAILED IN VIETNAM - RSF | 24 July 2013 | Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang, who is to meet with US President Barack Obama tomorrow, heads a country that is second only to China in the number of bloggers and netizens it is currently detaining – 35. Serving long sentences of up to 13 years in prison on trumped-up charges, […]
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