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  • Harmonious encounter: U.S.-Vietnam differences likely to be downplayed in presidential visit - Simon Roughneen The Edge Review 19 July 2013 When Vietnam hosted the East Asia Summit in 2010, the keynote press conference was a joint appearance by then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem. In a small side room of the cavernous Hanoi National Convention Centre,
  • USCIRF Urges President Obama to Raise Concerns About Religious Freedom in Vietnam - July 22, 2013 | Press Release by USCIRF  WASHINGTON, D.C. — USCIRF urges President Obama to raise concerns about religious freedom violations in Vietnam when he meets at the White House with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on July 25. Raising these concerns as the U.S.-Vietnamese bilateral relationship is improving will underscore America’s support for […]
  • Freedom of Expression Online threatened by new Internet Decree in Vietnam - VCHR | 23 July 2013 | Press Release by VCHR on 23 July 2013 regarding Decree 72/2013-ND-CP PARIS, 23 July 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is gravely concerned by the adoption of the “Decree on Management, Provision, Use of Internet Services and Information Content Online” (Decree 72/2013-ND-CP) which imposes new restrictions on […]
  • 19 NGOs’ letter to U.S. President Barack Obama: Please ask the Vietnamese President to free Le Quoc Quan - Southeast Asian Press Alliance 23 July 2013 Nineteen human rights organizations have written to U.S. President Barack Obama to raise the issue of the detention of human rights defender and blogger Mr Le Quoc Quan to when President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam meets Obama on 25 July. The President of the United States The […]
  • APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FOR BLOGGER ON HUNGER STRIKE WHO COULD DIE - Reporters Sans Frontieres PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY 23 JULY 2013. Nguyen Van Hai, a blogger known by the pen-name of Dieu Cay who has been jailed since April 2008, has been on hunger strike for the past 31 days in protest against his prison conditions in the central province of Nghe An. His current state of health is grave […]
  • Decree targets online freedoms in Vietnam - Committee to Protect Journalists Bangkok | July 22, 2013 | – A new decree aimed at regulating Internet-related information and services in Vietnam represents a significant new danger to online journalists and bloggers, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The decree was signed into law on July 15 and will be implemented on September […]
  • DECLARATION OF VIETNAMESE MASS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE US - Vietnamese Mass Organisations in the U.S. 22 Jule 2013 On the occasion of the meeting between US President Barack Obama and SRV President Truong Tan Sang in the White House, we, the undersigned Vietnamese mass organizations, issue to the public this declaration.
  • Vietnam: President’s Visit to Washington Puts Rights in Spotlight - Human Rights Watch 22 July 2013 Obama Needs to Address Worsening Crackdown on Dissidents (Washington, DC) – Vietnam’s intensifying crackdown on free expression should be a top agenda item during Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang’s summit with President Barack Obama this week, Human Rights Watch said today. Sang will be in the United States from July 24 to […]
  • Vietnamese dissident said weak from hunger strike - CHRIS BRUMMITT The Huffington Post | 22 July 2013 HANOI, Vietnam — One of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents is on the 30th day of a hunger strike in protest against being held under solitary confinement, family members said Monday, casting fresh attention on Vietnam’s human rights record ahead of trip by the country’s president this week to […]
  • Vietnam blogger ‘weak’ from hunger strike - The Australian 22 July 2013 A WELL-KNOWN Vietnamese blogger, jailed for 12 years for anti-state propaganda, is “very weak” after a month-long hunger strike protesting at his treatment in prison, his family says. Nguyen Van Hai – a founding member of the banned Free Journalists Club who is better known by his alias Dieu Cay […]