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  • Pressure Mounting on Vietnam to Improve Human Rights - By Shar Adams, Epoch Times | May 20, 2013 WASHNGTON—In 1994, President Bill Clinton declared May 11 Vietnam Human Rights Day in the hope it would ease political, civil, and religious repression in Vietnam. Nearly two decades later, the rights picture remains grim, however, motivating members of the United States Congress and human rights groups […]
  • “DECISION 20” SILENCES 16 FOREIGN TV CHANNELS - PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY 21 MAY 2013. Reporters Without Borders is shocked by a government decree, called Decision 20/2011/QD-TTG, which has prevented local retransmission of four categories of foreign TV channels since 15 May by requiring them to pay for simultaneous translation of all their programming into Vietnamese.
  • Declaration by the Free Citizens: Nguyen Phuong Uyen, Dinh Nguyen Kha are innocent and patriotic - May 17, 2013 We the undersigned Free Citizens, in light of the wrongful sentences of 6 and 8 years of imprisonment and 6 years of house arrest imposed upon the two patriotic students, Nguyen Phuong Uyen and Dinh Nguyen Kha, declare that:
  • Vietnam: 2 jeunes militants condamnés -  Le Figaro.fr avec AFP Mis à jour le 17/05/2013 Les Etats-Unis ont exigé aujourd’hui la libération immédiate de deux jeunes militants condamnés la veille à des peines de prison ferme pour propagande contre l’Etat, dénonçant la “tendance inquiétante” à la répression du régime communiste. Nguyen Phuong Uyen, étudiante de 21 ans environ, et Dinh Nguyen Kha, […]
  • Embassy Statement on Dinh Nguyen Kha and Nguyen Phuong Uyen - Hanoi, 17 May 2013 We are concerned by a Vietnamese court’s sentencing of Dinh Nguyen Kha to eight years in prison and Nguyen Phuong Uyen to six years in prison on subversion charges. These convictions are part of a disturbing trend of Vietnamese authorities using charges under national security laws to imprison government critics for […]
  • Smith’s Human Rights Bills on Intl Child Abduction, Vietnam Pass Subcommittee - Washington, May 15 – Legislation on parental abduction of U.S. children overseas, human rights issues in Vietnam and the crisis in the Congo was passed at the first bill mark-up of the 113th Congress by the House panel that oversees human rights chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04).
  • Vietnam Jails Two Over Leaflets - RFA 16.5.2013 – A court in southern Vietnam on Thursday sentenced two young activists to several years in prison for distributing “anti-government” leaflets, in a trial relatives and rights groups condemned as unfair and aimed at silencing dissent in the one-party state.
  • HRW: Vietnam Should Drop Charges for Leafleting - Activists Targeted for Criticizing Government Relations with China Human Rights Watch 15 May 2013 (New York) – Vietnam should drop charges and free two activists arrested in October 2012 for “conducting propaganda against the state. Nguyen Phuong Uyen and Dinh Nguyen Kha are scheduled to be tried in the People’s Court of Long An province on Thursday, […]
  • NETIZEN PRIZE WINNER PREVENTED FROM TAKING INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT - PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 13 MAY 2013. Reporters Without Borders condemns the Vietnamese public security ministry’s decision to prevent the well-known blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh from travelling abroad. Winner of the 2013 Netizen Prize, which Reporters Without Borders awards annually with support from Google, Chenh and his daughter were stopped at Ho Chi Minh City airport as they were about […]
  • HRW: Stop Blocking ‘Human Rights Picnics’ - Activists Harassed and Assaulted for Discussing Rights Human Rights Watch 10.5.2013 The Vietnamese authorities should stop impeding and abusing people trying to hold “human rights picnics” in public spaces. Despite government abuse and bullying, some people did succeed in holding informal gatherings and discussed the day’s events online.