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  • Three international NGOs protest legal harassment of Buddhist Youth leader Le Cong Cau - 2013-03-23 | FIDH, OMCT & VCHR | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights Attn: President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Communist Party Secretary-General Nguyen Phu Trong Paris-Geneva, March 22, 2013 Re: Concerns over risks of prosecution of Buddhist Youth leader and human rights defender Le Cong Cau in Vietnam Excellencies, The Vietnam […]
  • RESPONSE TO VIETNAMESE NEWSPAPER’S CRITICISM OF 2013 NETIZEN PRIZE - FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2013 – In an article published online on 14 March, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan criticized the fact that the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to the Vietnamese citizen-journalist and blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Like his compatriots Ta Phong Tan and Nguyen Hoang Vi, Chenh was singled out for his defence of freedom of the media and information […]
  • RSF phản hồi chỉ trích của báo VN về Giải thưởng Netizen 2013 - Bản dịch của Nguyễn Thành (Defend the Defenders) Ngày 22/3/2013 – Trong một bài báo được đăng tải trên mạng ngày 14-3, nhật báo tiếng Việt, tờ Nhân Dân, đã chỉ trích giải thưởng Công dân mạng (Netizen) năm 2013 của tổ chức Phóng viên không biên giới trao cho nhà báo công dân và […]
  • US says democracy promotion key to Asia policy, criticizes Vietnam ‘backsliding’ on rights - Article by: MATTHEW PENNINGTON , Associated Press Updated: March 21, 2013 – 6:41 PM WASHINGTON – The Obama administration expressed concern Thursday about Vietnam’s “backsliding” on human rights and asserted that advancing individual freedoms is key to U.S. policy in Asia. One example cited is Hanoi’s treatment of bloggers who have faced prosecution under national […]
  • Buddhist Youth leader Le Cong Cau risks prosecution for writing articles criticizing the Communist Party in Vietnam - 2013-03-19 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 19 March 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply concerned for the security of prominent Buddhist youth leader and writer Le Cong Cau who has been threatened with prosecution by Security Police after his articles criticizing the Communist Partys policies on Buddhism and territorial […]
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN MY SITUATION? - Translated by Lê Anh Hùng (Defend the Defenders) Hai Phong, 19 March, 2013 – When I pose that question to you, I don’t mean that I expect you or any other Vietnamese to go through what I have experienced. It is simply that I expect your sympathy. I believe that life will be much interesting […]
  • Mysterious Attack on a Vietnamese Blog - Written by David Brown – MONDAY, 18 MARCH 2013 Round up the usual suspects… Twenty months ago, I was approached by a member of the team that puts out the Anh Ba Sam blog, Vietnam’s leading source of “alternative news.” Would I mind, they asked, if they posted a Vietnamese translation of a story that […]
  • CUỘC TẤN CÔNG BÍ ẨN NHẰM VÀO MỘT BLOG VN - Bản dịch của Nguyễn Thành (Defend the Defenders) Tác giả: David Brown – cựu nhân viên ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ với nhiều kinh nghiệm về VN. Thứ hai, 18/3/2013 – Khoanh vùng các nghi phạm thông thường… Hai mươi tháng trước, một thành viên của nhóm khởi xướng blog Anh Ba Sàm– nguồn tin “ngoài luồng” […]
  • RSF: Việt Nam 5 năm liên tiếp là Kẻ thù của Internet -
  • Human Rights Organizations Call on the UN to Aid Detained Vietnamese Blogger Le Quoc Quan - MARCH 15, 2013 | BY EVA GALPERIN – the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – On 27 December 2012 prominent Vietnamese activist and blogger Le Quoc Quan was arbitrarily arrested and detained by local authorities while taking his daughter to school. The arrest was the culmination of years of constant surveillance and harassment over his extensive writing on […]