GENERAL

  • Civil society rejects flawed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration - Thursday, 15 November 2012, Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Today, 65 grassroots, national, regional, and international civil society groups are calling upon ASEAN Member States to postpone the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, which is not worthy of its name. The organizations vow to reject the Declaration if it is adopted with its current text. […]
  • ASEAN Human Rights Declaration must not provide protections lower than international human rights law and standards - Thursday, 13 September 2012 – We, the undersigned organizations, who participated at the Civil Society Forum on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, held on 10-11 September 2012 and the consultation meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) with civil society organizations on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD), held on 12 September 2012 […]
  • Free Nguyen Phuong Uyen Now! - Petition by DienDan ChinhTri San Diego, CA 25 October, 2012 Navanethem Pillay Office of the United Nations, High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOG-OHCHR 1211 Geneva 10, SWITZERLAND Dear Mrs. Pillay, Re: Appeal for the immediate release of Ms. Nguyen Phuong Uyen whom been detained the last 2 weeks and all other political detainee under Vietnamese government’s laws, the infamous […]
  • 2012 Vietnam Human Rights Award Goes to Three Women Human Rights Activists - Little Saigon (11-02-2012)  – At a press conference in Little Saigon today, Vietnam Human Rights Network (VHRN) announced that Ms. Pham Thanh Nghien, Blogger Ta Phong Tan, and Ms. Huynh Thuc Vy are the winners of the Human Rights Award for 2012.  They were selected from a list of 24 nominations received from Vietnam and abroad. 
  • UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention pronounced detention of Vietnamese pro-democracy activists a violation of international law - PARIS, 8 November 2012 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention informed the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights by fax today that it considers the detention of four pro-democracy activists, Le Cong Dinh, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Nguyen Tien Trung and Le Thang Long to be a violation of international law. The UN Working Group calls on Vietnam to […]
  • VIETNAM: Two songwriters convicted for ‘anti-state propaganda’ - RAN 70/12 – 31 October 2012 – The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International is appalled by the sentences handed down to songwriters Vo Minh Tri and Tran Vu Anh Binh who were sentenced to four and six yeas in prison respectively, for conducting ‘anti-state propaganda’ via their critical songs posted on the internet. PEN […]
  • Imprisonment of musicians a new low for freedom of expression - Paris-Bangkok, 2 November 2012. The trial and harsh sentencing of two musicians on charges of “anti-State propaganda” under Article 88 of the Penal Code is the latest example of Vietnam’s escalating assault on freedom of expression and its blatant violation of international human rights law, said the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its […]
  • VNHRN Strongly Condemns the Sentencing of Two Songwriters Viet Khang and Tran Vu Anh Binh - On 10/30/2012, two songwriters, Vo Minh Tri (aka Viet Khang) and Tran Vu Anh Binh (aka Hoang Nhat Thong) were tried and sentenced to four and six years in prison respectively.  Both were convicted under Article 88 of the Vietnamese Criminal Code for “conducting propaganda against the state.”  Their crimes, in the words of the […]
  • Conviction and Sentencing of Viet Khang and Tran Vu Anh Binh - Press Statement – Mark C. Toner, Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson. November 1, 2012, Washington, DC. The United States is troubled by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court conviction and sentencing on October 30 of musicians Viet Khang and Tran Vu Anh Binh on charges of “propagandizing against the state.” The Court sentenced Viet Khang […]
  • Bộ ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ ra thông cáo về việc VN kết tội và tuyên án Việt Khang và Trần Vũ Anh Bình - Ngày 1/11/2012, Washington DC, Mark Toner, Phó phát ngôn nhân, BNG Hoa Kỳ – Hoa Kỳ lấy làm lo ngại khi Tòa án nhân dân Tp. HCM kết tội và tuyên án các nhạc sĩ Việt Khang và Trần Vũ Anh Bình về tội “tuyên truyền chống nhà nước” hôm 30/10/2012. Tòa tuyên án Việt Khang […]