Vietnam Urged to Drop Charges Against Former News Editor-VOA | May 14, 2015 WASHINGTON—A New York-based organization that promotes press freedom has called on Vietnam to “drop spurious charges” against Kim Quoc Hoa, former editor-in-chief of The Elderly newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists also asked Vietnam to “allow the media to play a checking and balancing role without fear of reprisal.” Hoa was […]
Vietnamese blogger and human rights defender Nguyen Chi Tuyen attacked-thoolen | May 14, 2015 On 11 May 2015, environmental rights defender Mr Nguyen Chi Tuyen was attacked by five unidentified men in Hanoi, Vietnam,according to information received by Front Line Defenders. The human rights defender’s car was halted in the Long Bien District by five masked men, who surrounded the vehicle. The assailants proceeded to […]
#COLLATERALFREEDOM: RSF UNBLOCKS TWO MORE WEBSITES-RSF | May 12, 2015 Operation Collateral Freedom is based on the technique of mirroring. RSF creates a copy of the blocked site on a website hosting service provided by a big Internet company such as Fastly, Amazon, Microsoft or Google. If a government that is an “Enemy of the Internet” were to block access to […]
Hanoi-based Activists Hold Demonstration Against Vietcombank Illegal Keeping Money of Prominent Dissident-DTD | May 14,2015 By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 14, 2015 Dozens of Hanoi-based activists on May 12 held a street demonstration to protest the Joint Stock Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank (VCB), which illegally refuses to pay Dr. Nguyen Thanh Giang, a well-known political dissident in the capital city, local […]
Senator Janet Nguyen condemns brutal beating of activist-nguoi-viet | May 13, 2015 Nguyễn Chí Tuyến, a human rights advocate living in Vietnam was brutally beaten while walking his children home from school on May 11 in Hanoi. Photos of the attack have been posted online and the imagery is gruesome. California Senator Janet Nguyen is calling on U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Tes […]
Human rights abuses in Vietnam make TPP unacceptable-The Hill | May 13, 2015 Among the potential partners in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Vietnam is the only country that bans independent labor unions and religious groups. It’s the only country considered one of the world’s worst violators of Internet freedom. It harbors severe child labor and forced labor violators, and regularly jails and […]
Vietnamese editor charged for publishing graft reports-News24 | May 13, 2015 Hanoi – A Vietnamese magazine editor was charged with crimes against the state for publishing articles accusing senior officials of corruption, reports said on Wednesday. Kim Quoc Hoa was dismissed in March as editor-in-chief of Nguoi Cao Tuoi (The Elderly), accused of “abusing his freedoms and democratic rights in publishing articles […]
Viet Labor’s Le Thi Cong Nhan handed tpp letter to US human rights dialogue representative-Protectvietworkers | May 13, 2015 To the US Representative in the Human Rights Dialogue with Hanoi,My name is Le Thi Cong Nhan. I represent Free Viet Labor Federation (abbreviated to Viet Labor) established in January 2014 comprising three labor groups: Vietnam Independent Union (established in Vietnam before 2006), Viet Labor Movement (established in Vietnam in 2008) […]
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