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  • U.S. President Very Concerned about Human Rights Records in Vietnam: Dieu Cay - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 05, 2015 (Defend the Defenders) U.S. President Barack Obama is very concerned about human rights violations in Vietnam, said prominent political dissident and famous blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay.) Mr. Hai made this conclusion at an interview with the Radio for Free Asia (RFA) immediately after the […]
  • Vietnam Procuracy Proposes Voice, Video Recording during Interrogation - By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 05, 2015 (Defend the Defenders) Vietnam’s Supreme People’s Procuracy has proposed compulsory recording voice and video during interrogation in a bid to enhance transparency in crime investigation, state media reported. The compulsory recording must be included in the draft law on criminal procedure in a bid to enhance overseeing police interrogation, […]
  • Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly April 27- May 03: U.S. President Obama Very Concerned about Vietnam’s Human Rights Situation - Defenders’ Weekly | May 03, 2015 ***********27/4/015************ Hanoi Suppresses Peaceful Green Demonstration, Detaining 20 Environmentalists Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on April 26 violently dispersed a peaceful green demonstration, detaining for several hours around 20 local environmentalists who protest a controversial plan by the city’s authorities to chop down 6,700 healthy aged […]
  • Tuần tin người bảo vệ nhân quyền 27/4-3/5/2015: Tổng Thống Obama rất quan tâm nhân quyền VN - Defenders’ Weekly | 03-05-2015 ***********27/4/015************* Ít nhất 20 người bị bắt khi tuần hành “Vì một Hà Nội xanh” Ngày 26/4/2015 hơn 300 người tiếp tục tuần hành nhằm phản đối chặt hạ cây xanh diễn ra ở bờ hồ và tượng đài Lý Thái Tổ nhưng đã bị lực lượng an ninh ngăn chặn, […]
  • Hanoi consults bishops on a new law on faiths that violates religious freedom - Asia News | May 04, 2015 Hanoi (AsiaNews) – The Vietnamese government’s draft laws on “faith and religion” are in violation of “the right to freedom of religion”, go against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, show that the purpose of government is “to profoundly interfere […]
  • Before meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, Obama holds talk with Dieu Cay - Dân Làm Báo | May 02, 2015 US President Barack Obama has held a talk with blogger Nguyen Van Hai (aka. Dieu Cay), who used to be considered “anti-state” and sentenced to almost 15 years of imprisonment by the communist government of Vietnam. The meeting is particularly significant when it takes place before Nguyen Phu […]
  • Interview: ‘This is The Right Time For Activists and Journalists in Vietnam’ - RFA | May 01, 2015 Six months after being deported to the United States following his release from a prison in Vietnam, dissident blogger Nguyen Van Hai, also known by his pen name Dieu Cay, spoke to RFA’s Vietnamese Service about meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama about global press freedom. Hai, whose online articles […]
  • Cambodia: Register, Not Return, Vietnamese Asylum Seekers - HRW | May 01, 2015 (Phnom Penh) – Cambodia’s refusal to allow asylum seekers from Vietnam to register and seek refugee status demonstrates a dismal failing to abide by international refugee law, LICADHO and Human Rights Watch said today. In the last four months, Cambodia has forcibly deported 54 Vietnamese asylum seekers, and appears poised […]
  • Tự do tôn giáo của Việt Nam năm 2014: USCIRF -   Báo cáo thường niên 2015 của Uỷ ban Tự do Tôn giáo Quốc tế của Hoa Kỳ Nguồn: USCIRF (April 30, 2015) Bản dịch của Vũ Quốc Ngữ Tự do tôn giáo của Việt Nam năm 2014 Những phát hiện chính Chính phủ Việt Nam tiếp tục kiểm soát tất cả các hoạt động tôn […]
  • U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom places Vietnam on blacklist for violations of freedom of religion or belief - Vietnam Commitee on Human rights | Apr 30, 2015 PARIS, 30 April 2015 (Vietnam Committee) – In its 2015 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom issued today, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placed Vietnam on a list of 17 countries, recommending that they be designated as “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) by […]