Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Feb 9-15, 2015: Three Democracy Activists Jailed Totally 44 Months-Defender’s Weekly | Feb 17, 2015 ***********9/2/2015********** HRW Condemns Cambodia’s Returning Vietnamese Refugees to Their Home Country The Human Right Watch (HRW) on Feb 8 called on Cambodia’s government to abide by international commitment as not return Vietnamese political refugees to their home country since they would face discrimination in Vietnam. The HRW also […]
Vợ ông Ba Sàm: ‘Họ quyết tâm xử chồng tôi’-BBC | 14/2/2015 Trao đổi với BBC cuối tuần này, bà Lê Thị Minh Hà vợ của ông Ba Sàm nói: “Tôi đã làm đơn kiến nghị đình chỉ vụ án lần thứ hai tại Viện Kiểm sát Nhân dân Tối cao rồi, từ ngày 4/2, nhưng mà từ ngày 6/2 họ đã vẫn ký […]
Vietnam’s Capital City Grants Amnesty to 305 Inmates ahead of Tet Holiday, No Activist Included -Feb 14, 2015 |KTT (Defend the Defenders) Police in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have granted amnesty to 305 inmates without any activist on the occasion of the Lunar New Year or Tet festival, the largest holiday of the country. Local police proclaimed the amnesty on Feb 10, giving commuted sentences or release to the […]
Vietnam Releases on Bait Second Blogger, Still Holding Dozens Others-Feb 14, 2015 | Sao Khue (Defend the Defenders) Vietnam has released another prominent blogger on bait, the second within two days, but still holding over thirty other bloggers who exercise their right of freedom of expression enshrined in the country’s Constitution. Vietnamese-Japanese professor Hong Le Tho came home in Ho Chi Minh City on Feb […]
Vietnam Police Officer Accused of Ordering Fatal Attack on Traffic Violator-Feb 14, 2015 | Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) Police in Ho Chi Minh City are probing a local officer for allegedly ordering a brutal beating that left a man dead last year, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Lieutenant Pham Sy Hoai Nhu was accused of asking a group of men to attack Nguyen […]
3.000 công nhân nhà máy BSE ở Nghệ An đình công-RFA | 13/2/2015 Một công nhân tham gia đình công vào tối hôm qua cho Đài Á Châu Tự do biết như sau: “Ba giờ được giải lao, chúng tôi tập trung đình công trước văn phòng xếp Tổng đòi phát tiền thưởng Tết trong ngày hôm nay và đòi một số quyền lợi khác […]
Vietnam Imprisons Three Activists after Releasing on Bait Two Bloggers-Feb 13, 2015 | Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) Vietnam’s communist government has imprisoned three activists for anti-state charges after releasing two bloggers on bait to go home to spend the Lunar New Year or Tet, foreign media reported. The People’s Court of the southern province of Dong Nai on Feb 12 found Pham […]
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2015: decline on all fronts-Top of the list, as so often, are three Scandinavian countries: Finland, which has been in first place for five years in succession, followed by Norway and Denmark. At the other end of the scale, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, in last place, were the worst performers. France is ranked 38th (up one place), the […]
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