Identifying The Vietnam Authorities’ Advocacy Using Violence Against Human Rights Defenders-FVPoC | Nov 11, 2014 U.S. Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski on a press conference in Hanoi on Oct 27, the last day of his visit to the communist nation, said “…it would not be progress if a dozen people were released and then a dozen more people were arrested, so what we stressed above all […]
Chào Mừng Các Hội Viên Mới Gia Nhập Vào Hội Cựu Tù Nhân Lương Tâm-CTNLT | 10/11/2014 CTNLT Nhà Văn Nguyễn Xuân Nghĩa là một trong những gương mặt tiên phong của phong trào dân chỉ Việt Nam. Ông cũng là thành viên ban điều hành khối 8406, là một nhà văn có nhiều tác phẩm và bài viết tiêu biểu. Ông bị bắt vào năm 2008 vì đã […]
Điếu Cày sẽ lật lại vụ án “CLB nhà báo tự do”?-Thảo Vy * Tác giả gửi bài cho VNTB Ngày 27-10, VOA có bài phỏng vấn blogger Điếu Cày Nguyễn Văn Hải. (http://www.voatiengviet.com/content/blogger-dieu-cay-tuyen-bo-se-kien-vietnam-ra-toa-quoc-te/2498421.html) Trả lời VOA, ông Hải nói: “Việc đưa chúng tôi vào trại giam là hoàn toàn trái pháp luật, và quả thực nó trái pháp luật đối với ngay chính pháp luật […]
Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Nov 3-9, 2014: Independent Journalist Truong Minh Duc Brutally Beaten by Mobs-Defend the Defenders | 11/11/2014 Defenders’ Weekly ********3/11/2014********* Two Political Prisoners Released Prisoner of conscience Tran Huu Duc on Nov 2 completed his 39-month imprisonment he was sentenced in 2011 for conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the Criminal Code. After coming home in Nam Loc commune in Nam Dan district in Nghe An province […]
Vietnam Urged to Criminalize Torture to Halt Corporal Treatment-by Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 10, 2014 Defend the Defenders All acts of torture should be criminalized by labeling it as a crime with punishments similar to those stipulated for crimes in Chapter XXIV of the Penal Code, which range from 10 years in prison to the death penalty, said Dr. Dao Thi Le Thu […]
French Senior Diplomat Assaulted by Mobs in Vietnam Southern Hub-by Vu Quoc Ngu, Nov 10, 2014 Defend the Defenders Mr. Battalan was beaten when he came to a private house of Pham Minh Hoang, a Franco-Vietnamese blogger in the city after the blogger asked for help. Five days ago, a group of gangsters accompanied by plain-clothes security agents moved into a house close to […]
Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski, U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor-US Embassy to Hanoi, Media Roundtable | October 27, 2014 Moderator: — But we’re very fortunate in our visitor today because of the wide-ranging nature of the topics, which are of such interest these days, we’re pleased to have Tom Malinowski who is the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, the Department […]
RWB CONDEMNS HARASSMENT OF VIETNAMESE BLOGGER AND FAMILY-RSF , PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2014. Reporters Without Borders deplores the harassment of the blogger Pham Minh Hoang and his family, which led to an assault on the French consul-general in Ho Chi Minh City on November 5. The diplomat, Emmanuel Ly Battalan, was assaulted by gangsters supported by plain-clothes police when he […]
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