LETTER OF GRATITUDE from Teacher Dinh Dang Dinh’s family-To: • Benefactors in Vietnam and abroad . • Embassies in Hanoi and international NGOs on human rights. Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m Dang Thi Dinh, the wife of prisoner of conscience Dinh Dang Dinh. My husband currently suffers from terminal stomach cancer which has metastasised to his lymph nodes, being treated in room 101, Department […]
RWB AGAIN TRIES TO HAND PETITION TO VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL-PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2014. The blogger Bui Thi Minh Hang is still in prison, as is the human rights lawyer and blogger Le Quoc Quan, whose appeal will be heard on 18 February, but the Vietnamese government remains completely indifferent to their fate as it continues to celebrate France-Vietnam Year. Reporters Without Borders tried unsuccessfully to […]
VIETNAM SET TO GET EVEN STANKER HUMAN RIGHTS RANKING THIS YEAR-BY DAN HARKINS, FEBRUARY 13, 2014 | Segment Human Rights Watch announced Thursday that Vietnam was still bullying any and all opposition to its authoritarian, one-party communist rule. According to Brad Adams, the Asia Director for the non-profit group, uniformed and plainclothes agents cut the Internet to and rifled through a home in the Dong Thap region, […]
VIETNAM: Release terminally ill human rights defender-On 14 Feb, 2014 | FIDH Paris-Geneva, February 14, 2014. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), express deep concern over the health of human rights […]
U.S. Relations With Vietnam-BUREAU OF EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS Fact Sheet February 14, 2014 More information about Vietnam is available on the Vietnam Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet. U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS The United States established diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1950, following its limited independence within […]
Viet Nam : Le Quoc Quan writes from prison-On 14 Feb 2014, English PEN Blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has been detained since December 2012 and is currently on hunger strike. Ahead of his appeal hearing next week, he has written to supporters across the globe, thanking them for their ongoing support My dear compatriots at home and abroad, While […]
Human Rights Watch: Việt Nam phải dừng ngay việc đàn áp các nhà đấu tranh nhân quyền-Bản dịch của [rollinglinks]Vũ Quốc Ngữ[/rollinglinks] (DTD) Ngày 13/2/2014, HRW Hành động của cảnh sát Việt Nam đối với Nguyễn Bắc Truyền là một phần của việc vi phạm nhân quyền một cách thường xuyên. Nó dường như là một hành động đáng xấu hổ nhằm vào các nhà đấu tranh nhân quyền. Các nhà viện trợ […]
An Appeal for Help from the Family of Huynh Thuc Vy-Dear friends, Last night (February 11, 2014), four members of the Public Security Forces pretending to be thugs initiated a rock throwing attack on my father’s home in Tam Ky, Quang Nam Province. What transpired was as follows. At 7:35 PM, four young men on two motorcycles stopped in front of my father’s house at […]
Dinh Dang Dinh, Jailed Vietnamese Dissident’s Life Can Be ‘Counted in Days and Hours’-Added by Pierre on February 13, 2014 | Small Journal The wife of a jailed dissident blogger undergoing treatment in hospital for cancer says his life can now be “counted in days and hours,” calling for renewed pressure on the Vietnamese government to release him so that he can die among friends and family. Dinh Dang Dinh, […]
Vietnam: Stop Harassment of Rights Defenders-Police Action Against Nguyen Bac Truyen Part of Sustained Pattern of Abuse FEBRUARY 13, 2014 | HRW (New York) – On the eve of his marriage, Vietnamese police temporarily detained lawyer and former political prisoner Nguyen Bac Truyen, Human Rights Watch said today. The police also briefly detained his fiancée, Bui Thi Kim Phuong, and […]
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