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  • Hanoi, date set for Catholic lawyer and dissident, Le Quoc Quan’s appeal - Appeal set for next February 18. The lawyer was sentenced to 30 months for “tax evasion” , but sentence really motivated by his activism critical of the Communist Party and the government. “Satisfactory” health conditions. Only permitted “official” newspapers to read in his cell, forbidden the Bible. Hanoi ( AsiaNews / EDA ) – The […]
  • Việt Nam : Giữa tháng Hai sẽ xử phúc thẩm luật sư Lê Quốc Quân - Anh Vũ, RFI Thứ hai 27 Tháng Giêng 2014. Ngày 18 /2/2014, Tòa án Nhân dân thành phố Hà Nội sẽ đưa ra xét xử phúc thẩm vụ án Lê Quốc Quân phạm tội trốn thuế. Đó là nội dung thông báo của tòa án Hà Nội gửi tới cho các luật sư bào chữa cho […]
  • Lawmakers ‘adopt’ prisoners in human rights push - By Julian Pecquet | January 18, 2014, 02:20 pm | The Hill Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are teaming up to bring the plight of human rights defenders to light by adopting prisoners of conscience from around the world. Twenty-one House members have agreed to sponsor a total of 19 imprisoned human rights defenders from Iran, […]
  • Vietnamese Malware Gets Very Personal - January 19, 2014 | By Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire | EFF As encryption has become more prevalent in online communications as a countermeasure against surveillance, attackers have sought to circumvent these measures by covertly installing malware on targeted computers that can log keystrokes, remotely spy on users with their own webcams, record Skype calls, […]
  • Vietnam Worse Than Syria in Jailing Reporters - With 18 journalists behind bars, Vietnam ranks fifth in the world for imprisoning members of the press. By Luke Hunt, January 21, 2014 | The Diplomat Vietnam has made the top 10 list of countries that jail reporters for simply doing their job. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Vietnam came in at […]
  • Mother of jailed Vietnam activist warns on trade pact - Friday, 17 January 2014 01:12| Written by AFP – The Guardian THE mother of a jailed Vietnamese labor activist appealed Thursday for the United States to use a Pacific trade pact as pressure to end what rights groups call widespread violations. The mother of Do Thi Minh Hanh, one of three organizers at a shoe […]
  • Please Help Defend Writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan Whose Sternum Was Broken by Agents of Vietnam’s Public Security Forces! - Chan Minh, January 8, 2014 In a post dated January 4, 2014 (1) and also in a Youtube.com video (2), Mr. Huynh Ngoc Tuan told the story of the savage beating he received when traveled to Hanoi with a friend, Mr. Pham Ba Hai, to visit friends who are dissidents and/or human rights activists. These friends […]
  • Vietnam Activists Want Association to Address Public Complaints - Reported by An Nguyen and Mac Lam for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Translated by Viet Ha. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink. A group of activists in Vietnam are moving to launch a nationwide association to help address public complaints against government land grabs, police brutality, and corruption among officials in the one-party Communist state. The […]
  • Buddhist youth leader Lê Công Câu under house arrest in Hue - Last Update 2 January 2014 On the morning of January 1, 2014, security police arrested Vietnamese human rights defender and head of the Buddhist Youth Movement (BYM), Lê Công Cau, at Phu Bai Airport near Hue after he boarded a plane bound for Ho Chi Minh City. FIDH and its member organization the Vietnam Committee […]
  • Vietnamese Authorities Detain Former Political Prisoners Visiting Fellow Dissident - Reported by An Nguyen for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. On 31 Dec, 2013. Vietnamese authorities on Tuesday detained and interrogated three former political prisoners, beating one of them severely, as they traveled to visit a fellow ex-prisoner of conscience at his home outside the capital, a member of the group […]