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  • Democracy activist Pham Ba Hai completes 7-year sentence - By Sao Khue (Defend the Defenders) Sept 9, 2013 On Sept 8, democracy activist Pham Ba Hai marked his completion of the two-year period under house, the additional measure set by the communist government after spending five years in prison for “conducting propaganda against state”.
  • Hot News: Writer Nguyen Xuan Nghia beaten in jail - [stextbox id=”info”] Today, 4 September 2013, Mrs Duong Thi Tan and Nguyen Tri Dung, ex-wife and son of blogger Dieu Cay – Nguyen Van Hai, went to visit him at Prison Camp VI in the north central province of Nghe An. The meeting lasted about 20 minutes. Upon hearing Dieu Cay hurriedly saying that “Uncle Nguyen Xuan […]
  • Ngo Hao’s Family: Appeal for Help - APPEAL FOR HELP! Phu Yen, September 01, 2013 To: – The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – U.S. President Barrack Obama and Democratic Governments of the World – The Chairpersons of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the US and the Democratic Countries – The Commission on International Religious Freedom USA – The U.S. […]
  • The Vietnamese Communist rulers are utilizing prisons to maltreat patriotic youths - By religious officials in Vietnam The Vietnamese Communist rulers are utilizing prisons to maltreat patriotic youths We demand that student prisoner Đỗ Thị Minh Hạnh be released for medical care To: – Responsible Members of the National Assembly of Vietnam
  • Vietnam: Update – Ill-treatment of imprisoned human rights defenders Vi Duc Hoi, Paulus Le Son and Nguyen Van Oai - Front Line Defenders August 30, 2013 Based on information provided to Front Line Defenders on 24 August 2013, human rights defenders Messrs Vi Duc Hoi and Nguyen Van Oai have been ordered to be placed in solitary confinement for 6 months from 20 July 2013 in retaliation to their protest against the ill-treatment of fellow human rights defender Mr Paulus […]
  • Vietnam: A Police State Where One-In-Six Works For Security Forces - By Palash Ghosh | IB Times August 29 2013  Vietnam, one of the five remaining Communist nations in the world, takes its security very seriously. So seriously in fact that an estimated one in six working people in the Southeast Asian country are employed either full- or part-time in the massive state security network. According to […]
  • What are the 30 human rights? - 1. We Are All Born Free & Equal. We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way. 2. Don’t Discriminate. These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences. 3. The Right to Life. We all have the right to life, and to […]
  • Tuyên bố chung của Liên minh Tự do Internet về Nghị định 72/2013/NĐ-CP của CHXHCN Việt Nam - Bản dịch của Lê Thiên Hà (Defend the Defenders) Marie Harf, Phó Phát ngôn viên, Văn phòng Phát ngôn viên, Washington, DC Ngày 26/08/2013 Liên minh Tự do Internet (Freedom Online Coalition) bày tỏ mối quan ngại sâu sắc trước việc Việt Nam loan báo về Nghị định 72, một nghị định sẽ áp đặt những hạn chế ngặt […]
  • Australian Diplomat Discusses Human Rights Situation in Vietnam with Bloggers - The Network of Vietnamese bloggers HANOI | Fri Aug 23, 2013 A group of Vietnamese bloggers today met with the Second Secretary of the Australian Embassy in Vietnam to hand Statement 258.
  • Vietnam’s bloggers challenging one party rule - BBC | Jonathan London August 21, 2013 After years of conflict and hardship, Vietnam has emerged as Asia’s newest industrialising economy – but social and economic change present challenges to one-party rule, among them the vibrant blogging scene. Vietnam specialist Jonathan London charts the state’s pursuit of bloggers in Vietnam’s newly fluid political scene.