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  • US says democracy promotion key to Asia policy, criticizes Vietnam ‘backsliding’ on rights - Article by: MATTHEW PENNINGTON , Associated Press Updated: March 21, 2013 – 6:41 PM WASHINGTON – The Obama administration expressed concern Thursday about Vietnam’s “backsliding” on human rights and asserted that advancing individual freedoms is key to U.S. policy in Asia. One example cited is Hanoi’s treatment of bloggers who have faced prosecution under national […]
  • Buddhist Youth leader Le Cong Cau risks prosecution for writing articles criticizing the Communist Party in Vietnam - 2013-03-19 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 19 March 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply concerned for the security of prominent Buddhist youth leader and writer Le Cong Cau who has been threatened with prosecution by Security Police after his articles criticizing the Communist Partys policies on Buddhism and territorial […]
  • WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN MY SITUATION? - Translated by Lê Anh Hùng (Defend the Defenders) Hai Phong, 19 March, 2013 – When I pose that question to you, I don’t mean that I expect you or any other Vietnamese to go through what I have experienced. It is simply that I expect your sympathy. I believe that life will be much interesting […]
  • Mysterious Attack on a Vietnamese Blog - Written by David Brown – MONDAY, 18 MARCH 2013 Round up the usual suspects… Twenty months ago, I was approached by a member of the team that puts out the Anh Ba Sam blog, Vietnam’s leading source of “alternative news.” Would I mind, they asked, if they posted a Vietnamese translation of a story that […]
  • CUỘC TẤN CÔNG BÍ ẨN NHẰM VÀO MỘT BLOG VN - Bản dịch của Nguyễn Thành (Defend the Defenders) Tác giả: David Brown – cựu nhân viên ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ với nhiều kinh nghiệm về VN. Thứ hai, 18/3/2013 – Khoanh vùng các nghi phạm thông thường… Hai mươi tháng trước, một thành viên của nhóm khởi xướng blog Anh Ba Sàm– nguồn tin “ngoài luồng” […]
  • RSF: Việt Nam 5 năm liên tiếp là Kẻ thù của Internet -
  • Human Rights Organizations Call on the UN to Aid Detained Vietnamese Blogger Le Quoc Quan - MARCH 15, 2013 | BY EVA GALPERIN – the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – On 27 December 2012 prominent Vietnamese activist and blogger Le Quoc Quan was arbitrarily arrested and detained by local authorities while taking his daughter to school. The arrest was the culmination of years of constant surveillance and harassment over his extensive writing on […]
  • NGO COALITION, INCLUDING RWB, URGES UN TO PRESS FOR JAILED BLOGGER’S RELEASE - PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2013 – Read the special report on Internet surveillance in Vietnam Vietnam is on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Enemies of the Internet” and is now the world’s third biggest prison for bloggers and cyber-dissidents, after China and Oman. JOINT PRESS RELEASE – 13 March 2013 Today, a broad coalition […]
  • Netizen Huynh Ngoc Chenh’s Remarks to the RSF’s award ceremony on Mar 12, 2013 - Updated on Mar 14, 2013. Translated by Me Nam (Defend the Defenders) Ladies and gentlemen, It is a surprise and a pleasure to be here at this honorable ceremony today, just because, in my country, many rights are regconized under the constitution but the authorities have restricted them by all means. Over the past two years, many […]
  • 4 Signs the Vietnamese Government Is Crushing the Country’s ‘Social Media Revolution’ - Vietnamese students surf the Internet at a cafe in Hanoi March 18, 2004. (Reuters) DANA WAGNER – Dana Wagner is a migration-policy consultant based in Hanoi. The Communist Party has responded to the growth of anti-state blogging with a disturbing crackdown. MAR 11 2013, 1:04 PM ET – After more than a year in pre-trial […]