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Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy

January 1, 2017

Vietnam Prisoner of Conscience Still Placed in Incommunicado since Being Arrested in Late 2015

by • Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy

Defend the Defenders, December 31, 2016 Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa have placed Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy in incommunicado since his arrest in late November of 2015, not allowing him to meet with his mother and relatives nor receive supplements from his family. Speaking with Defend the Defenders, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Nay, […]

August 31, 2016

Viet Nam: Conviction of youth activists highlights authorities’retrograde attitude to human rights

by • Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy, Nguyen Huu Thien An

Amnesty International, August 27, 2016 The convictions of two young men – Nguyễn Hữu Quốc Duy and Nguyễn Hữu Thiên An – on charges of “conducting propaganda against the state” on 23 August 2016 highlight the failure of the authorities in Viet Nam to come to terms with the increased willingness of people in Viet […]

August 30, 2016

Vietnam Prisoner of Conscience Placed in Solitary Cell after Trial, Not Allowed to Meet Family

by • Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy

Defend the Defenders, August 30, 2016 Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa have placed Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy in a solitary cell immediately after a trial on August 23 in which he was sentenced to three years in jail on allegation of conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the country’s Penal Code, […]

August 24, 2016

Two Jailed in Vietnam in Closed Trial Over Facebook Offense

by • Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy, Nguyen Huu Thien An

RFA, August 24, 2016 A court in south-central Vietnam’s coastal Khanh Hoa province convicted two online activists of conducting propaganda against the state on Tuesday, handing one a three-year term and sentencing the other to two years in a closed trial, sources said. Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy, 31, was arrested by provincial police on Nov. […]

August 23, 2016

Vietnam Imprisons Two Activists for Anti-state Propaganda Allegation

by • [Human Rights], Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy, Nguyen Huu Thien An

By Vu Quoc Ngu, August 23, 2016 The People’s Court in Vietnam’s central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on August 23 found two online activists Nguyen Huu Quoc Duy and Nguyen Huu Thien An guilty of conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of the country’s Penal Code. The court sentenced Duy, 31, to three years […]