May 29, 2016
Hanoi Security Forces Detain Many Environmentalists for Street Sit-in Demonstration Related to Mass Killing of Aquatic Species in Central Coastal Region
By Vu Quoc Ngu, March 29, 2016 Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on May 29 detained a number of environmental activists who conducted a street sit-in demonstration in the city’s center for government’s transparency in the mass killing of aquatic species in the country’s central offshore. Among detainees are bloggers La Viet […]
August 23, 2019
Vietnam’s Security Forces Detain Environmentalist Dang Vu Luong, Beating Pro-democracy Campaigner Nguyen Van Phuong
by Nhan Quyen • Dang Vu Luong, Nguyen Van Phuong
Defend the Defenders, August 23, 2019 On August 22, Vietnam’s security forces detained environmentalist Dang Vu Luong for more than ten hours, and beat pro-democracy campaigner Nguyen Van Phuong when he and others came to question about the detention, Defend the Defenders has learned. According to the unregistered independent civil organization Cây Xanh (Green […]