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  • Viet Nam: Release bloggers, stop harassing their family and friends - September 21, 2012. Amnesty International – Three Vietnamese bloggers who face up to 20 years in jail simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today, ahead of their trial at Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Court on Monday 24 September 2012. 
  • Vietnam: Drop Charges Against and Release Bloggers - Prime Minister Leads Assault on Critics, Shutters Blogs SEPTEMBER 20, 2012. (New York) – Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges against three prominent bloggers and immediately release them, Human Rights Watch said today. The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City is scheduled to try Nguyen Van Hai (known as Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (known […]
  • Vietnam’s press freedom shrinks despite open economy - Vietnamese officials are stepping up repression of old and new media even as they promote an image of an open, globalized economy. Intense surveillance and imprisonment of critical journalists, coupled with increasingly restrictive laws, are choking the flow of information. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin A police officer blocks photographers at an anti-China […]
  • DISSIDENTS AND FAMILIES TARGETED, COVERT HARASSMENT AND REPRISALS - TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2012 – Reporters Without Borders is appalled by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s directive calling on the authorities to impose “serious punishments” on those responsible for three popular anti-corruption blogs that he described as “slanderous.” The organization also deplores the arrest of the wife of the jailed journalist and blogger Dieu Cay, the sister of the […]
  • UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (1998) - Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groupsand Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms The General Assembly, Reaffirming the importance of the observance of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations for the promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for […]
  • Tuyên ngôn Liên Hiệp Quốc về Người bảo vệ Nhân quyền (1998) - Tuyên ngôn LHQ về quyền và nghĩa vụ của cá nhân, nhóm, tổ chức xã hội trong việc thúc đẩy và bảo vệ nhân quyền và các quyền tự do căn bản đã được quốc tế công nhận. Đại Hội đồng Liên Hiệp Quốc, Tái khẳng định tầm quan trọng của việc thực thi những […]
  • We Must Support Human Rights, Democracy in Vietnam, Ros-Lehtinen Says - Tuesday, September 11, 2012 – Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today spoke in favor of the Vietnam Human Rights Act (H.R. 1410), which prohibits an increase in non-humanitarian assistance to Vietnam unless pro-democracy and human rights programs are supported.
  • INTERNATIONAL COVENANT on ECONOMIC, SOCIAL and CULTURAL RIGHTS (1966) - Socialist Republic of Vietnam ratified on Sep 24, 1982  Preamble The States Parties to the present Covenant, Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of […]
  • CÔNG ƯỚC QUỐC TẾ về các QUYỀN KINH TẾ, XÃ HỘI và VĂN HOÁ (1966) - Nước CHXHCN Việt Nam ký gia nhập ngày 24/9/1982. LỜI NÓI ĐẦU Các quốc gia thành viên Công ước này, Xét rằng, theo những nguyên tắc nêu trong Hiến chương Liên Hợp Quốc, việc thừa nhận phẩm giá vốn có và những quyền bình đẳng, không thể chuyển nhượng của mọi thành viên trong cộng đồng nhân loại […]
  • Vietnamese journalist jailed for undercover bribery - New York, September 7, 2012–A Vietnamese journalist who bribed a police officer during an undercover investigation to expose corruption was sentenced today to four years in prison, according to local and international news reports.