Detained blogger sees mother for first time since disappearance from Thailand-A blogger who last year went missing from Thailand and later resurfaced in Vietnamese police custody was finally allowed to meet his mother for the first time since his disappearance, his family told Radio Free Asia. Duong Van Thai, 41, was living in Thailand when he disappeared on April 13 in what many believe was […]
Viet Nam: End convictions and deplorable detention conditions for human rights defenders, UN experts say-GENEVA (14 February 2024) – UN experts today urged the Government of Viet Nam to stop targeting, convicting, and mistreating human rights defenders, after environmental human rights defender Dang Dinh Bách began his third hunger strike to protest against his detention conditions. “We are extremely concerned about the safety and well-being of environmental human rights […]
Prison authorities refuse to sell canteen food to jailed blogger-Prison authorities have refused to sell jailed Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Tran Huynh Duy Thuc food from the facility’s canteen, a week after he voluntarily ended a hunger strike, members of his family said Wednesday. Convicted in 2010 on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, Thuc is serving a 16-year sentence for writing online […]
TNLT Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức ngừng tuyệt thực nhưng thiếu thức ăn nghiêm trọng-Tù nhân lương tâm (TNLT) Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, người đang ở những năm cuối của án tù 16 năm ở Trại giam số 6, đã dừng cuộc tuyệt thực ngắn trong bảy ngày nhưng có thể ông sẽ phải đấu tranh tiếp vì thiếu thực phẩm nghiêm trọng. Thông tin trên được gia đình […]
Nhà hoạt động Vàng Seo Giả tới Mỹ định cư: Sẽ tiếp tục lên tiếng cho người H’mong-Ông Vàng Seo Giả, thành viên của Liên minh Nhân quyền Người H’mong (Hmong Human Rights Coalition), cùng vợ và con trai sống tị nạn ở Thái Lan từ năm 2018. Với sự trợ giúp của Liên Hiệp quốc, gia đình ông đã được tái định cư tại Hoa Kỳ. Ngày 31/1, ông rời Thái […]
US-based activist continues to speak up for Vietnam minority-Vang Seo Gia arrived in the United States on Feb.1 with his wife and son after the ethnic Hmong family spent six years living in Thailand as refugees. The Hmong, many of whom are Christian, live mainly in Vietnam’s Central Highlands where they struggle to obtain ID documents and face land grabs from the local […]
Torture, forced labor alleged at Prince Group-linked compound-This is the third article in a three-part series on the Prince Group. For Part I of RFA’s investigation, click here. For Part II, click here. Panha has an idea of the horrors that take place within the Golden Fortune Science and Technology Park in Cambodia’s southeastern border town Chrey Thom. He has witnessed what happens to […]
Critics dismiss Vietnam’s clemency for death row inmates as ‘progress’-Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong recently commuted the sentences of several inmates on death row to life in prison as part of a general amnesty, but rights campaigners and legal experts said the move should not be seen as a sign that the country is improving its rights record. Instead, they said, Vietnam’s liberal use […]
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