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  • RFA Hosts Vietnamese Netizens Seminar - RFA | 2014-05-01 WASHINGTON In two panels, speakers discussed ways to promote opening Vietnam’s oppressive digital landscape and media environment. The event was co-sponsored by RFA’s Open Technology Fund (OTF), Vietnamese reform party Viet Tan, ACCESS, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). “For RFA’s audience – and everyone around the world – empowerment begins with free speech and free press […]
  • USCIRF Issues its 2014 Annual Report – 15th Anniversary Retrospective: Renewing the Commitment - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE USCIRF | April 30, 2014 Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) created to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, today released its 2014 Annual Report, and recommended that the State Department add eight more nations to its list of […]
  • REDEMPTORIST PRIEST IN THE LIST OF “100 INFORMATION HEROES” - CSSR | April 30, 2014 Le Ngoc Thanh, CSsR, a Vietnamese Redemptorist is listed in the “100 information heroes” by the Reporters Without Borders for the forthcoming World Press Freedom Day (3 May). (See the link: http://fr.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/pdf_en_3mai.pdf). Reporters Without Borders is registered in France as a non-profit organization and has consultant status at the United […]
  • A message from son of Vietnam blogger Nguyen Van Hai - By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator CPJ | April 29, 2014 In preparation for today’s Congressional Briefing on Media Freedom in Vietnam, organized by members of the U.S. House of Representatives and featuring a panel of Vietnamese bloggers and others, CPJ has been in close contact with the family of Nguyen Van Hai, a blogger who […]
  • Silenced Voices – Prisoners of conscience in Viet Nam - Amnesty International | April 30, 2014 1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY “A person is independent only if he has his freedom. And only when his rights are respected and fully protected by the laws then he is truly free.” Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, 47, a prisoner of conscience serving a 16-year jail sentence since May 2009. […]
  • European Parliamentary Assembly: The definition of political prisoner - Resolution 1900 (2012) Final version Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly Origin: Assembly debate on 3 October 2012 (33rd Sitting) (see Doc. 13011, report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur: Mr Strässer). Text adopted by the Assembly on 3 October 2012 (33rd Sitting). 1. The Parliamentary Assembly recalls that the definition of “political prisoner” was elaborated […]
  • VNHRN – Report on Human Rights in Viet Nam - VNHRN | April 30, 2014 Excutive Summary The human rights situation in Vietnam in 2013 was marked with a number of notable events. First, Vietnam was elected to the UN Human Rights Council on November 12th. This selection was not a surprise because there were only four Asian countries vying for four empty seats. However, this […]
  • Asians Among 100 Honored for Promoting Press Freedom - By Joshua Lipes – RFA | 2014-04-29 A young Cambodian reporter who has been subjected to repeated attacks for exposing rights abuses and a Myanmar journalist jailed after investigating a scholarship program are among 100 “information heroes” honored by a global media watchdog ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. Also included on the […]
  • Vietnam’s Blogosphere Poses Big Challenge to State Media, Activists Say - By Rachel Vandenbrink – RFA | 2014-04-29 Vietnam’s blogosphere is posing a big challenge to state media as social media grows in popularity and government-sanctioned newspapers lose readership, a group of Vietnamese citizen journalists and digital activists told U.S. lawmakers at a meeting in Washington Tuesday. The netizens called for tougher U.S. pressure on Vietnam to […]
  • Ten journalists to free from prison - CPJ | April 29, 2014 On World Press Freedom Day, CPJ calls for the release of all jailed journalists By Shazdeh Omari/CPJ News Editor New York, April 29, 2014—Uzbek editor Muhammad Bekjanov has been in jail for 15 years, one of the longest imprisonments of journalists worldwide. Prominent Iranian journalist Siamak Ghaderi was imprisoned in […]