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  • Vietnam releases two high-profile dissidents in latest amnesty - Scmp | 14 April, 2014 Vietnam has released two political activists, the latest high-profile dissidents to be freed as the communist nation comes under increasing international pressure over its human rights record. Blogger Nguyen Tien Trung told reporters that he and Vi Duc Hoi, a Communist Party official turned democracy campaigner, had been freed on Saturday. […]
  • Vietnam frees at least one more political activist - Reuters |  Apr 14, 2014 Nguyen Tien Trung, a blogger, was released from a prison in southern Ho Chi Minh City at the weekend, his father said on Monday. Trung was convicted of subversion and news of his release was not made public. Nguyen Tu Tu described it as a positive move by the authorities and […]
  • Vietnam Releases Dissidents Amid US Trade Talks - By CHRIS BRUMMITT – ABCnews | April 14, 2014 Vi Duc Hoi and Nguyen Tien Trung were released over the weekend with 1 ½ years and nine months left of their sentences to serve. They were each convicted of crimes relating to their peaceful advocacy for multiparty democracy in Vietnam, which is ruled by an authoritarian […]
  • Vietnam frees Nguyen Tien Trung and Vi Duc Hoi - BBC | 14 April 2014 Vietnam has released two high-profile political activists amid ongoing free trade talks with the United States. Democracy activists Nguyen Tien Trung and Vi Duc Hoi were freed from prison over the weekend. Earlier in April, prominent activist Cu Huy Ha Vu was also released from jail. He has since flown […]
  • Ân xá quốc tế: Hướng dẫn xét xử công bằng - VRNs – Chuacuuthe | 13.04.2014 Sài Gòn – Từ Anh Quốc, Tổ chức ân xá quốc tế (Amnesty International – AI) vừa xuất bản ấn bản thứ hai của tài liệu Hướng dẫn xét xử công bằng. AI cho rằng, công lý dựa trên sự tôn trọng các quyền con người của mỗi cá nhân. “Công […]
  • FULL TEXT: VIETNAMESE CIVIL SOCIETY’S TESTIMONY BEFORE CANADIAN SENATE COMMITTEE - VNRN | APRIL 12, 2014 Representatives of Vietnam’s independent civil societytestified before the Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Senate on April 7. The panel heard testimony from Hoi Trinh, the executive director of VOICE (Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment), journalist and blogger Pham Doan Trang [Phạm Đoan Trang], a writer for Vietnamrightnow.com; blogger Nguyen Anh Tuan […]
  • STATEMENT BY THE VIETNAM PATH MOVEMENT ON THE RELEASE OF NGUYEN TIEN TRUNG AND VI DUC HOI - Vietnamrightnow | APRIL 13, 2014 The Vietnam Path Movement has received news of activists Nguyen Tien Trung and Vi Duc Hoi being released from prison today following an order signed by Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang. We believe the release of these two activists is a positive change toward human rights in Vietnam, which is the main operational objective of the Vietnam […]
  • TWO POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED EARLY - VNRN | APRIL 13, 2014 Hoi, 57 (pictured above, right), an ethnic Tay from northern Lang Son province, is a former Communist Party official who wrote a blog advocating for human rights and a multi-party democratic system. He was convicted in 2011 of “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic” under Article 88 of the Penal Code and sentenced to […]
  • Vietnam Frees Two Prominent Dissidents Following Foreign Pressure - RFA | 2014-04-12 Vietnam on Saturday freed two prominent dissidents following international pressure on the one party communist state to improve its human rights record. Trung, 31, was arrested in July 2009 and sentenced the next year to seven years in prison on charges on charges of attempting to “overthrow the government” by supporting the […]
  • Confronting the suffering in Vietnam’s prisons - By Bob Dietz, CPJ | Apr 4, 2014 Dinh Dang Dinh, a former Vietnamese schoolteacher and blogger, died on April 3 from cancer of the stomach. Near death, he had been released from his six-year prison sentence on March 21, and allowed to return home to die in Dak Nong province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. His crime, […]