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  • SV Nguyễn Phương Uyên: Đề nghị Giám đốc thẩm hủy bản án Phúc thẩm - VRNs | 17.03.2014 Bình Thuận – Sinh viên Nguyễn Phương Uyên, người đang chịu bản án ba năm tù treo vì bị quy tội Tuyên truyền chống phá nhà nước CHXNCNVN, theo điều 88 BLHS. Tuy nhiên, ngay trong phiên tòa Sơ thẩm và Phúc thẩm diễn ra tại tỉnh Long An trong năm 2013 vừa […]
  • Royce – Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act - foreignaffairs | March 15, 2014 Summary: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Royce is sponsoring legislation to impose sanctions on individuals who are complicit in human rights abuses committed against nationals of Vietnam or their family members, and for other purposes. This legislation allows for the identification of Vietnamese nationals complicit in human rights abuses, describes travel and financial sanctions, outlines […]
  • Chairman Royce Introduces Vietnam Sanctions Legislation - foreignaffairs | MAR 14, 2014 Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced H.R. 4254 , the Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act, which imposes sanctions on Vietnamese government officials who are complicit in human rights abuses committed against the people of Vietnam. The introduced bill text and section-by-section summary of H.R. […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act S.929 - S. 929: Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act 113th Congress, 2013–2015. Text as of May 09, 2013 (Introduced). Status & Summary | PDF | Source: GPO S 929 IS  113th CONGRESS – 1st Session – S. 929 To impose sanctions on individuals who are complicit in human rights abuses committed against nationals of Vietnam or their family members, and for other purposes.
  • Royce introduces Vietnam sanctions bill - thehill | 15.03.14 Royce introduces Vietnam sanctions bill The Obama administration is pursuing a free trade agreement with Vietnam, but critics of the country’s authoritarian regime believe sanctions are in order. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), a vocal champion of human rights, on Friday introduced a bill that would impose targeted financial and visa […]
  • Hmong Ordered Jailed for Defying Vietnamese Government Campaign - RFA | 2014-03-14 A provincial court in northern Vietnam on Friday sentenced a Hmong Christian to 18 months in jail for defying a government campaign forcing the ethnic minority group to return to older funeral practices now considered wasteful by many in the community. Hoang Van Sang, 60, was handed an 18-month jail term by […]
  • Vietnamese police fabricates evidence, distorts witness statements to convict blogger - asianews | 03/12/2014 Hanoi (AsiaNews) – Five Vietnamese activists refused to sign the police version of statements they gave in relation to blogger who was arrested on spurious criminal charges. On Monday, the five gave their statements at the Lap Vo police station, in the southern province of Dong Thap, which were however distorted by police. […]
  • Government of Vietnam, Stop Imprisoning Bloggers and Netizens in Vietnam - SAFENET | March 13, 2014 Again bloggers with critical voice imprisoned by the Vietnamese government. The victim this time is Truong Duy Nhat who writes critically about the Communist Party-led government. Three days ago, this blogger who writes on Nhin Khac Nhat Mot Goc (Another Point of View) is found guilty and sentenced to two years […]
  • Vietnam: mounting concerns for the health of writers and activists - by English PEN | March 12th, 2014 English PEN shares PEN International’s grave concern for the health of blogger Dinh Dang Dinh who is suffering from end-stage stomach cancer and was transferred to hospital on 15 February 2014. PEN is also seriously concerned for the health of poet, essayist, scholar and Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly, and writer […]
  • Vietnam: Targeting bloggers - Reporters sans frontières 03.12.2014 Ministry of Information and Communications Internet regulation is the ministry’s prerogative. The office in charge of the task is the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information. The ministry prepares and proposes laws that allow authorities to justify to the international community prosecutions of bloggers and cyber-dissidents. In order to avoid submitting […]