Dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen is brutally beaten by Police-VIETNAM COMMITTEE – PARIS, 26 February 2014 The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights(VCHR) is deeply shocked by reports that dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen and his wife Bui Thi Kim Phuong were brutally beaten by Police as they made their way to the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on Monday 24 February. They were invited by the Embassy to report on prior […]
Vietnamese Blogger to Stand Trial on ‘Abusing’ Freedom Charges-RFA – 2014-02-25 A prominent Vietnamese blogger arrested nine months ago after he published articles critical of the government will face trial next week on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms,” according to an official indictment his family received Tuesday. Truong Duy Nhat, 50, was taken into custody on May 26 after police searched his home […]
Viet Nam: Dinh Dang Dinh’s prison sentence suspended for 12 months-OMCT – Paris-Geneva, February 25, 2014. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), welcome the decision of the Vietnamese authorities to temporarily suspend the prison sentence of human rights defender Dinh Dang Dinh, who suffers from a terminal stomach cancer. Dinh Dang […]
Vietnam: Second attack on human rights defender Mr Nguyen Bac Truyen-Posted 2014/2/25 | Front Line Defenders On 24 February 2014, at approximately 2:30pm, human rights defender Mr Nguyen Bac Truyen, along with his wife, was attacked by undercover policemen as they made their way to the Australian embassy in Hanoi. This is the second serious attack against the human rights defender this month. Nguyen Bac Truyen […]
New Constitution clarifies human and citizen rights-VNA/VietnamPlus – 24 Feb, 2014 Vietnam’s viewpoint on the recognition, respect, protection and guarantee of human rights as well as the fundamental rights and obligations of citizens has been firmly clarified in the amended Constitution, which was passed by almost all of legislators in November last year and was enforced on the first day of […]
Vietnamese Dissident Attacked in Hanoi-Tra Mi VOA, February 24, 2014 Nguyen Bac Truyen says in an interview with VOA’s Vietnamese service that he and his wife were ambushed outside the Japanese Embassy Monday. “I was attacked by four plainclothes policemen on my way … to the Australian embassy. … These men had been following me closely since I arrived at Hanoi. […]
FORMER VIETNAMESE PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE: OPEN LETTER FROM ITS CO-CHAIRMEN-Dear Vietnamese Compatriots inside Vietnam and in the Diaspora, Dear International Friends in Democratic Countries, The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) is at the present time the focus of the world at large. There are several reasons for this. First, it has recently been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (November 12, 2013) […]
THE FORMER VIETNAMESE PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE – PROCLAMATION-Dear Vietnamese Compatriots inside Vietnam and in the Diaspora, Dear International Friends in Democratic Countries, Freedom of conscience is one of the basic inalienable rights of a human being besides the freedom of thought, the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression. To live in accordance with our conscience is to live ethically, […]
Vietnamese human rights defender still imprisoned-21 Feb, 2014 – Le Quoc Quan, a human rights lawyer well known for his oppositional blog posts, remains in prison after a court in Hanoi upheld a previous sentence against him on 18 February. There was hope that Vietnam’s new found place on the UN Human Rights Council might increase pressure on the judiciary […]
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