Mother of jailed Vietnam activist warns on trade pact-Friday, 17 January 2014 01:12| Written by AFP – The Guardian THE mother of a jailed Vietnamese labor activist appealed Thursday for the United States to use a Pacific trade pact as pressure to end what rights groups call widespread violations. The mother of Do Thi Minh Hanh, one of three organizers at a shoe […]
Vietnam Activists Want Association to Address Public Complaints-Reported by An Nguyen and Mac Lam for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Translated by Viet Ha. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink. A group of activists in Vietnam are moving to launch a nationwide association to help address public complaints against government land grabs, police brutality, and corruption among officials in the one-party Communist state. The […]
Buddhist youth leader Lê Công Câu under house arrest in Hue-Last Update 2 January 2014 On the morning of January 1, 2014, security police arrested Vietnamese human rights defender and head of the Buddhist Youth Movement (BYM), Lê Công Cau, at Phu Bai Airport near Hue after he boarded a plane bound for Ho Chi Minh City. FIDH and its member organization the Vietnam Committee […]
Vietnamese Authorities Detain Former Political Prisoners Visiting Fellow Dissident-Reported by An Nguyen for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. On 31 Dec, 2013. Vietnamese authorities on Tuesday detained and interrogated three former political prisoners, beating one of them severely, as they traveled to visit a fellow ex-prisoner of conscience at his home outside the capital, a member of the group […]
Tình trạng hiện nay của 3 người Việt bị cảnh sát Thái bắt giam-RFA | Ngày 19/12/2013 Như tin Đài Á Châu Tự Do đã loan, vào hôm 13 tháng 12 vừa qua, theo yêu cầu của an ninh Việt Nam, cảnh sát thái lan đã bắt giữ 3 người Việt tị nạn chính trị, đó là các ông Trương Quốc Huy, Phạm Mạnh Hùng và Lê Văn […]
Support Press Freedom In Vietnam-Global Giving | December 18, 2013 Summary After China, Vietnam imprisons the highest number of bloggers and cyber-dissidents for reporting independently of the government-run media. Vietnamese bloggers are the only source of independent news in the country. Reporters Without Borders seeks support to provide them equipment and ensure information security through the purchase of computer software and […]
Joint Press Availability With Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh-John Kerry Secretary of State Government Guest House Hanoi, Vietnam December 16, 2013 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Excellency John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh, ladies and gentlemen, correspondents; you may now have the honor to introduce Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh […]
BLOGGERS CELEBRATED IN PARIS, ARRESTED AND BEATEN IN VIETNAM-RSF | PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 16 DECEMBER 2013 The political police have been arresting and mistreating bloggers in Vietnam in recent days, both before and after an 8 December ceremony in Paris at which the Vietnam Human Rights Network and the France-Vietnam Solidarity Association paid tribute to Vietnamese bloggers. Three activists in the fight for freedom, human […]
Report on Suppression of Bloggers Celebrating International HR Day in Vietnam-Phạm Đoan Trang, Ngày 12/12/2013 Summary This report, compiled by the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers 1, aims to provide a full description of acts of oppression by the Vietnamese authorities against some citizens who peacefully exercised their right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in celebration of the International Human Rights Day on December […]
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