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 […]
Manila calls China action in disputed South China Sea an ‘urgent threat’-SCMP| 11 March, 2014 Manila protested on Tuesday against Beijing’s blockade of civilian supply ships in disputed waters of the South China Sea, saying China’s latest actions “constitute a clear and urgent threat to the rights and interests of the Philippines”. China’s coastguard ships had driven away two Philippine vessels which had tried to approach […]
ENEMIES OF THE INTERNET 2014: ENTITIES AT THE HEART OF CENSORSHIP AND SURVEILLANCE-PUBLISHED, RSF | 11 MARCH 2014. This year’s “Enemies of the Internet” report, which Reporters Without Borders publishes every year on World Day Against Cyber-Censorship (12 March), spotlights the government units and agencies that implement online censorship and surveillance. These entities, which include Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority, North Korea’s Central Scientific and Technological Information Agency, Vietnam’s Ministry of […]
Illegally-detained citizens in Lap Vo received support from FVPoC, VNWHR-Tell The World By [rollinglinks]Vu Quoc Ngu[/rollinglinks] (Defend The Defenders) On Mar 10, 2014 Two independent Vietnamese organizations, the Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience (FVPOC) and the Vietnamese Women for Human Rights (VNWHR) visited those people who were illegally detained by the police forces in Lap Vo district in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, and […]
Statement by the EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2014-EUROPEAN UNION | Brussels, 8 March 2014 Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission, made today the following statement: Today, on International Women’s Day, we celebrate the real transformation the world has witnessed in women’s rights, thanks both to individual achievements and our […]
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