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  • Activists Call for Vietnamese Dissident’s Release Ahead of Trial - RFA | 2013-10-28 Detained Vietnamese activist Dinh Nhat Uy who goes on trial Tuesday for “abusing democratic freedoms” should be freed unconditionally, rights groups and his lawyer say, questioning the basis for the charge he faces and the law under which he is accused. Uy, 30, will be tried at the Long An provincial court under […]
  • Luật sư rút lui vụ Đinh Nhật Uy - BBC | 28 tháng 10, 2013 Ông Nguyễn Thanh Lương, một luật sư chuyên bào chữa cho các bị cáo liên quan đến an ninh quốc gia, cho biết ông đang ‘tự điều chỉnh cho phù hợp với tình hình’ sau khi ‘bị chính quyền nhắc nhở’. Mới đây nhất, Luật sư Lương đã quyết định […]
  • Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Internet Activist - Human Rights Watch | OCTOBER 28, 2013 (Bangkok) – Vietnam’s government should unconditionally release the social campaigner Dinh Nhat Uy, Human Rights Watch said today. He is scheduled for trial in Long An provincial court on October 29, 2013, for “abuse of democratic freedoms.” Vietnam should revoke penal code article 258, under which he was charged, and […]
  • Vinh, 7 months jail for two Catholics who fought for religious freedom - Asia News October 25, 2013 Vinh (AsiaNews) – Disappointment, anger, dismay: this is the reaction of family, priests and parishioners in My yen following the sentence imposed on two Vietnamese Catholics in prison for months, for having fought in favor of human rights and religious freedom. The entire Vietnamese Catholic community had fought for their […]
  • Indictment against Đinh Nhật Uy - Translated by Đoan Trang THE LONG AN PEOPLE’S PROCURATORATE THE PEOPLE’ PROCURATORATE OF TÂN AN CITY ———————- Code number: 120/QĐ/KSĐT THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM independence – Freedom – Happiness ———————————- Tân An, September 6, 2013 INDICTMENT The Head of the People’s Procuratorate of Tân An City   Pursuant to Articles 36, 166 and 167 of […]
  • Declaration by the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers on the prosecution and trial of Đinh Nhật Uy - The Network of Vietnamese Bloggers October 24, 2013 Whereas the People’s Procuratorate of Tân An City on September 6, 2013 released the indictment against Đinh Nhật Uy and is going to put Uy on trial on October 29, 2013, the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers asserts and declares the following, on the prosecution as well as […]
  • Vietnamese Court Orders Two Parishioners of Vinh Diocese Jailed - RFA | 2013-10-23 A court in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region on Wednesday ordered two Catholic Christians who campaigned for religious freedom jailed for “disturbing public order,” triggering outrage among family members, priests and parishioners. The court in the Nghe An provincial capital Vinh sentenced Ngo Van Khoi, 53, to seven months in prison and Nguyen […]
  • Vietnam: Revise Constitution to Protect Rights - Human Rights Watch | OCTOBER 22, 2013 Assembly Should Reform Abusive System, Endorse International Standards (New York) – Vietnam’s National Assembly should ensure that the country’s revised constitution fully meets international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the chairman of the National Assembly. Vietnam’s parliament is considering and expected to vote on constitutional […]
  • Final Investigation Records of Dinh Nhat Uy - Translated by: Huy Nguyen Proof and Edited: Nguyễn Thùy Trang & Lanney Tran | October 22, 2013 Long An Police Department – Security & Investigation Agency ——————No: 03/ANĐT Long An, August 27th, 2013 Final Investigation Records Case: Abusing the freedoms of an ordinary citizen to disrupt the government, government officials, organizations and other citizens in Tan […]
  • Jailed Vietnamese Dissident in New Hunger Strike Over Artwork Seizure - RFA | October 18, 2013 Jailed prominent Vietnamese dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu has begun another hunger strike—this time in protest against the seizure of his artwork he had drawn in prison, according to his wife. The 56-year-old Vu, who had staged a 25-day hunger strike in June and a brief fasting protest recent, began […]