Vietnam: A Police State Where One-In-Six Works For Security Forces-By Palash Ghosh | IB Times August 29 2013 Vietnam, one of the five remaining Communist nations in the world, takes its security very seriously. So seriously in fact that an estimated one in six working people in the Southeast Asian country are employed either full- or part-time in the massive state security network. According to […]
What are the 30 human rights?-1. We Are All Born Free & Equal. We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way. 2. Don’t Discriminate. These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences. 3. The Right to Life. We all have the right to life, and to […]
Tuyên bố chung của Liên minh Tự do Internet về Nghị định 72/2013/NĐ-CP của CHXHCN Việt Nam-Bản dịch của Lê Thiên Hà (Defend the Defenders) Marie Harf, Phó Phát ngôn viên, Văn phòng Phát ngôn viên, Washington, DC Ngày 26/08/2013 Liên minh Tự do Internet (Freedom Online Coalition) bày tỏ mối quan ngại sâu sắc trước việc Việt Nam loan báo về Nghị định 72, một nghị định sẽ áp đặt những hạn chế ngặt […]
Vietnam’s bloggers challenging one party rule-BBC | Jonathan London August 21, 2013 After years of conflict and hardship, Vietnam has emerged as Asia’s newest industrialising economy – but social and economic change present challenges to one-party rule, among them the vibrant blogging scene. Vietnam specialist Jonathan London charts the state’s pursuit of bloggers in Vietnam’s newly fluid political scene.
Vietnam’s conflicted human rights policy-By Carlyle A. Thayer | August 2013 Vietnam’s human rights policy is marked by contradictions and paradox—by increased openness and continued repression. Any assessment of human rights and religious freedom in contemporary Vietnam must confront contradictions in policy implementation and a major paradox.
Hanoi reduces sentences for two activists, but continues to suppress dissent-N. Hung | Asia News | August 19, 2013 The 21 year-old Catholic Nguyen Phuong Uyen will be released from jail. Sentence reduced from eight to four years for the second accused, the 26 year old Nguyen Dinh Kha. Hanoi had promised an “open” trial but at least 400 policemen guarded the building and refused […]
DEFENCE RIGHTS VIOLATED AT TWO BLOGGERS’ APPEAL HEARING-Reporters Sans Frontieres FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 2013. An appeal court in the southern province of Long An today reduced blogger Dinh Nguyen Kha’s sentence from eight to four years in prison, and reduced fellow blogger Nguyen Phuong Uyen’s sentence from six years in prison to a suspended sentence of three years in prison. Both sentences still include three years of house […]
Vietnam frees student activist in rare appeal ruling-AFP | August 16, 2013 08:31 A Vietnamese court on Friday overturned a six-year jail term handed to a student activist, freeing her on the spot in a rare show of leniency by the authoritarian nation. The verdict which freed 21-year-old Nguyen Phuong Uyen on appeal was so unexpected — Vietnam’s courts routinely reject pleas by […]
Where Are You Now, Beloved Little Sister?-Translated by Chấn Minh Người Buôn Gió (The Wind Trader) Tuesday, August 3, 2013. Could it be that she was the victim of an attempt to stop people from communicating, a few years ago, before the release of Government Decree No. CP 72* ?
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