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  • VIETNAM: Pro-democracy blogger Dieu Cay is on hunger strike - PARIS-GENEVA, 19 July 2013 (OBSERVATORY & VCHR) – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), express deep concern for the health of human rights defender Mr. Nguyen […]
  • GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS INCREASE IN NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE SEEKING ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA - By Jane Norman and staff, ABC News | Updated July 17, 2013, 4:51 pm Immigration Department figures show a sharp rise in the number of Vietnamese people seeking asylum in Australia. Yesterday a boat carrying 84 people – mainly Vietnamese – was intercepted in waters 50 kilometres away from the Kimberley town of Broome. 
  • Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls on President Obama to press Vietnamese leader on democracy for Vietnam - For the upcoming visit of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to Washington D.C. PARIS, 18.7.2013 (IBIB) – The Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Quang Do has written to the United States’ President Barack Obama, calling on him to raise issues of democracy and human rights in his coming meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on […]
  • Sir Graham raises Vietnam human rights concerns with EU foreign affairs chief - 17/07/2013 | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party. ALDE Party President Sir Graham Watson MEP has written to EU foreign affairs High Representative Baroness Catherine Ashton together with other MEPs from across political parties to raise concerns about human rights abuses and internet censorship in Vietnam.
  • Fresh Appeal for Long-Serving Vietnamese Political Prisoner’s Release - 2013-07-16 | Reported by An Nguyen for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink.  The son of one of Vietnam’s longest-serving political prisoners, Nguyen Huu Cau, who is in weak health, has warned that his father could die in prison as a new petition was sent to President Truong San seeking his freedom. “He […]
  • Internet Censorship Is Taking Root in Southeast Asia - By Charlie Campbell  July 18, 2013 World Times. com Every time Le Anh Hung starts to write he thinks of his three young children. The 38-year-old has already been imprisoned twice for blogging about human rights and corruption from his home in Hanoi and lives half-expecting another fateful knock at the door. And yet “I’m not scared,” he […]
  • Time to admit wrong in Vietnam - The Washington Times | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 By LT. COL. DOMINIK GEORGE NARGELE, U.S. Marine Corps, retired Once again there is a communist show trial going on in Vietnam. The distinguished lawyer, Le Quoc Quan, who has American ties, was arrested in December after he wrote a column for the BBC’s website in which he argued for […]
  • Jailed Vietnamese Blogger in Fourth Week of Hunger Strike - Mac Lam, RFA | 17 Jul, 2013 One of Vietnam’s most prominent jailed dissidents, blogger Nguyen Van Hai, has gone on a hunger strike amid concerns over his prison treatment,  his ex-wife said Wednesday, highlighting a trend of fasting protests by political prisoners in the one-party Communist state. Hai, popularly known by his pen name […]
  • Vietnam: Letter Sent To High Representative Catherine Ashton ahead of Trial of Human Rights Defender Le Quoc Quan - Salem-News 9 July 2013 (YORK, UK) – Prominent Vietnamese lawyer, blogger and human rights defender Mr. Le Quoc Quan, was the subject of unlawful arrest and detention. Mr. Le Quoc Quan is currently arbitrarily detained due to having exercised his right to freedom of expression, his right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, as […]
  • Vietnam: Update – Trial of human rights defender Mr Le Quoc Quan postponed indefinitely - Front Line Defenders 12 July 2013 On 8 July 2013, the Vietnamese authorities decided to postpone the trial of Le Quoc Quan indefinitely. The trial was supposed to be held at the People’s Court of Hanoi on 9 July 2013. The explanation given was that the judge was not feeling well. Under Vietnamese law, a postponed trial […]