Vietnamese Dissidents Attacked by Police-Linked Thugs-Reported by Mac Lam for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. 2013-04-09. Unidentified assailants believed to be connected to the police on Tuesday ambushed and severely beat a Vietnamese dissident a day after he tried to shield a prominent woman land rights activist from harassment and attack by suspected government agents, according […]
Vietnam Crony Communists Resist Constitution Backlash-On April 08, 2013 – While filming a documentary about Ho Chi Minh as his compatriots battled U.S. forces in the 1960s, Tran Van Tan observed how the Communist leader’s embrace of a simple lifestyle endeared him to Vietnam’s poor. Five decades later, Tan says the Communist Party’s leaders are more concerned with enriching themselves […]
Vietnamese Folk Hero Gets Five-Year Sentence-April 5, 2013, 12:57 p.m. ET – By JAMES HOOKWAY And NGUYEN ANH THU HAIPHONG, Vietnam – Two Vietnamese fish farmers who laid mines and fired homemade guns at police attempting to evict them were convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Friday in a case that has cast a spotlight on the contentious issue […]
Buddhist blogger Huynh Ngoc Tuan and family subjected to harassment-2013-04-06 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 6 April 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – Prominent Buddhist blogger and writer Huynh Ngoc Tuan informs the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights(VCHR) that on 3 April 2013, he was the victim of harassment by unknown men, presumably hired hands of the local security forces. At midnight, he suddenly heard a […]
Vietnamese ‘Folk Hero’ Gets Five Years for Defending Farm-A court in northern Vietnam on Friday sentenced a former soldier-turned farmer and his family members up to five years in prison for putting up an armed fight against security forces who evicted them from their farm in a case highlighting public resentment over government land grabs. The Hai Phong People’s Court delivered unexpectedly “lenient” […]
Declaration: Justice for Doan Van Vuon-Doan Van Vuon and relatives at the court (photo of TTXVN) (Translated by Doan Trang) Whereas, in the legal case of Doan Van Vuon (name in Vietnamese: Đoàn Văn Vươn), the local authority of Tien Lang (Tiên Lãng) district, Hai Phong (Hải Phòng) has committed a great many wrongdoings in performing “official duty”, violating the principle […]
Vietnamese Authorities’ Violations of Our Family’s Civil Liberties and Human Rights-Translated by Lê Anh Hùng (Defend the Defenders) Quang Nam, 31 Mar, 2013 I am Huynh Trong Hieu, aged 24, currently living in Tam Ky City, Quang Nam province; my home phone number is 05103858736. I shall present here those harassments that the Vietnamese authorities have inflicted upon our family so far. On 27 October 1992, my father, Huynh […]
News: VIETNAM: Fears for the health of imprisoned writer and activist.-RAN 14/13 28 March 2013 – PEN International is seriously concerned for the health of writer and activist Nguyen Huu Cau, who is seriously ill and denied adequate medical care in the prison camp where he is serving a life-time sentence for his critical writings. PEN International protests his imprisonment, and demands his immediate and […]
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