April 20, 2017
Hoa Hao Buddhists Protest against Harassment, Beatings in Vietnam’s An Giang
Radio Free Asia, April 19, 2017 Scores of Hoa Hao Buddhists in a village in southwestern Vietnam’s An Giang province protested on Wednesday against local authorities for harassing and beating them when they gathered to pray at the home of a former prisoner of conscience. Police in Phuoc Hung village, Phuoc Hoa commune, in the […]
April 20, 2017
Beware Vietnam’s Death Machine
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
A closer look at capital punishment in the Southeast Asian state. By David Hutt, The Diplomat, April 20, 2017 One Thursday in July 2013, Barack Obama and his Vietnamese counterpart, Truong Tan Sang, sat down in the Oval Office to discuss Thomas Jefferson. Sang brought to this historic meeting between the two nation’s presidents a […]