La Viet Dung

September 22, 2016

Vietnam Court Upholds Sentences for Prominent Blogger, His Assistant

by • La Viet Dung, Nguyen Huu Vinh (Anh Ba Sam), Nguyen Huu Vinh JB, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Pham Doan Trang, Trinh Ba Tu

By Defend the Defenders, September 22, 2016 The Higher People’s Court of Vietnam on September 22 upheld the imprisonment sentences for Nguyen Huu Vinh the founder and owner of well-known independent news website Anh Ba Sam, and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy in an open appeal hearing in which the judge expelled their lawyer. […]

September 22, 2016

Vietnam Court Upholds Sentences for Prominent Blogger, His Assistant

by • La Viet Dung, Nguyen Huu Vinh (Anh Ba Sam), Nguyen Huu Vinh JB, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Pham Doan Trang

By Defend the Defenders, September 22, 2016 The Higher People’s Court of Vietnam on September 22 upheld the imprisonment sentences for Nguyen Huu Vinh the founder and owner of well-known independent news website Anh Ba Sam, and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy in an open appeal hearing in which the judge expelled their lawyer. […]

September 22, 2016

One More Vietnamese Activist Beaten While Trying to Attend Open Appeal Hearing of Prominent Blogger

by • [Human Rights], La Viet Dung

  By Defend the Defenders, September 22, 2016 On September 22, on the day of the appeal hearing of prominent blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (aka Anh Ba Sam) and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, security forces in Hanoi attacked activist La Viet Dung when he approached the court building. Mr. Dung, a member of […]

July 26, 2016

VIET NAM: SERIES OF ATTACKS ON POLITICAL ACTIVISTS, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THEIR RELATIVES MUST BE INVESTIGATED

by • Ho Thi Bich Khuong, Hoang Thi Nhu Hoa, La Viet Dung, Nguyen Trung Duc, To Oanh

Amnesty International | Jul 22, 2016 Three recent  attacks on people  who have been  deliberately knocked  off their motorbikes  appear  to be part of a wider series  of attacks against  political  activists, human  rights defenders and their relatives. Amnesty International urges the Viet Nam authorities to immediately  and impartially investigate these incidents and bring the […]

July 12, 2016

Vietnamese Activists Are Beaten by Attackers Believed Linked to the Police

by • La Viet Dung

RFA | Jul 11, 2016 Unidentified assailants attacked and beat a prominent Vietnamese protester in the capital Hanoi on Sunday, sending him to the hospital amid a recent surge of similar assaults on dissidents by plainclothes attackers believed to be linked to the police. La Viet Dung, an anti-China activist and member of a local […]

July 10, 2016

Hanoi Anti-China Activist Brutally Beaten by Plainclothes Agents after No-U Football Match

by • La Viet Dung

By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 10, 2016 On July 10, security forces in Hanoi allegedly attacked La Viet Dung, a member of No-U football team, which opposes China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea), after the team’s Sunday match. The No-U striker received serious injuries on his body and […]

May 29, 2016

Hanoi Security Forces Detain Many Environmentalists for Street Sit-in Demonstration Related to Mass Killing of Aquatic Species in Central Coastal Region

by • [Human Rights], Dang Bich Phuong, La Viet Dung, Nguyen Thuy Hanh, Nguyen Van Phuong, Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga), Truong Dung

By Vu Quoc Ngu, March 29, 2016 Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on May 29 detained a number of environmental activists who conducted a street sit-in demonstration in the city’s center for government’s transparency in the mass killing of aquatic species in the country’s central offshore. Among detainees are bloggers La Viet […]

May 24, 2013

APPEAL COURT UPHOLDS JAIL TIME FOR FIVE BLOGGERS

by • 17 Catholic youths, Bui Thi Minh Hang, Dinh Nguyen Kha, Ho Duc Hoa, Ho Van Oanh, La Viet Dung, Le Van Son (Paulus Le Son), Nguyen Dinh Cuong, Nguyen Phuong Uyen, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nguyen Xuan Anh, Thai Van Dung, Tran Minh Nhat, Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga), Tu Anh Tu

Reporters Sans Frontieres PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY 23 MAY 2013. A court in the northern city of Vinh on today ruled on the appeals by five bloggers – Ho Duc Hoa,Paulus Le Van Son, Nguyen Van Duyet, Thai Van Dung and Tran Minh Nhat – against their long jail terms, upholding the existing sentences for three of them and reducing the sentences of […]