April 25, 2014
Viet Nam – lift retaliatory travel restrictions on human rights defender
ICJ | April 25, 2014 Representatives Loretta Sanchez and Zoe Lofgren have invited Pham Chi Dung to testify before the US. Congress about media freedom on 29 April 2014. He’s also scheduled to speak at a seminar of non-governmental organizations in Washington D.C. on 1 May 2014 called “Towards a Free Media in Viet Nam.” However, […]
April 26, 2014
Vietnam Bars Bloggers From Attending U.S. Congressional Briefing
by Nhan Quyen • Huyen Trang, Nguyen Lan Thang, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Pham Chi Dung
RFA | 2014-04-25 Among them was Pham Chi Dung, whose passport has not been returned to him nearly three months after it was seized by Vietnamese authorities who prevented him from traveling to Geneva to attend a meeting on the margins of a U.N. Human Rights Council conference examining Vietnam’s human rights record. “The continued […]