June 5, 2014
HRW: WORLD REPORT 2014 – Vietnam
HRW | June 4, 2014 World Report 2014 is Human Rights Watch’s 24th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events through November 2013. Reflecting on the “Rights Struggles of 2013,” Executive Director Kenneth Roth highlights the […]
June 13, 2014
Vietnam hears blogger’s appeal in secret, affirms prison term
by HR Defender • [Human Rights], Pham Viet Dao
VNRN | June 13, 2014 The closed appeal affirmed the 15-month sentence against blogger Pham Viet Dao, 62, a former Vietnamese Communist Party member and government official. He had been convicted under Article 258 of Vietnam’s penal code for allegedly “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the State.” A week before, his wife and children […]