July 25, 2017
Vietnam Activist Beaten, Detained by Police While Picturing Police Harassment against Former Prisoner of Conscience
By Defend the Defenders, July 25, 2017 During the late evening of July 24, activist and blogger Nguyen Hieu from Vietnam’s southern city of Vung Tau was beaten, detained and interrogated by local security forces when he was filming police harassment against former prisoner of conscience Bui Thi Minh Hang. Around 9 PM of Monday, […]
July 26, 2017
Vietnam: Tran Thi Nga sentenced to nine years imprisonment
by Nhan Quyen • Tran Thi Nga (Tran Thuy Nga)
Front Line Defenders, July 25, 2017 On 25 July 2017, the People’s Court in Ha Nam, south of Hanoi, sentenced human rights defender Tran Thi Nga to nine years imprisonment followed by an additional 5 years of house arrest. She was charged under Article 88 of the Vietnamese Penal Code for “using the Internet to […]