January 29, 2016
Amnesty Int’l Urges Vietnam New Leadership to Enhance Human Rights Situation
by Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 29, 2016 The new Vietnamese leadership must urgently rehabilitate country’s appalling human rights record, said the London-based Amnesty International on Jan 28, the day the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam concluded its 12th National Congress with election of the senior leaders for the next five years. Although Vietnam is a […]






January 30, 2016
Vietnamese Human Rights Activist Detained for Months on Trumped-Up Allegation of Drug Possession
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights], Hoang Van Giang (Thanh Hoa)
By Vu Quoc Ngu, Jan 30, 2016 Human rights activist and outspoken medical doctor Hoang Van Giang from Vietnam’s central province of Thanh Hoa has been in police custody since mid-October last year on the trumped-up allegation of possessing drug, local media has reported. According to the independent SBTN newswire, Mr. Hoang Giang was arrested […]