GENERAL

  • Vietnam Allows Visit by Amnesty International - By GERRY MULLANY – Published: March 6, 2013 HONG KONG — The Vietnamese government has opened a dialogue with Amnesty International, allowing the human rights group to meet with crucial dissidents and government officials in the first such contacts since the end of the Vietnam War, Amnesty said Wednesday. The dialogue comes as Vietnam begins drafting a constitution that […]
  • 2013 International Women of Courage Award Winners - Office of Global Women’s Issues March 4, 2013 Ta Phong Tan, Blogger Vietnam Ta Phong Tan, a ground-breaking blogger currently serving a 10 year prison sentence with two additional years of house arrest. Ms. Tan is a former Vietnamese Communist Party member and former officer in the Vietnamese security forces. After publishing online articles criticizing […]
  • The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – Concerning Nguyen Hoang Quoc Hung, Do Thi Minh Hanh and Doan Huy Chuong - See full document here [subscribe2]
  • Declaration of Free Citizens - We, the undersigned, call upon our fellow citizens to join us in declaring: 1. We not only want to abolish Article 4 in the Constitution, but also to have a Constitutional Congress to establish a new constitution that truly reflects the will of our people, not the will of the communist party as currently in the […]
  • DECREE No. 63/2007/ND-CP OF APRIL 10, 2007, PROVIDING FOR SANCTIONING OF ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS IN THE DOMAIN OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - See full Decree No. 63/2007/ND-CP
  • Blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh is nominated for the Netizen prize 2013 - One of Vietnam’s most influential bloggers, Huynh Ngoc Chenh does not hesitate to criticize the government and defend freedom of expression. Born in 1952 in the central province of Da Nang, Chenh joined the newspaper Thanh Nien in 1992, first as a reporter and then in senior positions until his retirement in April 2012. He […]
  • The Law Society of Upper Canada Expresses Grave Concerns about the Arrest and Detention of Human Rights Lawyer Le Quoc Quan - The Law Society of Upper Canada is gravely concerned about the arrest and detention of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan in Vietnam. Reliable reports indicate that on December 27, 2012, Le Quoc Quan, human rights lawyer and blogger, was arrested by the police while dropping off his daughter at school. The police advised the […]
  • HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH – VIETNAM REPORT 2013 - The Vietnam government systematically suppresses freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, and persecutes those who question government policies, expose official corruption, or call for democratic alternatives to one-party rule. Police harass and intimidate activists and their family members. Authorities arbitrarily arrest activists, hold them incommunicado for long periods without access to legal counsel or […]
  • Support our Campaign: We Are All Vietnamese Bloggers! - Điếu Cày is a 60-year-old Vietnamese blogger. In 2007, he wrote the text published below. Four months later, he was arrested and convicted. In 2012 he was subsequently sentenced to 12 years in jail. Why? Because he wrote about freedom in Vietnam on his blog. Traduction: With passion, patriotism and a will to serve our country, […]
  • CPJ – ATTACKS ON THE PRESS in 2012 - Vietnam Vietnam intensified its grip on old and new media through a campaign of censorship, surveillance, and imprisonments. Central Propaganda Department officials held weekly meetings with top newspaper editors, outlining news agendas and identifying banned topics. The list of prohibited topics expanded to include criticism of the government’s economic management, land conflicts between the state and local […]