GENERAL

  • Report: Dozens detained, jailed in crackdown on Vietnam bloggers - By Emily Alpert – February 12, 2013, 4:46 p.m. Nguyen Hoang Vi was knocked from her motorcycle in an accident she believes was no accident. The windows of a car she was riding in were smashed nine months later, gashing her arms, legs and face, she told activists. Last spring her passport was taken away, rights groups say. […]
  • Release of two Vietnamese human rights defenders - Last Update 8 February 2013 – On February 6, 2013, Vietnamese blogger Le Anh Hung was released from forcible internment. The latter had been kidnapped and interned in “Social Support Centre No 2” Ung Hoa, a mental hospital, on January 24, 2013. FIDH member organisation VCHR and the Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) had since then mobilised to call for his […]
  • Vietnam jails activists for subversion amid crackdown on dissidents - Pro-democracy activists convicted of trying to overthrow communist government, sparking human rights concerns. Reuters in Bangkok guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 February 2013 09.43 GMT Vietnamese activists jailed – Phan Van Thu, centre, and affiliates have been handed lengthy jail terms for subversion. Photograph: Vietnam News Agency/AFP/Getty A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to life in prison and […]
  • Vietnam detains blogger who covered corruption - Authorities have ramped up arrests of Vietnamese bloggers in recent months. (AP/Chitose Suzuki) Bangkok, February 1, 2013– In a widening crackdown on online expression, Vietnamese security officials have arrested critical independent blogger Le Anh Hung and are holding him against his will in a psychiatric institution, news reports said. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns […]
  • Buddhist dissident Thich Quang Do is nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize and receives diplomatic visits from Germany and France - PARIS, 1st February 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has been nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. The deadline for nominations to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo expires today, 1st February 2013, and the winner will be announced in mid-October. Nominations were […]
  • WORLD REPORT 2013 – Vietnam - 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 […]
  • JOINT OPEN LETTER The Observatory & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights - 2013-01-30 | The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders & Vietnam Committee on Human Rights | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights Attn: President Truong Tan Sang, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Communist Party Secretary-General Nguyen Phu Trong January 30, 2013 Re: Arbitrary internment of Le Anh Hung in “Social Support Centre No 2” […]
  • 2013 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX – Asia-Pacific Area - Burmese spring an exception to decline in freedom of information in Asia Only three Asian countries are in the top 25 percent of the table, while 15 countries are among the bottom 45 places. Unsurprisingly, one-party authoritarian governments figure more than ever among the predators of press freedom and languish at the bottom end of […]
  • CHỈ SỐ TỰ DO BÁO CHÍ THẾ GIỚI 2013 – CHÂU Á TBD: VIỆT NAM KHÔNG CÓ DẤU HIỆU CẢI THIỆN - Mùa xuân Miến Điện – một ngoại lệ trong suy thoái tự do thông tin ở châu Á Chỉ có ba nước châu Á nằm ở phần 25% đầu bảng, trong khi 15 nước khác nằm trong số 45 nước cuối bảng . Không có gì đáng ngạc nhiên khi các chính phủ độc tài […]
  • Vietnamese Blogger Le Anh Hung arrested and interned in a mental institution in Hanoi - 2013-01-26 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 26 January 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly denounces the virtual kidnapping of Vietnamese blogger Le Anh Hung and his internment in a mental institution in Hanoi. At 10.15am on Thursday 24 January, six secret security agents came to the company in Hung Yen where […]