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  • Five years after deadly Vietnamese land dispute, victims claim harassment - A man believed to be a plainclothes officer monitors an event to honor slain activist Le Dinh Kinh at his tomb outside of Hanoi, Jan. 27, 2021. (Nguyen Thi Duyen) It has been five years since the Vietnamese government sent about 3,000 riot police into Dong Tam commune, where they shot dead Le Dinh Kinh and […]
  • Bodyguard for Vietnamese monk controls his every move - Vietnamese monk Thich Minh Tue is followed by his bodyguard Doan Van Bau, right, as he walks through Thailand on his way to India, in January 2025. As Thich Minh Tue, the Vietnamese monk who became an internet star last year, treks across Thailand on a pilgrimage to India, one man walking behind him in […]
  • Vietnam punishes social media poster for complaining about traffic rules - Motorists wait at a red light at an intersection in Hanoi on Jan. 8, 2025. (Nhac Ngu/AFP) Vietnam’s tough new traffic rules have come in for a rough ride on the information superhighway. The regulations came into force at the beginning of the year, with steep penalties for running red lights, riding motorbikes on sidewalks or […]
  • International rights group calls out democracies for ignoring allies’ abuses - Activist known as ‘Grandma Wong’ is surrounded by police outside court on Feb. 1, 2024, the verdict day of a trial involving protesters who stormed the Legislative Council during the pro-democracy protests in 2019, in Hong Kong. (Louise Delmotte/AP) Democratic governments around the world need to do more to take authoritarian regimes to task after 2024 […]
  • Vietnam asks Y Quynh Bdap’s family to urge his surrender ahead of appeal trial - Quynh Bdap was one of the founders Montagnards Stand for Justice Vietnamese authorities have asked the family of an ethnic Ede activist Hanoi convicted of “terrorism” in absentia to convince him to surrender instead of appealing the decision to extradite him from Thailand later this month, his family told RFA. A human rights expert told […]
  • Vietnamese court jails lawyer for 3 years over Facebook posts - Hanoi lawyer Tran Dinh Trien. (Ministry of Public Security) Vietnamese court jails lawyer for 3 years over Facebook posts A court in Vietnam sentenced on Friday a prominent lawyer to three years in prison for Facebook posts criticizing a former chief justice that the supreme court said contained fabricated content, state media reported. Tran Dinh Trien […]
  • Vietnam fines TikTok user $1,200 for criticizing Ho Chi Minh’s personal life - A man watches a video on misinformation on the social media platform TikTok on his mobile phone in Hanoi on Oct. 6, 2023. (Nhac Nguyen/AFP) Police in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang fined a resident 30 million dong (about US$1,200) for suggesting on social media that the country’s first president Ho Chi Minh had many […]
  • Vietnamese Facebookers face prosecution for posts - A Facebook user logs in on his mobile at a cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam November 19, 2020. (KHAM/Reuters) Two Vietnamese social media users face unspecified punishment after police pulled them in for questioning for posts they said insulted the police and government agencies, according to state media. The Binh Phuoc newspaper, the mouthpiece of authorities in […]
  • Hoạ sĩ Lê Quốc Anh tố cáo Công an đánh đập khi bị tạm giữ, cha mẹ liên tục bị sách nhiễu - Ông Lê Quốc Anh và giấy mời bố ông lên đồn công an làm việc ngày 18/12/2024 Hoạ sĩ Lê Quốc Anh, người đang bị Công an Tiền Giang truy nã về cáo buộc “tuyên truyền chống Nhà nước,” tố cáo lực lượng an ninh tỉnh này đã đánh đập, xúc phạm ông nhiều ngày trong thời […]
  • Prominent Vietnamese writer in hiding says police are harassing his family - Vietnamese writer and karate artist Doan Bao Chau in an undated photo. (Chau Doan via Facebook) A prominent Vietnamese writer and karate artist who is hiding and wanted by police said Monday that authorities are harassing his family to try to find out his whereabouts. Doan Bao Chau, 59, faces prosecution for Facebook posts and interviews […]