Rights groups snub Vietnam prisoner over hunger strike-For political prisoners in authoritarian Vietnam, sometimes a hunger strike is the only tool they have left Asia Times, January 17, 2021 “Only skin and bone, but his mind is very strong.” This is how Vietnamese political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc’s family described his condition after their most recent visit with him. Thuc […]
Vietnam’s Prisoners of Conscience: ‘Like Fish Under the Blade’-Leading partners including the United States and European Union can and should do more to discourage Vietnam’s fierce crackdown on dissent. The Diplomat, January 18, 2021 “We are like fish under the blade, always ready to be arrested,” Vietnamese journalist and dissident Pham Chi Dung said in 2015. “Up until 2012, if you were arrested, […]
Vietnam steps up ‘chilling’ crackdown on dissent ahead of key Communist Party congress-Reuters, January 18, 2021 As Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party gears up for its most important meeting in years, its leadership has presided over an intensified crackdown on dissent, according to rights groups, activists and data collated by Reuters. A record number of political prisoners, longer jail terms, and increased harassment of activists in recent years […]
Jailed Vietnamese Democracy Advocate Hospitalized as Hunger Strike Hits Day 50-Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc is shown at his trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Jan. 20, 2010. RFA, January 14, 2021 A jailed Vietnamese democracy advocate has been hospitalized in failing health in Nghe An province after reaching the 50-day mark in a hunger strike launched to appeal for a reduction in […]
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Viet Nam: Arrests send chilling message before key Party meeting – UN experts-Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights, January 14, 2021 GENEVA (14 January 2021) – UN human rights experts said today that the heavy sentences handed down against three Vietnamese journalists and human rights defenders, just weeks ahead of a key meeting of the ruling Communist Party, sends a chilling message to human rights defenders […]
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