HCM City Court to Try American Michael and Two Vietnamese Activists on Subversion Accusation-Defend the Defenders, June 9, 2019 The People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City will hold the first-instance hearing on June 24-25 to try Vietnamese American Michael Minh Phuong Nguyen and two local activists named Huynh Duc Thanh Binh and Tran Long Phi on allegation of “Activities against the people’s government” under Article 109 […]
Vietnamese Activist to be Deported From U.S. After Seven-Country Asylum-Seeking Odyssey-Ha Van Thanh (in helmet) participates in protests over the Formosa disaster in Nghe An, Vietnam. Courtesy of FB Nguyễn Đình Thuc RFA, June 7, 2019 A Vietnamese activist on the run is facing possible deportation from the U.S. back to Vietnam after fleeing the country and embarking on a journey through seven countries in […]
Vietnam’s Court Sentences Activist to Six Years in Prison for Facebook Posts-Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), June 6, 2019 For Facebook posts on environment and democracy, Vietnamese activist Nguyen Ngoc Anh was sentenced to six years inprisontoday(June6). The decision was handed down by the People’s Court of Ben Tre province during the one-day trial. Mr.Anh, 39, was charged with a national security offense under Article […]
Viet Nam: Sham trial shows authorities ‘abusing Facebook’ to silence criticism-Amnesty International, June 5, 2019 Ahead of the court hearing in the case of Nguyen Ngoc Anh tomorrow, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southeast Asia, said: The sham charges levelled against Nguyen Ngoc Anh show that no one is safe on Facebook in Vietnam. “The sham charges levelled against Nguyen Ngoc […]
Vietnam: Dissident Targeted for Facebook Posts- Human Rights Watch, June 5, 2019 (New York) – An environmental activist faces a show trial for his Facebook posts, as part of Vietnam’s continuing attack on freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The Vietnamese government should immediately release the activist, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, and drop all charges against him. Nguyen […]
Vietnam: Putting Up with Facebook-Vi Tran, SEAPA, June 03, 2019 “No, no. I think Facebook is worse than your communist government.” That was a retort from a friend of mine, a foreign researcher on international laws on human rights, after hearing me comparing Facebook’s handling of its content restriction policies to the authoritarian ruling style of the Vietnamese regime. […]
Vietnamese activists call for end to travel restrictions-Plainclothes Vietnamese police station themselves in front of the house of Hua Phi, leader of an unapproved Cao Dai group, in Lam Dong province’s Duc Trong district on May 12. (Photo courtesy of Hua Phi) Priests, pastors and activists launch national campaign over violations of human rights UCA News, May 30, 2019 Religious leaders and activists […]
Authorities in Nghe An Arrest Local Democracy Activist, Charging Him with “Conducting Anti-state Propaganda”- Defend the Defenders, May 30, 2019 On May 29, security forces in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An arrested Mr. Nguyen Nang Tinh, a lecturer of the Nghe An College for Culture and Art, and charged him with “Making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist […]
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