Vietnamese Petitioner Sets Himself on Fire Outside Government Office- Vietnamese petitioner Bui Huu Tuan lies badly burned after setting himself on fire outside a government office in Hanoi, July 2, 2018. RFA, July 2, 2018 A Vietnamese man frustrated by the outcome of a court case set himself ablaze in a protest Monday morning outside a government inspection office in the capital Hanoi, […]
Prisoner of Conscience Hoang Duc Binh Transferred Far from His Family- Defend the Defenders, July 2, 2018 Vietnameseauthorities have transferred labor activist and environmental campaigner Hoang Duc Binh to An Diem prison camp in the central province of Quang Nam, about 550 km from his family. Authorities in his native province of Nghe An didnot inform his family about the transfer, Hoang Nguyen, younger […]
Child sexual abuse preventions need to go beyond empty slogans-Viet Nam News/Asia News Network, July 1, 2018 HANOI — Last month, a wave of public outrage swept the internet over a court’s ruling to give a 78-year-old child sexual abuser a lenient 18-month probation sentence in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. The outcry led to an unprecedented move by HCM City’s […]
“Minds” over Facebook: Vietnamese Netizens’ Great Cyber Exodus?-Photo Credit: Adorkableaznbunny Vi Tran, The Vietnamese, June 30, 2018 In the past two days, the “F-Generation” of Vietnam started what seems to be an online exodus when many well-known Facebookers announced that they are moving on to Minds.com – an alternate platform for social media. The “F” in F-Generation stands for “Facebook” as […]
Black Sundays Report: Vietnamese People’s Response To Police Brutality During June 2018 Protests-Photo Credit: Nhật Ký Biểu Tình/Protestors’ Diary Facebook Page The Vietnamese, June 29, 2018 Civilians, victims of police brutality and arbitrary detention, academics, activists, researchers, and a lot more people from all walks of life inside and outside of Vietnam got together and produced a report on the two “Black Sundays” of June 10 […]
One Year After Mother Mushroom’s Imprisonment, Signs of Hope in Vietnam-Despite rising repression, the democratic awakening of the Vietnamese people continues. The Diplomat, June 29, 2018 One year ago on June 29, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh found herself in prison, staring down a 10-year sentence. It has not been an easy year. Far from it. Prison authorities have made life unnecessarily difficult for Quynh, withholding […]
Prisoner of Conscience Hoang Duc Binh Transferred Far from His Family - Defend the Defenders, July 2, 2018 Vietnameseauthorities have transferred labor activist and environmental campaigner Hoang Duc Binh to An Diem prison camp in the central province of Quang Nam, about 550 km from his family. Authorities in his native province of Nghe An didnot inform his family about the transfer, Hoang Nguyen, younger […]
Người nhà hoạt động Đài Loan và Việt Nam hợp tác để đòi công lý cho các nạn nhân của thảm họa Formosa - Maritime Herald, ngày 28/6/2018 (Bản dịch của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền) Năm 2016, chất thải độc hại từ nhà máy thép Formosa, thuộc sở hữu của chủ sở hữu Đài Loan, gây ra một thảm họa lớn ở ven biển miềnTrung của Việt Nam. Hai năm sau, với việc nhiều người hoạt động bị cầm tù và sinh kế của […]
Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Report for June 25-July 1, 2018: Under-covered Policemen Maintain Week-lasting Persecution against Labor Activist Do Thi Minh Hanh - Defend the Defenders | July 1, 2018 Plainclothes agents in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong are continously terrorizing labor activist and former prisoner of conscience Do Thi Minh Hanh and her old father for whole week. Along with assaulting her on streets, under-covered policemen attack her by throwing stones and bricks […]
Black Sundays Report: Vietnamese People’s Response To Police Brutality During June 2018 Protests - Photo Credit: Nhật Ký Biểu Tình/Protestors’ Diary Facebook Page The Vietnamese, June 29, 2018 Civilians, victims of police brutality and arbitrary detention, academics, activists, researchers, and a lot more people from all walks of life inside and outside of Vietnam got together and produced a report on the two “Black Sundays” of June 10 […]
Luật An ninh mạng gây quan ngại về quyền con người, gây ảnh hưởng xấu cho Việt Nam trong thương mại tự do - The Daily Signal, ngày 28/6/2018 (Bản dịch của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền) Quốc hội Việt Nam gần đây đã thông qua một chính sách quản lý mạng, theo đó, luật An ninh mạng vừa được phê chuẩn sẽ hạn chế đáng kể quyền tự do ngôn luận, và nó sẽ tác động đến một […]
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