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  • Lee & Man – hiểm họa của miền Tây - Vietnam Thời báo, ngày 06/4/2018   Formosa – kẻ gây ra ô nhiễm ở khu vực Bắc Trung Bộ, có lẽ không phải quá xa lạ với cái tên này, bởi không chỉ có báo chí mà cả mạng xã hội cũng lên tiếng, thậm chí ra đến tận nước ngoài. Nếu như Formosa nguy […]
  • Six Vietnamese bloggers get exceptionally long jail terms - RSF, April 5, 2018 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges Vietnam’s partners to press for an end to the government’s intolerable current crackdown after a Hanoi people’s court passed sentences of fifteen, nine and seven years in prison on six bloggers at the end of a summary trial today. In the seemingly endless series of trials […]
  • Fifteen years prison for Nguyen Van Dai and harsh sentences for Brotherhood for Democracy activists at an unfair in Hanoi - PARIS, 5th April 2018 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is outraged by the sentences handed down on six peaceful activists today by the Supreme People’s Court in Hanoi at a one-day trial that violated all international standards. Human rights lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài was sentenced to 15 years in prison and […]
  • Sentencing of Peaceful Activists in Vietnam - Press Statement Heather Nauert Department Spokesperson Washington, DC April 5, 2018 The United States is deeply troubled that a Vietnamese court has convicted and sentenced peaceful activists Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thu Ha, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Trung Ton, Nguyen Bac Truyen and Truong Minh Duc to harsh prison sentences under the vague charge of […]
  • Six Vietnamese Pro-democracy Activists Convicted, Sentenced to Total 66 Years in Prison and 17 Years under House Arrest - Defend the Defenders, April 5, 2018 On April 5, the People’s Court of Hanoi found six pro-democracy activists members of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy guilty of subversion, sentencing them to a total 66 years in prison and 17 years under house arrest afterward. The court made its decision in late evening of Thursday. Particularly, […]
  • Measuring what matters: a new database to track human rights performance - The launch of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative dataset promises to provide comprehensive overviews of how countries are performing on human rights commitments. ANNE-MARIE BROOK & K. CHAD CLAY & SUSAN RANDOLPH OpenGlobalRight, April 3, 2018   EFE/EPA/SHIRAAZ MOHAMED In 2015 a severe food and nutrition crisis affected southern Madagascar with 200,000 people being damaged, […]
  • Vietnam Court Holds Trial of Six Pro-democracy Activists on Alleged Subversion - Defend the Defenders, April 5, 2018 On April 5, the People’s Court of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi holds the first-instance hearing of six pro-democracy activists members of the unsanctioned Brotherhood for Democracy (BFD) on allegation of subversion under Article 79 of the country’s 1999 Penal Code. The defendants are prominent human rights attorney Nguyen […]
  • Tiếng hát bất đồng chính kiến của Mai Khôi - Người nhạc sĩ và nhà hoạt động xã hội – đôi khi được gọi là “Pussy Riot của Việt Nam” – đang thách thức một xã hội “tự kiểm duyệt” The Economist, ngày 3/4/2018 (Bản dịch của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền)   Trong những ngày của tháng 2, khán giả đã tập trung tại […]
  • Trước ngày xử “đại án dân chủ” - Nguyễn Tường Thụy, Việt Nam Thời báo, ngày 05/4/2018   Ngày 16/12/2015, Nguyễn Văn Đài (sinh năm 1969) một lần nữa bị bắt và bị khởi tố với cáo buộc tuyên truyền chống nhà nước. Cùng bị bắt với anh có Lê Thu Hà (sinh năm 1992)  Ngày 16/4/2017, khi đã hết thời hạn tạm […]
  • Mai Khoi’s dissenting voice - The musician and activist—sometimes referred to as “Vietnam’s Pussy Riot”—is challenging a “self-censoring” society Economist, Apr 3rd 2018 IN THE dying days of February, an audience gathered in the foyer of the Phu Sa Lab performing-arts space in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District. Representatives from the American embassy and other members of the diplomatic corps rubbed […]