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  • Police Detain And Beat Vietnamese Activist Over China Battle Memorial - Dung Truong, who was beaten when he went to the police station to seek the release of another activist detained at a gathering in Hanoi to mark a deadly 1988 naval clash with China, March 14, 2018. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener. RFA, March 15, 2018 A Vietnamese activist lost two teeth in a […]
  • Vietnam: UN experts concerned by threats against factory workers and labour activists - Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights GENEVA (20 March 2018) – UN human rights experts* express their concern about reports that women workers at two Samsung Electronics factories in Viet Nam, as well as labour activists, have been subjected to intimidation and harassment after they raised concerns about working conditions at the plants. Among […]
  • Attack on Hmong Christians Underscores Vietnam Religious Freedom Shortcomings - RFA, March 20, 2018 File photo of minority ethnic Hmong hill tribespeople selling puppies as pets at the weekly Sunday market in Bac Ha town, in the mountainous northern province of Lao Cai, Vietnam. AFP An incident early this month in which 24 Hmong Christians in Vietnam’s northwestern highlands were attacked by a mob led […]
  • Vietnam Transfers Political Prisoner Nguyen Van Oai to Remote Jail - RFA, March 19, 2018 Nguyen Van Oai calls for the release of jailed pro-democracy lawyer Nguyen Van Dai in an undated photo. Viet Tan Vietnamese authorities have transferred prisoner of conscience Nguyen Van Oai to a remote prison far from his wife and hometown with notifying his family, his wife told RFa’s Vietnamese Service on […]
  • Hmong : Sectarian Violence in Vietnam Amidst Restrictions on Freedom of Religion - UNPO, March 19, 2018 Vietnam has recently introduced measures further restricting freedom of religion in the country. Some 40% of the Hmong are said to be Christians, representing a much higher proportion than in other Vietnamese ethnic groups. In this context, the Vietnamese government’s failure to protect its minorities and religious freedom is once again […]
  • Ô nhiễm môi trường nước: gian nan cuộc đấu tranh của người dân - Hàn Giang, Việt Nam Thời báo, ngày 20/3/2018 Ô nhiễm môi trường nước, ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng đến cuộc sống khiến người dân bức xúc liên tục biểu tình, bất chấp việc có người bị công an mời làm việc hoặc có người bị bắt bỏ tù và đây cũng là một trong những vấn […]
  • Kiểm soát tư tưởng bằng AL: Việt Nam sẽ sớm theo chân TQ? - Ánh Liên- Việt Nam Thời báo, ngày 20/3/2018 Ngày 1.5 tới đây, hơn 9 triệu người Trung Quốc sẽ không thể mua vé máy bay, xe lửa vì bị chấm điểm xấu. Hệ thống chấm điểm này sẽ liệt kê những hành vi gây hại với cộng đồng như tung tin giả, gây rối, hút […]
  • Beating activist unconscious, police waging vendetta - Kate Chesterson, Vietnam Thời báo, ngày 19/3/2018 Via his wife and our Facebook posting thereafter – not until 10 pm, March 14th, 2018 did everybody learn about the incident that activist Truong Van Dung had been beaten unconscious. Unable to communicate with him verbally, Mrs. Hop, his wife, initially believed Dung had been knocked unconscious […]
  • TNLT Nguyễn Văn Túc: Không nói, không nghe, không làm việc! - Việt Nam Thời báo, ngày 19/3/2018 Gia đình nhà Tù nhân lương tâm (TNLT) Nguyễn Văn Túc (SN 1964, đăng ký hộ khẩu thường trú tại thôn Cổ Dũng 1, xã Đông La, huyện Đông Hưng, tỉnh Thái Bình) cho dư luận quan tâm được biết, Tòa án và Viện kiểm sát chỉ định luật […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Report March 12-18, 2018: One Activist Beaten, Two Detained while Many Others under House Arrest on 30th Anniversary of Gac Ma Loss to China - Defend the Defenders | March 18, 2018 On March 14, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the loss of Gac Ma (South Johnson Reef) in the East Sea (South China Sea) to China, many Vietnamese activists planned to hold commemoration for 64 naval soldiers who were killed by China’s naval forces during the […]