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  • Vietnam Catholic Parish Requested to Demolish Christmas Cave - By Defend the Defenders, December 15, 2017 Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have requested the Catholic community in the Dong Kieu parish in Dien My commune, Dien Chau to demolish its Christmas cave the local followers have built to celebrate the upcoming Christmas and New Year holiday. Earlier this week, police came […]
  • Human rights: Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador - Vietnam must free blogger Nguyen Van Hoa Cambodian government must allow the opposition to run in 2018 elections El Salvador must free women prosecuted for miscarriage and decriminalise abortion Euro Parliament, December 14, 2017 MEPs call for the release of Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hoa, the reinstatement of Cambodian opposition lawmakers, and the decriminalisation of […]
  • MEPs call for release of all citizen-journalists held in Vietnam - Reporters Without Borders, December 14, 2017 In an emergency resolution approved today, the European Parliament has condemned the Vietnamese government’s unprecedented crackdown on the freedom to inform and, inter alia, has called for the immediate release of a young blogger who was sentenced to seven years in prison last month. Passed by a very big […]
  • Uỷ ban Bảo vệ Ký giả (CPJ): rất nhiều nhà báo trên thế giới bị cầm tù - Thời báo New York, ngày 14/12/2017 (Bản dịch của Người Bảo vệ Nhân quyền) Việt Nam hiện đang giam giữ 10 nhà báo, theo báo cáo mới nhất của CPJ. Theo một báo cáo mới nhất của Uỷ ban Bảo vệ Ký giả (Committee to Protect Journalists- CPJ), số lượng các nhà báo bị bỏ […]
  • APRRN: An open letter to the Indonesian president - wikimedia/Haeferl/CC BY-SA Dear President Joko Widodo, I am writing to you from the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a network of more than 300 civil society organisations and individuals from 28 countries committed to advancing the rights of refugees across the Asia-Pacific region. As a network committed to refugee rights protection, APRRN urges the […]
  • Indonesia Deports Vietnamese Asylum Seekers as Rights Group Cries Foul - Jakarta Globe, December 14, 2017 Jakarta. Indonesia’s immigration authorities deported four Vietnamese asylum seekers on Wednesday (13/12) despite protests from a rights group that argued the Vietnamese are facing a real threat of persecution back in their home country. The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, or APRRN, wrote an open letter to President Joko “Jokowi” […]
  • Indonesia kết án tù thêm ba ngư dân Việt Nam - RFA, 14-12-2017 Thêm ba thuyền trưởng tàu cá Việt Nam vừa bị tòa án Indonesia tuyên phạt từ 4 đến 5 tháng tù giam, vào ngày 13 tháng 12 năm 2017. Ba thuyền trưởng này gồm các ông Lê Quang Ngọt, Đặng Văn Út, mỗi người chịu 4 tháng tù, ông Lê Hữu Lợi bị […]
  • OceanLotus Blossoms: Mass Digital Surveillance and Attacks Targeting ASEAN, Asian Nations, the Media, Human Rights Groups, and Civil Society - Volexity, November 6, 2017 In May 2017, Volexity identified and started tracking a very sophisticated and extremely widespread mass digital surveillance and attack campaign targeting several Asian nations, the ASEAN organization, and hundreds of individuals and organizations tied to media, human rights and civil society causes. These attacks are being conducted through numerous strategically compromised […]
  • Vietnamese Bloggers, Activists Honored on International Human Rights Day - RFA, December 11, 2017 The Vietnam Human Rights Network honors jailed bloggers and democracy advocates in a ceremony in California, Dec. 10, 2017. Writers and democracy advocates jailed in Vietnam for the peaceful expression of their opinions were honored in absentia by an exile group in a ceremony held in California on Dec. 10, International […]
  • Câu chuyện TPP & EVFTA: Họa vô đơn chí   - Nguyễn Quang Dy, Viet-studies.net, ngày 12/12/2017 Kết thúc năm 2017, Việt Nam vẫn trong vòng xoáy của các sự kiện bất thường và hệ quả bất định mà nguyên nhân vừa do khách quan vừa do chủ quan, vừa do thiên tai vừa do nhân họa. Nhưng có một nghịch lý đáng buồn là rủi […]