Vietnamese President Calls For Fresh Media Crackdown-PM News, August 21, 2017 President Tran Dai Quang of Vietnam has called for a fresh crackdown on the country’s already restricted media, with a focus on threats from “hostile forces’’ online, state media reported on Monday. “Political dissidents’’ have used the internet, especially social networking sites, with sophisticated methods and tricks to create internal […]
Vietnam’s president calls for tougher internet controls-HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s president called on Sunday for tougher controls on the internet in the face of dissidents who are using it to criticize the ruling Communist Party, and to combat threats to cybersecurity. Vietnam’s government has stepped up a crackdown on activists this year, but despite the arrest and sentencing of several high […]
Cambodia uncooperative in relocating Montagnard asylum seekers, says UN envoy-The Phnom Penh Post, August 18, 2017 The United Nations is trying to relocate 36 Montagnard refugees with serious asylum claims to a third country, but the Cambodian government has so far failed to cooperate, a UN rights envoy to Cambodia revealed today. The disclosure comes a day after it came to light that a […]
Công an Nghệ An đánh đập, bắt đi nhiều người trong gia đình ông Lê Đình Lượng-SBTN, 18-08-2017 Chỉ vì đến trụ sở công an tỉnh Nghệ An để hỏi thăm về tình hình của nhà hoạt động Lê Đình Lượng, nhiều bạn hữu và người trong gia đình ông đã bị đánh đập và bắt giữ. Nguồn tin trên trang Facebook Thanh Niên Công Giáo cho hay, vào khoảng 2 […]
Luật sư Võ An Đôn bị ‘xem xét kỷ luật’ vì chia sẻ trên Facebook-VOA, 19-08-2917 Luật sư Võ An Đôn, một luật sư nổi tiếng với những vụ bào chữa miễn phí giúp phơi bày tình trạng công an đánh chết dân, có thể bị Đoàn Luật sư Tỉnh Phú Yên kỷ luật vì những phát biểu chia sẻ trên Facebook cá nhân. Theo thông báo từ Ban […]
China, Myanmar, Vietnam fare poorly in US religion report-State Department takes swipe at jailing, harrassment of believers in annual assessment This photo taken on May 11, 2016 shows a villager outside the Catholic Church in Changjing, in China’s southern Guangxi region. A new museum in Dingan, the village where French missionary St. Auguste Chapdelaine was martyred in 1856 is just a few kilometers […]
Apartment of Hanoi-based Blogger Attacked with Paint, Broken Glass, Fourth Attack Since Late July-By Defend the Defenders, August 19, 2017 Unknown individuals threw paint and broken glass particles into the private residence of Hanoi-based blogger Phan Xuan Bach on late night of August 18, the victim told Defend the Defenders. Due to the attack, his apartment was full with red paint and tiny particles of glass. However, no […]
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