Vietnam : Why is the Party cracking down harder on bloggers?-Reporters Without Borders, August 4, 2017 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by a sudden increase in the persecution of dissidents by Vietnam’s authoritarian one-party state. Seven bloggers and citizen-journalists have been arrested in recent weeks and two have been given long jail terms. In a country where nationalist fervour is essential for the regime’s […]
Phóng viên Không biên giới ‘điểm danh’ nhân quyền Việt Nam-VOA, 0508-2017 Tổ chức Phóng viên Không Biên giới (RSF) cho biết họ rất lo ngại về việc chính quyền Việt Nam đột ngột gia tăng đàn áp những người bất đồng chính kiến, nhắc tới bảy blogger và các nhà báo công dân bị bắt giữ trong những tuần gần đây và hai người […]
Công an bắt ông Nguyễn Trung Trực vì tội ‘lật đổ chính quyền’-VOA, 04-08-2017 Công an Việt Nam đã bắt giam nhà hoạt động Nguyễn Trung Trực tại tỉnh Quảng Bình hôm 4/8, theo tin từ gia đình ông. Anh Nguyễn Quang Trung, con trai của ông Nguyễn Trung Trực, xác nhận với VOA rằng cha của anh bị bắt theo điều 79 của Bộ Luật Hình […]
Rage against the regime: the Vietnamese musicians fighting back-With Vietnam’s only independent recording studio as their home base, artists Ngoc Dai and Mai Khoi are starting a musical rebellion against the Communist party Bennett Murray, August 4, 2017 When the police surrounded Ngoc Dai’s home in 2013 demanding he surrender to the authorities, the elderly musician, who had just released an album, says he […]
Vietnam Arrests Fifth Member of Online Democracy Group-RFA, August 4, 2017 Authorities in central Vietnam’s Quang Binh province arrested a member of an online democracy advocacy group on Friday, bringing to five the number of group members taken into custody during the last week. Nguyen Trung Tuc, a former political prisoner and member of the online Brotherhood for Democracy group, was taken […]
Harsh sentence for blogger may haunt Vietnam’s environmental movement-by Michael Tatarski on 3 August 2017 HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – On April 6, 2016 dozens of tons of dead fish began washing ashore along Vietnam’s central coast. The phenomenon continued through the month, turning into what is considered the largest environmental disaster in the country’s history. Fishing communities in Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and […]
Rights group calls for release of Vietnamese blogger-Tran Thi Nga sentenced to nine years jail for ‘spreading propaganda against the state’ Tran Thi Nga (right) holds her son and an anti-China poster as she takes part in an anti-China rally in Hanoi in this photo taken July 8, 2012. Nga was jailed for nine years on July 25, for “anti-state activity,” the […]
Vietnam Continues Crackdown against Brotherhood for Democracy, Arresting Its Spokesman-By Defend the Defenders, August 4, 2017 Vietnam has continued its crackdown against Brotherhood for Democracy, arresting its Spokesman Nguyen Trung Truc after a mass detention on July 30. On August 4, security forces detained Mr. Truc at his home in the central province of Quang Binh and charged him with “Carrying out activities aimed […]
Nhà máy điện xả thải gây hại cho dân-RFA, 03-08-2017 Vụ việc Bộ Tài nguyên Môi trường đồng ý cho nhà máy nhiệt điện Vĩnh Tân 1 ‘dìm’ gần 1 triệu mét khối vật chất nạo vét luồng vào cảng xuống biển tiếp tục gây xôn xao công luận. Thực tế lâu nay sau khi nhà máy nhiệt điện Vĩnh Tân 2 đi […]
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