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  • Vietnam Police Brutally Beat School Boy, Providing No First Aid for Victim - by Vu Quoc Ngu, November 4, 2015 Police in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh have barbarically beaten a local school boy, providing no the first aid for the victim but leaving him with severe injuries to go home to seek medical emergency, state media has reported. Nguyen Duc Phu, 16, from Huong Hoa commune, […]
  • Vietnamese Activists, NGOs Protest Visit by China’s President - RFA | Nov 02, 2015 Eight Vietnamese nongovernmental organizations and 1,700 activists who live inside and outside the country have added their names to an online petition, urging Chinese President Xi Jinping not to visit Hanoi this week to protest China’s aggressive policy in the South China Sea. Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the […]
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vietnam’s Draft Law Threatens Religious Freedom - DVOV | Nov 03, 2015 Rights organizations call for comprehensive revision of Vietnamese government’s draft law on religion Citing a series of inconsistencies with international law protecting the right to freedom of religion or belief,  27  organizations, including international NGOs and regional civil society organizations today issued a joint statement criticizing Vietnam’s draft law on […]
  • Vietnam urged to redraft oppressive religious freedom laws - Christiantoday | Nov 03, 2015 Religious freedom in Vietnam is under threat from a new law on belief and religion, according to a joint statement from a number of faith groups. 27 organisations have signed a statement urging the Vietnamese government to revise the draft law which currently places “severe limitations” on religious freedom, according […]
  • Hanoi Human Rights Lawyers Beaten by Thugs When Visiting Family of Boy Murdered in Detention - By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 03, 2015 Thugs and security  agents in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have brutally assaulted human rights lawyers Tran Thu Nam and Le Van Luan and robbed a cell phone of the latter when the duo visited the family of Do Dang Du, the boy beaten to death during detention, […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly Oct 26- Nov 01: Gov’t-backed Thugs Attack Hanoi-based Activists When They Celebrate 4th Anniversary of No-U FC - Defenders’ Weekly | Nov 01, 2015 ************26/10/2015********** Blogger Nguyen Lan Thang Remains Strong after Series of Attacks of Gov’t Supporters Hanoi-based blogger Nguyen Lan Thang said his family stays determined to deal with harassments by government supporters who have perpetrated numerous acts of physical harassment and online attacks against him and his wife recently. You […]
  • Tuần tin người bảo vệ nhân quyền 26/10-1/11/2015: SINH NHẬT LẦN 4 CỦA NO U FC BỊ CÔN ĐỒ ĐẬP PHÁ HÀNH HUNG - Defenders’ Weekly | 01-11-2015 ************26/10/2015********** Nguyễn Lân Thắng: ‘tôi chấp nhận rủi ro’ Ngày 25/10/2015, kỹ sư Nguyễn Lân Thắng, nhà hoạt động trên mạng xã hội, cho hay trong các ngày liên tiếp ở tuần này ông và một số thành viên trong gia đình đã bị ‘tấn công’, ‘rình rập’ ở nhiều địa […]
  • Vietnam Police Propose Prosecution for Outspoken Former Newspaper Editor - By Vu Quoc Ngu, November 02, 2015 The Investigation Agency under Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security have proposed the Supreme People’s Procuracy prosecute Mr. Kim Quoc Hoa, former editor-in-chief of outspoken Nguoi Cao Tuoi (The Elderly) newspaper for “abusing freedom and democracy to infringe upon the interests of the state” under Article 258 of the […]
  • Vietnam commits to human right promotion and protection - Talkvietnam | Oct 31, 2015 Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga NDO/VNA – Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Head of the Vietnam Mission to the UN, asserted Vietnam’s commitment to ensuring and promoting human rights in a speech at the October 30 debate of the Third Committee of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly in New […]
  • Đề nghị truy tố nguyên tổng biên tập báo Người Cao Tuổi - Tuổi trẻ | 01-11-2015 Tại kết luận điều tra, Cơ quan an ninh điều tra nhận định vụ sai phạm của ông Kim Quốc Hoa “là vụ án nghiêm trọng, liên quan đến lĩnh vực hoạt động báo chí”. Cơ quan an ninh điều tra Bộ Công an vừa đề nghị Viện KSND tối cao truy […]