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  • Majority of Vietnam Parliament Support Right to Remain Silent - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 18, 2015 Majority of members of Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA) have agreed a proposal for enhancing human rights, including the right to remain silent of detainees and defendants, state media reported Thursday. Speaking at discussions in the on-going sitting of the parliament on the draft Law of […]
  • Vietnamese dissidents ask for US support on ‘prisoners of conscience’ - SCMP | Jun 18, 2015 Vietnamese dissidents on Wednesday pleaded for international help for prisoners of conscience jailed inside their country and warned that warming US ties with Hanoi may send the wrong message to the ruling communists. Prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai, who was released from prison in late October and sent into exile […]
  • Former Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience in Central Highlands Arrested, Tortured - By Vu Quoc Ngu | June 17, 2015 Family of former prisoner of conscience A Lu (Oi Hngem) in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Gia Lai informed that he was arrested and severely tortured by police in Phu Thien district on June 14, said Haiphong-based activist Nguyen Xuan Nghia, the writer awarded with Norwegian Authors […]
  • 988,000 Vietnamese Receive Legal Aid Since 2007: Deputy Minister - By Vu Quoc Ngu | June 17, 2015 As many as 988,000 Vietnamese in 940,000 cases have received legal aid services since the Law on Legal Aid took effect in 2007, said Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thuy Hien. Speaking at a seminar co-organized by the Ministry of Justice, the Embassy of Ireland in Vietnam and […]
  • Công an huyện Phú Thiện, tỉnh Gia Lai bắt giữ, đánh đập cựu TNLT A-Lư (Oi Hngem) - Dân làm báo | 17-06-2015 Trưa nay (17/6) tôi nhận được điện thoại của người nhà cựu TNLT A Lư (Oi Hngem) trú tại thôn Plei Rbai, xã Iapiar, huyện Phú Thiện, tỉnh Gia Lai. Tin cho biết cựu TNLT A Lư đã bị công an huyện Phú Thiện, tỉnh Gia Lai bắt giam từ […]
  • Interview: ‘The Government Violated the Human Rights of Political Prisoners Severely’ - RFA | Jun 15, 2015 Truong Minh Tam served a one year prison term because of his democracy advocacy before joining the pro-democracy group Con Duong Vietnam. With that group’s founder, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, now serving a prison sentence, Truong visited the United States to call for great attention to the plight of the […]
  • STATEMENT FROM CIVIL SOCIETIES AND NGO’S IN VIETNAM AND ABROAD RE. THE TRIAL OF THE “BIA SON” GROUP - Jun 17, 2015 TO: – Vietnamese Compatriots in and out of Vietnam – Democratic Governments of the World – International NGOs – Churches of All Denominations in the World More than three years have gone by since the arrest and trial of the “Hội đồng Công luật Công án Bia Sơn” (literally, “Bia Son Council for […]
  • Vietnam Republican Party Leader Brutally Tortured by Hanoi Police - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jun 16, 2015 Nguyen Viet Dung, the founder and leader of the newly-established Republician Party of Vietnam, has been severely tortured by Hanoi security officers during interrogation, according to the local website Danlambao (Citizen Journalist.) According to the independent online newswire, investigating officers of Hoan Kiem district beat Mr. Dung […]
  • Rights abuses by Vietnamese authorities scrutinized - Demdigest | Jun 15, 2015 A group of activists yesterday visited blogger Ta Phong Tan, who is currently detained at Prison No 5 in north centralVietnam, Vietnam Right Now reports. The prominent online activist jailed for “anti-government propaganda” has mounted a hunger strike for at least three weeks to protest the mistreatment of political prisoners, RFA reports: Citizen […]
  • Vietnam Human Rights Defenders’ Weekly June 8-14, 2015: Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience Present Vietnam’s Communist Government’s Inhumane Treatment before U.S. Congress - Defenders’ Weekly | Jun 14, 2015 ********8/6/2015********* Political Activist Do Van Hoa Completes His Four-year Sentence On June 6, prisoner of conscience Do Van Hoa completed his four-year imprisonment. He will be still under three-year under house arrest. Four years ago, the Bac Giang province-based resident was arrested and tried with allegation of anti-state propaganda […]