Tom Malinowski says Vietnam promised to reform its Penal Code-Doan Trang | May 17, 2015 Below is an exclusive interview by VNRN with Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski, Head of Delegation, US Delegation to the 19th US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue (May 7-8). My name is Trang, I’m an independent journalist and blogger in Vietnam, covering political and marco economic issues. My first question is that as […]
US asks Vietnam to release political prisoners ahead of TPP-Trtworld | May 16, 2015 The US wants Vietnam, a country in negotiations to be in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), to improve its human rights record in the near future, including the release of some political prisoners, a senior US official said on Friday. “In the short term, we would like to see, of course, prisoners […]
MP Hayes Urges Australian Gov’t to Ask Hanoi to Release Leader of Newly-established Republican Party-By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 17, 2015 Mr. Chris Hayes, member of the Australian Parliament, has called on the Australian Government to take action to demand Vietnam to release Mr. Nguyen Viet Dung, the founder and leader of the newly-established Republican Party of Vietnam in the communist nation in the Southeast Asia. In his letter dated […]
Vietnamese Anti-China Activist Freed After Year-Long Jail Term-RFA | May 15, 2015 Well-known anti-China activist and government critic Le Thi Phuong Anh was released from a prison in Vietnam on Friday after serving a 12-month sentence for anti-state activity, she said, calling her experience in jail “the most horrible year of my life.” Speaking to RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Friday, the mother of […]
Vietnam Urged to Drop Charges Against Former News Editor-VOA | May 14, 2015 WASHINGTON—A New York-based organization that promotes press freedom has called on Vietnam to “drop spurious charges” against Kim Quoc Hoa, former editor-in-chief of The Elderly newspaper. The Committee to Protect Journalists also asked Vietnam to “allow the media to play a checking and balancing role without fear of reprisal.” Hoa was […]
Vietnamese blogger and human rights defender Nguyen Chi Tuyen attacked-thoolen | May 14, 2015 On 11 May 2015, environmental rights defender Mr Nguyen Chi Tuyen was attacked by five unidentified men in Hanoi, Vietnam,according to information received by Front Line Defenders. The human rights defender’s car was halted in the Long Bien District by five masked men, who surrounded the vehicle. The assailants proceeded to […]
#COLLATERALFREEDOM: RSF UNBLOCKS TWO MORE WEBSITES-RSF | May 12, 2015 Operation Collateral Freedom is based on the technique of mirroring. RSF creates a copy of the blocked site on a website hosting service provided by a big Internet company such as Fastly, Amazon, Microsoft or Google. If a government that is an “Enemy of the Internet” were to block access to […]
Hanoi-based Activists Hold Demonstration Against Vietcombank Illegal Keeping Money of Prominent Dissident-DTD | May 14,2015 By Vu Quoc Ngu | May 14, 2015 Dozens of Hanoi-based activists on May 12 held a street demonstration to protest the Joint Stock Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, or Vietcombank (VCB), which illegally refuses to pay Dr. Nguyen Thanh Giang, a well-known political dissident in the capital city, local […]
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