GENERAL

  • Silenced Voices – Prisoners of conscience in Viet Nam - Amnesty International | April 30, 2014 1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY “A person is independent only if he has his freedom. And only when his rights are respected and fully protected by the laws then he is truly free.” Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, 47, a prisoner of conscience serving a 16-year jail sentence since May 2009. […]
  • European Parliamentary Assembly: The definition of political prisoner - Resolution 1900 (2012) Final version Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly Origin: Assembly debate on 3 October 2012 (33rd Sitting) (see Doc. 13011, report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur: Mr Strässer). Text adopted by the Assembly on 3 October 2012 (33rd Sitting). 1. The Parliamentary Assembly recalls that the definition of “political prisoner” was elaborated […]
  • VNHRN – Report on Human Rights in Viet Nam - VNHRN | April 30, 2014 Excutive Summary The human rights situation in Vietnam in 2013 was marked with a number of notable events. First, Vietnam was elected to the UN Human Rights Council on November 12th. This selection was not a surprise because there were only four Asian countries vying for four empty seats. However, this […]
  • Asians Among 100 Honored for Promoting Press Freedom - By Joshua Lipes – RFA | 2014-04-29 A young Cambodian reporter who has been subjected to repeated attacks for exposing rights abuses and a Myanmar journalist jailed after investigating a scholarship program are among 100 “information heroes” honored by a global media watchdog ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. Also included on the […]
  • Vietnam’s Blogosphere Poses Big Challenge to State Media, Activists Say - By Rachel Vandenbrink – RFA | 2014-04-29 Vietnam’s blogosphere is posing a big challenge to state media as social media grows in popularity and government-sanctioned newspapers lose readership, a group of Vietnamese citizen journalists and digital activists told U.S. lawmakers at a meeting in Washington Tuesday. The netizens called for tougher U.S. pressure on Vietnam to […]
  • Ten journalists to free from prison - CPJ | April 29, 2014 On World Press Freedom Day, CPJ calls for the release of all jailed journalists By Shazdeh Omari/CPJ News Editor New York, April 29, 2014—Uzbek editor Muhammad Bekjanov has been in jail for 15 years, one of the longest imprisonments of journalists worldwide. Prominent Iranian journalist Siamak Ghaderi was imprisoned in […]
  • RWB PUBLISHES PROFILES OF “100 INFORMATION HEROES” - RSF | April 29, 2014 For the first time ever, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a list of profiles of “100 information heroes” for World Press Freedom Day (3 May). Through their courageous work or activism, these “100 heroes” help to promote the freedom enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, […]
  • VIETNAMESE WOMEN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALL FOR THE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF DO THI MINH HANH, TA PHONG TAN AND HO THI BICH KHUONG - Tell The World Translation byChan Minh Defend The Defenders VNWHR | April 28, 2014 Under great pressure from the US on its human rights record, utterly powerless to stop and reverse the accelerating decline of the anemic economy, and unable to reach out and join the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) recently […]
  • Apr 21 – Apr 27, 2014 Defenders’ Weekly: Authorities officially questions Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience - ************Apri 22, 2014 ************ Two members of Vietnamese Women for Human Rights ( VNWHR) were detained and beaten in Can Tho City On April 22nd, 2014, two representatives of VNWHR – Ms. Tran Thi Hai and Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Lua, after attending the appellate court of two female land petitioners in Can Tho, were surrounded […]
  • Tuần tin Người BVNQ 21/4 – 27/4/2014: Chính quyền chính thức làm việc với Hội CTNLT - ************22/4/2014************ Hai thành viên Hội Phụ nữ Nhân quyền bị câu lưu và hành hung ở Cần Thơ Ngày 22/04/2014, hai đại diện của Hội phụ nữ Nhân quyền Việt Nam là bà Trần Thị Hài và Nguyễn Ngọc Lụa, sau khi tham dự phiên tòa phúc thẩm xử hai phụ nữ dân oan tại […]