Cancer-Stricken Vietnamese Former Political Prisoner Dies-RFA | 2014-04-04 A prominent Vietnamese former political prisoner who received a presidential amnesty two weeks ago has died of cancer, according to his family, in what an international rights group said was a tragedy that should be a “wake-up call” for the country. Dinh Dang Dinh, 50, an environmental activist and blogger who had […]
Death of activist Dinh Dang Dinh should be ‘wake-up call’ for Viet Nam-Amnesty | 4 April 2014 Amnesty International has paid tribute to Dinh Dang Dinh, the Vietnamese environmental activist, blogger and former prisoner of conscience, who has died aged 50. The activist was unjustly jailed in 2011 after starting a petition against a mining project and was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. The authorities only allowed […]
US House commission holds hearing on religious persecution in Vietnam-Catholicculture | April 04, 2014 The United States House of Representatives’ Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission has conducted a hearing on religious persecution in Vietnam. The bipartisan commission, once known as the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, has the mission of promoting human rights. Among those on the witness list at the March 26 hearing was Father […]
Religious Persecution in Vietnam: Government Spies, Forced Renunciations of Faith-By Gary feuerberg – theepochtimes | April 3, 2014 WASHINGTON—Persecution for religious belief in Vietnam is growing worse, according to witnesses that appeared at the a recent congressional hearing. For the first time in the history of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission commission, witnesses testified from Vietnam via video. All the witnesses agreed that the Vietnam regime is […]
Lawyer Slams Court Proposal of ‘Light’ Sentences for Vietnam Death in Custody Trial-RFA | 2014-04-02 Court prosecutors in Vietnam are deliberately proposing lenient sentences for the alleged killers of a man who died in police custody, according to a lawyer representing his family, in a case that has attracted public scrutiny in the Southeast Asian nation. Prosecutors have also refused to bring to trial a higher-ranking police […]
Mar 17-Mar 23 Defenders’ Weekly: one dissident gets conviction, other two are released-**********Mar 19, 2014********** Blogger Pham Viet Dao gets 15-month imprisonment The People’s Court in Hanoi on March 13 sentenced writer, blogger Pham Viet Dao for 15 months in jail for “abusing democracy freedom to harm the interests of the state” according to Article 258 of the Criminal Code. Mr. Dao was arrested on June 13, […]
Tuần tin Người BVNQ 17/03 – 23/03/2014: Một người bị kết án, hai người được thả-************19/03/2014************* Blogger Phạm Viết Đào bị 15 tháng tù Tòa án Nhân dân TP Hà Nội ngày 19/03 vừa tuyên án nhà văn, blogger Phạm Viết Đào 15 tháng tù vì tội “Lợi dụng các quyền tự do dân chủ xâm phạm quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp của tổ chức, công dân” theo Điều 258 Bộ luật […]
Vietnam cracks down on Christians as Easter nears-By JULIA A. SEYMOUR – Worldmag | April 1, 2014 AsiaNews reported that Vietnamese prisoners of conscience, who often are jailed for speaking out for democracy, free speech, or religious rights, suffer from physical and spiritual neglect. Authorities would not give Catholic blogger Maria Tạ Phong Tần a Bible from her relatives, according to AsiaNews. Tần, who is imprisoned for “anti-state propaganda,” […]
RESOLUTION RECOGNIZES ROLE OF JOURNALISTS COVERING PROTESTS-RSF | 1 APRIL 2014 Reporters Without Borders hails the resolution on “the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests” that UN Human Rights Council adopted on 28 March. It recognizes and endorses the essential role journalists play in covering demonstrations and condemns the harassment and attacks they often suffer […]
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