Vietnam: President’s Visit to Washington Puts Rights in Spotlight-Human Rights Watch 22 July 2013 Obama Needs to Address Worsening Crackdown on Dissidents (Washington, DC) – Vietnam’s intensifying crackdown on free expression should be a top agenda item during Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang’s summit with President Barack Obama this week, Human Rights Watch said today. Sang will be in the United States from July 24 to […]
Vietnamese dissident said weak from hunger strike-CHRIS BRUMMITT The Huffington Post | 22 July 2013 HANOI, Vietnam — One of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents is on the 30th day of a hunger strike in protest against being held under solitary confinement, family members said Monday, casting fresh attention on Vietnam’s human rights record ahead of trip by the country’s president this week to […]
Vietnam blogger ‘weak’ from hunger strike-The Australian 22 July 2013 A WELL-KNOWN Vietnamese blogger, jailed for 12 years for anti-state propaganda, is “very weak” after a month-long hunger strike protesting at his treatment in prison, his family says. Nguyen Van Hai – a founding member of the banned Free Journalists Club who is better known by his alias Dieu Cay […]
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Bloc 8406 Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review-Bloc 8406 July 2013 Bloc 8406 formed on the eighth of April, 2006 in Vietnam by 118 people. Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly, a nominee for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, is one of its founders. Bloc 8406 is one of the pro-democracy movements in Vietnam. Its membership, from both outside and within the […]
Vietnam’s Decree Silent On Local Offices for Foreign Internet Companies-RFA 17 July 2013 A new decree spelling out legal requirements for foreign Internet companies operating in Vietnam does not contain a clause from an earlier draft version compelling them to open offices inside the one-party Communist state.
Edward R. Royce’s Letter to Obama on Vietnamese President’s Visit-Edward R. Royce Chairman of Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. House of Representatives July 18, 2013 The President The White House Washington, DC20500 Dear Mr. President: I urge you to make human rights a top priority during the upcoming visit of President Truong Tan Sang of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Jailed blogger on hunger strike for nearly four weeks-Civil Rights Defenders 19 July 2013 A prominent imprisoned Vietnamese blogger, Nguyen Van Hai, more known under his pen name Dieu Cay, is on hunger strike since four weeks. Hai who is serving a 12 years prison term for his peaceful activism reportedly started his hunger strike on 26 June in protest against prison conditions.
VIETNAM: Pro-democracy blogger Dieu Cay is on hunger strike-PARIS-GENEVA, 19 July 2013 (OBSERVATORY & VCHR) – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), express deep concern for the health of human rights defender Mr. Nguyen […]
GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS INCREASE IN NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE SEEKING ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA-By Jane Norman and staff, ABC News | Updated July 17, 2013, 4:51 pm Immigration Department figures show a sharp rise in the number of Vietnamese people seeking asylum in Australia. Yesterday a boat carrying 84 people – mainly Vietnamese – was intercepted in waters 50 kilometres away from the Kimberley town of Broome.
Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls on President Obama to press Vietnamese leader on democracy for Vietnam-For the upcoming visit of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to Washington D.C. PARIS, 18.7.2013 (IBIB) – The Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Quang Do has written to the United States’ President Barack Obama, calling on him to raise issues of democracy and human rights in his coming meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on […]
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