Vietnamese Blogger Interrogated, Books Confiscated-RFA Authorities in northern Vietnam detained a young blogger for several hours on Tuesday, interrogating him about his activism and confiscating copies of a controversial book, amid a growing crackdown on online dissent that has seen three netizens arrested in recent weeks.
Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review of Viet Nam by Freedom Now-FREEDOM NOW | June 7, 2013 | SUBMISSION TO THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW: SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM 18TH SESSION HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL – UPR WORKING GROUP Introduction 1. Freedom Now individually submits this report to assist the Human Rights Council in its review of the policies and practices of […]
Remarks by John Kerry at the Annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) Release-John Kerry Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room | Washington, DC | June 19, 2013 Thank you very much, and welcome, all of you, to this remarkable room, a room named after a Founding Father who was a lonely voice against slavery long before there was a United States of America.
Vietnam Urged to Release Bloggers on Journalism Day-Marianne Brown (VOA) – June 21, 2013 HANOI — While journalists working for Vietnam’s state-run media are receiving gifts for Revolutionary Journalism Day, bloggers and Internet activists are not so lucky. The Vietnamese government seems eager to celebrate the role of the media in the country’s wars against France and the U.S., but it is not so […]
Vietnamese Dissident Ends Hunger Strike After Prison Agrees to Study Complaint-RFA | 21 June 2013 | Jailed prominent Vietnamese dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu ended a hunger strike Friday after authorities agreed to examine his complaint over prison abuses, saying it was victory for justice and democracy in the one-party communist state.
Vietnamese Politics: Confidence Tricks-The repression is fierce; the self-criticism mild The Economist SINGAPORE | 21 June 2013 | THE police in Vietnam have been busy. Their targets, as so often, have been the nation’s pesky bloggers. On June 13th they arrested Pham Viet Dao in Hanoi; two days later it was the turn of Dinh Nhat Uy in […]
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