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 […]
Call to assist Vietnamese dissidents Le Quoc Quan and Cu Huy Ha Vu-Khanh VU DUC VDK LAW OFFICE – Canada June 20, 2013 The Honourable John Baird, PC, MP Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, OntarioK1A 0G2 Tel: (613) 995-1851; Fax: (613) 996-3443 E-mail: Minister John Baird XXX@international.gc.ca
Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation- Boston.com HANOI, Vietnam | AP | 19.6.2013 | Cu Huy Ha Vu’s books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife alone.
HRW: Vietnam Escalating Persecution of Bloggers-Recent Arrests, Physical Attacks Require Strong Diplomatic Response Human Rights Watch (New York, June 20, 2013) – The Vietnamese government should unconditionally release recently arrested bloggers and end physical attacks on critics, Human Rights Watch said today.
Kerry must press Vietnam to release dissident blogger, say NGOs-Democracy Digest 17.6.2013 US Secretary of State John Kerry should press Vietnam’s government to free a leading human rights defender, when he attends the ASEAN conference later this month, says a broad coalition of NGOs.
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