TIẾNG VIỆT Về Mạng Lưới NQVN Luật Quốc Tế NQ Tài Liệu NQ Báo Cáo NQ Giải NQVN Liên Kết	LATEST NEWS [2021-01-22] EU lawmakers condemn Vietnam over human rights crackdown EU lawmakers voted 592 to 32 with 58 abstentions on Thursday in favour of a resolution calling for a tougher stance against the Vietnamese government and highlighting the link between human rights and the trade deal the bloc has with Vietnam. [2021-01-21] Vietnamese Facebook User Gets Seven-Year Term For Ridiculing Leaders A court in southern Vietnam’s Hau Giang province jailed a Vietnamese Facebook user this week for seven years for posts satirizing and “offending” Vietnamese political leaders, sources in the country said. [2021-01-15] Heavy sentences against Vietnamese journalists send chilling message: UN experts The Special Rapporteurs expressed particular concern that the journalists had been charged under Article 117 of the Penal Code for offences related to “propaganda against the State”. [2021-01-14] Jailed Vietnamese Democracy Advocate Hospitalized as Hunger Strike Hits Day 50 A jailed Vietnamese democracy advocate has been hospitalized in failing health in Nghe An province after reaching the 50-day mark in a hunger strike launched to appeal for a reduction in his prison term, family members say. [2021-01-13] Rights Violations Intensify in Vietnam: HRW Vietnamese authorities increased restrictions on basic political and civil rights in 2020, especially freedom of expression and association, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. [2021-01-12] Vietnam Rights Defenders Weigh Magnitsky Measures as Criticism of Hanoi’s Crackdown Mounts Rights activists and relatives of political prisoners in Vietnam called this week for sanctions to be imposed on Vietnamese officials deemed responsible for torture and other abuses in the country’s jails, as criticism of Hanoi’s repression of critics and dissenters mounts around the world. [2021-01-08] Vietnam Court Rejects Appeal of ‘Constitution Group’ Protesters, Returning Them to Prison An appeals court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City on Friday upheld harsh prison terms handed down last year to four activists convicted of planning protests on Vietnam’s National Day on Sept. 2, 2018. Arrested in September 2018, the four were part of a group of eight named by police as members of the Hien Phap (Constitution) Group, a network of activists formed on June 16, 2017 to call for the rights to freedom of speech and assembly promised under Article 25 of Vietnam’s Constitution. [2021-01-08] UN rights office denounces ‘increasing clampdown’ on freedom of expression The UN human rights office (OHCHR), on Friday, voiced concerns over the use of “vaguely defined laws” in Viet Nam, to arbitrarily detain an increasing number of journalists, bloggers, commentators and rights defenders, amidst what appears to be part of an “increasing clampdown” on the freedom of expression in the country. [2021-01-07] Vietnamese Facebook User Jailed For One Year For ‘Offending’ Officials A court in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai province on Thursday sentenced a Facebook user to a year in jail for “offending” local officials he said had mismanaged local land disputes, according to reports in Vietnamese state media. [2021-01-06] US, EU Demand Release of Vietnamese RFA Blogger and Others Jailed For ‘Peaceful Expression’ of Views The United States and European Union called on Vietnam on Wednesday to immediately free three jailed Vietnamese journalists, one of them a blogger for RFA, sentenced this week to long jail terms for writing articles online criticizing Vietnam’s one-party communist government. [2021-01-06] Vietnam Human Rights Network, Defend The Defenders, and Human Rights Relief Foundation protest against the sentencing of 3 members of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN) Vietnam Human Rights Network, Defend the Defenders, and Human Rights Relief Foundation believe that Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, and Le Huu Minh Tuan have not violated  any Vietnamese law, and that their arrests, detentions and convictions are completely unjustified.  [2021-01-05] Vietnam journalists who criticised government jailed for 'spreading propaganda'  A court in Vietnam has sentenced three freelance journalists known for their criticism of government to between 11 and 15 years in prison, after finding them guilty of spreading anti-state propaganda. Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan were convicted of “making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the state” at a one-day trial in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Security said. MORE NEWS	ENGLISH About VNHRN Intl. Bill of HR HR Documents HR Reports VNHR Awards Links
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