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[2022-05-20] Vietnam ethnic minority activist jailed for 4 years for reporting abuse allegations
An ethnic Ede Montagnard minority activist was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for submitting three reports about human rights violations in Vietnam to “reactionary forces” overseas, another activist who followed his trial said.
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[2022-05-19] Vietnamese attorneys face abuse from police when defending their clients
Attorneys in Vietnam say their ability to defend their clients in court is being undercut by threats and physical abuse the lawyers themselves face, often at the hands of state authorities.
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[2022-05-17] Vietnamese blogger sent back to jail after three years in mental hospital
A Vietnamese blogger held for three years in a mental hospital while awaiting trial for criticizing Vietnam’s one-party communist state has been sent back to his former detention center on the orders of the Hanoi Police Investigation Agency, RFA has learned.
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[2022-05-12] Vietnam dissidents released, sent to US ahead of PM's Washington visit
Vietnamese journalist Ho Duc Hoa was released from prison and put on a plane to the United States ahead of a regional summit this week after more than a decade behind bars for treason in what rights activists said was proof that international pressure works on the one-party Communist regime in Hanoi.
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[2022-05-08] Prominent
human rights defender Nguyen Thuy Hanh
sent to psychological hospital for forced treatment
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have suspended the investigation against local prominent human rights defender Nguyen Thuy Hanh, sending her to a psychological hospital for forced treatment, her husband Huynh Ngoc Chenh told Defend the Defenders.
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[2022-05-05] Vietnamese writer declines literature award due to government threats
A Vietnamese literary critic who won an award from a group of her peers has declined to publicly accept it due to what she said were threats from authorities.
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Vietnamese “opinion workers” who promote the Communist Party and protect its image on social media now have a new role: spreading fake or misleading reports that support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Facebook.
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Since a planned human rights dialogue session with Vietnam was postponed earlier this month, the European Union has been under renewed pressure to get tough on the one-party state, which is often ranked as one of the worst abusers of human rights in Asia.
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An international rights group condemned the Vietnamese government’s plan to adopt new regulations to tighten control over social media platforms in the communist one-party country where leaders already have little tolerance for public criticism or dissent.
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A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City on Monday sentenced 12 Vietnamese to prison terms of from three to 13 years on charges of supporting an exile group accused of attempting to overthrow the government in a trial described by defense attorneys as violating legal principles.
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A coalition of Vietnamese organizations and individuals issued an open letter urging the United Nations members to prevent Vietnam from participating in the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2023-2025 term.
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Authorities in Vietnam arrested Hanoi resident Dang Nhu Quynh for allegedly posting information on Facebook about the arrest of a business leader, which they said violated state interests, state media reported.
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An appellate court in Vietnam upheld the two-year sentence of a former policeman arrested last year for “resisting officers on official duty” during a traffic spat.
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Vietnam’s vote against a U.S.-led resolution to remove Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday likely ends any hope Hanoi had to lead the body, one analyst told RFA.
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Vietnamese police have prevented Ukrainians in Hanoi from holding a fundraiser on Saturday to help those affected by Russia’s attacks on the Eastern European nation, organizers said.
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A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday sentenced a journalist to three years and six months in jail for criticizing how authorities handled a corruption case he uncovered as a reporter.
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The European Union (EU) must use the upcoming human rights dialogue to demand the Vietnamese government end repression of civil society and fulfill its pledges stemming from the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) urged today.
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The European Union should call on Vietnam to comply with its human rights obligations, end its crackdown on activists, and release all political prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The Australian government is urging Vietnam to free on health grounds a 72-year-old Vietnamese-born Australian serving a 12-year prison sentence for supporting a pro-democracy group.
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Vietnamese police have prevented Ukrainians in Hanoi from holding a fundraiser on Saturday to help those affected by Russia’s attacks on the Eastern European nation, organizers said.
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About 100 coffee growers in Vietnam’s Central Highlands staged a protest to regain land rights they lost after they stopped sending some of their crops to a forestry company that had allotted the parcels to them but did not invest in production, farmers involved in the demonstration said Thursday.
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More than 100 Vietnamese villagers demanding title to their land were attacked and beaten on Saturday by assailants wearing civilian clothes while police looked on and refused to intervene, according to local sources.
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Thugs with steel pipes attacked members of the Yao ethnic minority community in
Vietnam’s Lao Cai province on Monday as they protested the construction of a
hydropower plant they said would block the water source they rely on for salmon
farming.
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The United States honored 12 women from Colombia, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries, with the State Department saying they have demonstrated leadership and a willingness to sacrifice for others at an "International Women of Courage Award" ceremony Monday in Washington.
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‘The Government of Vietnam must immediately release environmental rights activist Dang Dinh Bach and unconditionally drop all charges against him,’ said the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) in a joint statement today.
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More than 100 Vietnamese villagers demanding title to their land were attacked and beaten on Saturday by assailants wearing civilian clothes while police looked on and refused to intervene, according to local sources.
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Vietnam’s security forces continue political suppression, which started in late 2015, arresting Ho Chi Minh City-based human rights activist and civil society campaigner Tran Van Bang (aka Tran Bang) on March 1 and charged him with “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 117 with potential imprisonment of between seven and 12 years, even 20 years in prison.
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The Catholic Church in Hanoi has sent a letter of urgent complaint to various leaders, civil servants and civil authorities, at provincial and national government level, asking the "People's Committee" of the province of Hoa Binh to respect the religious freedom and pastoral activities of the Catholic faithful in the province.
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The Catholics of the Archdiocese of Hanoi were surprised and shocked when government officials entered a church in the province of Hoa Binh and interrupted the Mass celebrated by Msgr. Joseph Vu Van Thien, Archbishop of Hanoi.
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Thousands of workers staged nearly 30 strikes throughout Vietnam ahead of and over the Lunar New Year celebration, demanding higher wages and other benefits, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) said Wednesday.
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The Vietnamese government systematically restricts the rights to freedom of movement of political and human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The authorities should immediately end all restrictions on movement and amend laws that curb citizens’ basic rights to freely travel within, from, and to Vietnam.
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More than 2,000 workers at a Korean electronics company factory in Vietnam’s Red River Delta went on strike on Monday, following a successful worker action at another foreign-owned plant in the country, local media reported.
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Vietnam on Wednesday arrested a high-profile environmentalist known for taking on the energy industry on suspicion of tax evasion, state media said.
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Van Quoc Quang had lived in a house in an area of Ho Chi Minh City for nearly 40 years when authorities told him he would have to move to make way for a canal development project. They promised him he would be compensated for the inconvenience.
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Despite some improvements, Vietnam remains a “country of particular concern” in terms of allowing its citizens to freely practice their religion, the 15th consecutive year the country has been so designated by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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A VIETNAMESE Dominican Father Giuse Trần Ngọc Thanh was killed in a knife attack while hearing confessions shortly before Vespers Mass at a mission in Dak Mót on Saturday.
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A Vietnamese man serving a prison term for his role in protests that rocked cities across the country four years ago was assaulted and beaten by as many as 11 prison guards after asking that political prisoners be allowed outside their cells to play sports, RFA has learned.
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Around 300 Vietnamese workers have been held in isolation for the last eight months at a China-backed power plant amid COVID-19 concerns and have been refused permission to return home for the Lunar New Year, sources in the country say
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A well-known Vietnamese activist in Hanoi who raised money to support the families of jailed political prisoners before being arrested herself nearly 10 months ago was forced to undergo a month-long psychiatric evaluation while being held in pre-trial detention, her husband said Monday.
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UN human rights experts* today raised serious concerns about the alleged forced labour of a group of approximately 400 Vietnamese migrant workers, who are reported to be victims of trafficking in Serbia.
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A Vietnamese man on Wednesday returned home after serving a five-year prison term for protesting a 2016 toxic waste spill, as lawyers for the victims of what is the country’s worst-ever environmental disaster continue to press for compensation.
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Pham Doan Trang has been named as one of the three laureates of the 2022 Martin Ennals Award today in Geneva, Switzerland. This year, the Martin Ennals Award recognized three laureates, Pham Doan Trang, Dr. Daouda Diallo (Burkina Faso), and Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja (Bahrain), celebrating three galvanizers of the human rights movement.
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Thousand of Vietnamese factory workers went on strike at a factory owned by Pou Chen, a Taiwanese company, earlier this week. Pou Chen is the world’s largest footwear manufacturer and supplies to Nike and Adidas.
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A court in Vietnam Friday sentenced a former police captain to two years in
prison for “resisting law enforcement,” after he argued with police when they
towed his car, his lawyer told RFA.
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Police in Vietnam have arrested land rights activist Le Manh Ha on charges of spreading anti-state materials on social media, his wife told RFA Thursday.
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On January 11, 2022, the Hanoi People’s Court held a trial for Mai Phan Loi, a former journalist and founder of a nonprofit organization, over “tax evasion” charges.
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Police in Vietnam broke into a home and arrested a couple while the husband was livestreaming criticism of the government, their family told RFA.
Nguyen Thai Hung and his wife Vu Thi Kim Hoang were arrested Jan. 5 at about 6 p.m. in their home in the southern province of Dong Nai while Hung was on YouTube.
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A Vietnamese soldier reported last year to have died in a fall in his barracks was instead beaten to death by his comrades, according to state media reports on Wednesday.
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On January 1, 2022, a group of 86 individuals and civil society organizations in Vietnam and overseas introduced a petition to call for the abolition and/or amendment of three controversial articles in Vietnam’s 2015 Penal Code.
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A coalition of Vietnamese political and human rights organizations issues an open letter urging the leaders of the world to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
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