Human Rights Stories 2007

12 - 01- 2007] Vietnam Continues Crackdown on Dissidents

[11 - 28-2007] Human Rights Watch: Democracy Activists Should Be Released

[11 - 27-2007] Vietnam dissidents defiant in court despite jail term reductions

[11 - 26-2007] Hanoi Court Hears Appeal of Human Rights Lawyers Sentenced to Prison

[11 - 21-2007] VNHRN to Celebrate International Human Rights Day, Present Vietnam Human Rights Award, and Hold 8^th Convention

[10 - 16-2007] Vietnam is among the Bottom Ten of the Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007

[09 - 19-2007] House Passes Smith Bill to Promote Human Rights Reform in Vietnam

[08 - 09-2007] Vietnam steps up pressure on dissident: rights group

[09 - 03-2007] Vietnam – Persecution Has Not Ended

[08 - 09-2007] US ambassador "discouraged" by Vietnam human rights record

[08 - 02-2007] VNHRN Requests for an UN Human Rights Rapporteur to Visit Vietnam

[07 - 31-2007] U.S. lawmakers endorse bill critical of Vietnam's human rights record

[07 - 30-2007] ASEAN okays creation of human rights commission

[07 - 25-2007] Conference on Trafficking of Women, Forced Labor, and Children

[07 - 20-2007] Vietnam: Respect Rights to Free Expression, Assembly

[07 - 19-2007] Urgent: Sai Gon Police Violently Suppress Peasants' Protest

[07 - 18-2007] Vietnam hit by mass land protests

[07 - 14-2007] Dr. Le Nguyen Sang’s Appeal Trial

[07 - 12-2007] European Parliament resolution of 12 July 2007 on human rights in Vietnam

[06 - 22-2007] Human Rights Stressed in Bush’s Meeting with Vietnamese Leader

[06 - 21-2007] Vietnam's president gets earful

[06 - 11-2007] Laos, Hmong Hold Human Rights Rally To Protest Human Rights Violations, Ethnic Cleansing In Laos

[06 - 10-2007] Vietnam frees dissident ahead of president’s US visit

[05 - 29-2007] Statement of the VNHRN’s Chairman at the meeting with the President and the Vice-President of the United States

[05 - 29-2007] Bush Asked to Push Hanoi on Human Rights

[05 - 27-2007] Blumenauer quits the US - Vietnam Caucus

[05 - 23-2007] Conservatives Criticize Vietnam

[05 - 15-2007] European Union denounces human rights crackdown in Vietnam

[05 - 14-2007] Vietnam sentences pro-democracy activist to 5 years in prison

[05 - 11-2007] The United States condemns Sentencing of Political Prisoners in Syria and Vietnam

[05 - 11-2007] Vietnamese court sentences dissidents

[05 - 10-2007] Viet Nam: Crackdown on activists must end

[05 - 10-2007] Vietnam: Three convicted and three pending trial in black week for cyber-dissidents

[05 - 05-2007] International Community Called to Scrutinise Human Rights Trial in Vietnam

[05 - 02-2007] Blacklist Vietnam for abuse of religious freedom: US panel

[05 - 02-2007] House Passes Smith's Resolution Calling for Human Rights Reform in Vietnam

[04 - 30-2007] WiPC concerned that detained writer not receiving urgently required medical care

[04 - 26-2007] Hundreds Demonstrate Outside Vietnamese Embassy Demanding Freedom

[04 - 24-2007] Prominent Internet writer detained in Vietnam

[04 - 24-2007] Viet Nam: Silenced critics must be released

[04 - 23-2007] Vietnam arrests dissident writer, schedules trial for two others

[04 - 19-2007] House Foreign Affairs Committee Approves Smith's Resolution Calling for Human Rights Reform in Vietnam

[04 - 06-2007] Human Rights Watch: Vietnam to end its persecution of citizens trying to exercise their rights

[04 - 05-2007] US urges Vietnam to free dissidents

[04 - 01-2007] VNHRN denounced sentences against Father Nguyen van Ly

[03 - 30-2007] Reporters without Borders: Priest who edited dissident newspaper gets eight years

[03 - 30-2007] Dissident Catholic priest sentenced

[03 - 26-2007] Khmer Krom: Appeals Persecution of Monks

[03 - 16-2007] Top Vietnamese Buddhist Slams Detentions amid Ongoing Crackdown

[03 - 15-2007] Overseas Vietnamese Community Protests against Crackdown on Dissidents

[03 - 15-2007] U.S. pushes Vietnam on human rights issues

[03 - 14-2007] US Lawmakers Warn Vietnam on Crackdown on Dissidents

[03 - 09-2007] Crackdown on Dissent in Wake of WTO and APEC

[03 - 07-2007] Crackdown on leading pro-democracy activists and writers continues.

[03 - 06-2007] Free expression advocate Nguyen Van Dai detained and harassed by police

[03 - 06-2007] Catholic Priest Continues Hunger Strike as Vatican Delegation Visits Hanoi

[02 - 25-2007] Vietnam investigates dissident Catholic priest

[02 - 22-2007] Three priests who edit free speech magazine arrested: one jailed, two under house arrest

[02 - 22-2007] Fears that Hanoi’s opening to the Vatican only a manoeuvre

[02 - 16-2007] Urgent Call for Action To Save the Life of Journalist Nguyen Vu Binh

[02 - 15-2007] Vietnam Human Rights Network Extends Best Wishes For New Year To Compatriots

[02 - 15-2007] Vietnam's Boom Found Backfiring on Women

[02 - 13-2007] Hanoi Tiptoes Around Religious Freedom - Serious Concerns Still Remain

[02 - 13-2007] Vietnam denies human rights group's request to present award to dissident

[02 - 09-2007] The Committee for Human Rights in Vietnam Denounces Vietnam Government's Repression against Human Rights Activists

[02 - 08-2007] Vietnam condemns Hammett Award to some Vietnamese

[02 - 06-2007] Rights Experts Doubt US Official's Confidence that Vietnam's Montagnards Not Harassed

[02 - 06-2007] Eight Writers Win Prestigious Hellman/Hammett Prize

[02 - 05-2007] Free expression advocate Nguyen Van Dai detained and harassed

[02 - 05-2007] Vietnam rights lawyers arrested after hosting first public training session

[01 - 27-2007] Persecuted prosecutor attacks reporter in Vietnam

[01 - 22-2007] No Significant Improvements during 2006 in Human Rights for Vietnamese

[01 - 20-2007] The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission Deplores the Incarceration of Mr. Nguyen Vu Binh

[01 - 18-2007] The UNPO Appeals to Halt Suppression in Vietnam

[01 - 17-2007] Bui T Kim Ngan Requests VN Authorities to Let Her Husband Have Medical Treatment

[01 - 10-2007] Vietnam Gets Second-Lowest Score on Corruption in New Ranking

[01 - 09-2007] Police in Vietnam Detain Members of Pastor’s Family