Human Rights Stories 2009

 

 

[12 -28 -2009] Vietnam jails pro-democracy activist

[12 -23 -2009] Vietnam charges human rights lawyer

[12 -23 -2009] Amnesty International Urgent Action: monks and nuns threatened with eviction
[12 -22 -2009] Amnesty International Urgent Action: Le Cong Dinh could face death penalty 

[12 -17 -2009] Vietnam's 'illegal' Buddhists seek French asylum

[12 -13 -2009] 2009 not a good year for human rights, Congressman Chris Smith says

[12 -11 -2009] Priest back in jail as Hanoi-Vatican in rare meet

[12 -11 -2009] Viet Nam: Time to release ill Catholic priest and prisoner of conscience

[12 -10 -2009] Presentation of 2009 Vietnam Human Rights Awards in Washington DC

[12 -10 -2009] Aggressive crowd of over 100 people creates havoc at Phuoc Hue Temple

[12 -02 -2009] Vietnam Buddhists complain of ongoing harassment

[11 -26 -2009] European Parliament passes resolution: Vietnam must curb human rights violations

[11 -24 -2009] Amnesty International Urgent Action: Vietnamese Priest Falls Seriously Ill in Prison

[11 -21 -2009] Call for Father Nguyen Van Ly's unconditional release

[11 -17 -2009] Jailed Vietnam priest in hospital

11 -05  -2009] Vu Hung, Jailed Dissident’s Life In Danger

[11 -01 -2009] Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh and Writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy to receive 2009 Vietnam Human Rights Award

[10 -29 -2009] VNHRN deplores the State Department's International Religious Freedom Report about Vietnam.

[10 -23 -2009] Vietnam: Blogger and democracy activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy beaten and arrested

[10 -23 -2009] South-East Asia gets 'toothless' human rights commission

[10 -21 -2009] Vietnam is rated in the bottom ten of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) index

[10 -21 -2009] US House demands Vietnam free bloggers

[10 -21 -2009] Rep. Sanchez-Sponsored Internet Freedom Resolution Passes the House

[10 -13 -2009] Banned, Censored, Harassed, and Jailed - Six Vietnamese Writers Receive Hellman/Hammett Grants

[10 -12 -2009] Vietnam Human Rights Network concludes its 9th General Congress

[10 -11 -2009] Vietnam novelist remains in detention: relative

[09 -30 -2009] Religious tension mounts in Vietnam

[09 -29 -2009] Police violently attack Buddhist monastery

[09 -25 -2009] Vietnam: Government Rejects UN Proposals to Improve its Rights Record

[09 -24 -2009] Amnesty International: Viet Nam should release peaceful critics

[09 -21 -2009] Vietnam Seeks to Silence its China Critics 

[09 -18 -2009] 8 Viet dissidents to be tried

[08 -09 -2009] Catholic sites blocked in Vietnam 

[07 -28 -2009] Congress Members Demand Change in Policy toward Vietnam

[07 -22 -2009] Vietnam police detain 18 Catholics after clashes

[07 -14 -2009] Vietnam charges 6 pro-democracy activists

[07 -07 -2009] Vietnam arrests 2 men for planning 'regime change'

[07 -01 -2009] 37 U.S. Senators Urge Vietnam to Free Imprisoned Priest

[06 -23 -2009] Vietnam pro-democracy lawyer disbarred

[06 -19 -2009] Global lawyers group slams Vietnam on arrests

[06 -18 -2009] Vietnam arrests 3 democracy activists

[06 -18 -2009] International Reactions to Lawyer Le Cong Dinh's Arrest

[06 -15 -2009] VNHRN's Statement on Lawyer Le Cong Dinh's Arrest

[06 -14 -2009] Vietnam arrests defender of pro-democracy activists

[06 -02 -2009] VNHRN calls for Nominations for The 2009 Vietnam Human Rights Award

[05 -25 -2009] Senator Boxer Reintroduces Vietnam Human Rights Legislation

[05 -20 -2009] Royce Effort on Vietnamese Human Rights Passes Key Committee

[05 -18 -2009] VIETNAM: Catholics and dissidents prevented to meet with the USCIRF

[05 -12 -2009] Hanoi admits human rights ‘wrongdoings’ before UN watchdog

[05 -08 -2009] Human Rights Council – Universal Periodic Review

[05 -08 -2009] Hundreds of Khmer Krom Protest Vietnamese Injustice at the United Nations

[05 -04 -2009] Vietnam: End Crackdown on Labor Activists

[05 -04 -2009] Vietnam Leaders Called To Account

[04 -17 -2009] VNHRN denounces Hanoi's continuous violations of human rights

[04 -02 -2009] The Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2009 was introduced to the US Congress

[04 -02 -2009] Laos, Vietnam Troops Slaughter Lao, Hmong: Over 6500 Face Death

[03 -27 -2009] Sentence against faithful of Thai Ha upheld. Catholics protest injustice

[03 -25 -2009] Vietnam's Human Rights Violations Exposed by The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)

[03 -14 -2009] Catholic defendants to be re-tried - Lawyer persecuted openly

[03 -09 -2009] Campaign of intimidation against lawyer representing Thai Ha parishioners continues

[02 -25 -2009] US Representative Royce renews call for "Country of Particular Concern" re-designation

[02 -18 -2009] Vietnam Cyber-dissident Defiant

[02 -10 -2009] Attacks on the Press in 2008 - Vietnam

[01 -23 -2009] Amnesty International Urges Immediate and Unconditional Release of Detained Teacher

[01 -21 -2009] Vietnam: Halt Abuses of Ethnic Khmer in Mekong Delta

[01 -21 -2009] PEN reiterates its call for the release of those imprisoned in violation of their right to free expression in Vietnam

[01 -10 -2009] Human Rights Watch decries Vietnam's press restrictions

[01 -05 -2009] State Firing of Vietnamese Editors Latest Sign of Shrinking Press Freedom in SE Asia

[01 -01 -2009] Hmong Community and NGOs in the U.S. condemned Vietnam 

[01 -01 -2009] Vietnam Outlaws News Blogs, Claims Foreign Servers Will Help, UN Security Council Review

 

 

 

 

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