Human Rights Stories 2011

 

 

[12 -30 -2011] Vietnam jails two rights activists for 'propaganda'

[12 -15 -2011] Resolution on Viet Nam submitted by Suisse Romand PEN Centre

[12 -15 -2011] Continuing judicial harassment and sentencing to prison of Messrs. Nguyen Van Lia and Tran Hoai An

[12 -13 -2011] VN sentences 2 Buddhist activists to prison for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’

[12 -12 -2011] Vietnam: Release Hoa Hao Buddhist Activist

[12 -10 -2011] VNHRN presented the 2011 VN Human Rights Award in Melbourne, Australia

[12 -05 -2011] UN expert urges Vietnam to close rehab centers

[11 -29 -2011] Court Reduces Blogger’s Sentence

[11 -24 -2011] Hanoi: attacks continue against Thai Ha parish
[11 -19 -2011] Call for support for Vietnamese blogger behind bars for more than two years

[11 -17 -2011] Catholics Protest Project Through Prayer

[11 -16 -2011] United League Issues Human Rights Appeal - Laos, Vietnam

[11 -11 -2011] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Vietnam must do more on rights

[11 -11 -2011] US raises blogger arrests in talks with Vietnam

[11 -11 -2011] Viet Public Security Forces raided home, terrorized bloggers' family

[11 -11 -2011] Viet Catholic Mass Media condemns Vietnamese police brutality

[11 -11 -2011] Human Rights Watch condemns VN’s sentencing of Falun Gong practitioners

[11 -10 -2011] Two citizen journalists jailed for illegally broadcasting to China

[11 -09 -2011] Viet Nam: Falun Gong practitioners detained over meditation protest

[11 -09 -2011] Joint NGO letter to the Vietnamese delegation

[11 -08 -2011] Redemptorists urge Hanoi Catholics to remain calm after attacks

[11 -07 -2011] Hanoi Archbishop condemns violence against Thai Ha parish

[10 -25 -2011] Vietnamese Communist party steadily ratchets up the pressure

[10 -23 -2011] VNHRN concluded its 10th General Congress and announced winners of the 2011 Vietnam Human Rights Award

[10 -10 -2011] China and Vietnam Agree Over Internet Control

[10 -10 -2011] Vietnamese Police Continue to Harass Falun Gong Practitioners

[10 -04 -2011] Free speech groups call for release of Vietnamese blogger

[09 -30 -2011] Vietnam: Free Religious Activists Immediately

[09 -21 -2011] Ambassador Urged to Press Rights

[09 -14 -2011] Eight Vietnamese Win Prestigious Hellman/Hammett Award

[09 -13 -2011] Vietnamese political prisoner Truong Van Suong dies in detention

[09 -07 -2011] Vietnam: Torture, Forced Labor in Drug Detention

[08 -31 -2011] Vietnam: Free Seriously Ill Rights Advocates

[08 -29 -2011] The government will release 10 thousand prisoners. A Bishop: "One thinks of those who struggle for freedom, Justice, Democracy"

[08 -24 -2011] US Senators Urge State Department to Push for Release of Father Ly

[08 -23 -2011] Vietnam jails 8th democracy activist in a month

[08 -22 -2011] Authorities in Vietnam break up anti-China protest

[08 -18 -2011] IOL expresses its greatest indignation regarding Mr. Huynh's arbitrary disbarment

[08 -17 -2011] Vietnamese lawyer who defended Catholics and rights activists suspended

[08 -11 -2011] The CPJ condemns the harsh prison sentence against Pham Minh Hoang

[08 -10 -2011] RWB Condemns the sentence against Pham Minh Hoang

[08 -10 -2011] France blasts Vietnam for jailing citizen for blog

[08 -10 -2011] Viet Nam urged to release jailed blogger

[08 -09 -2011] Eight Catholics arrested after taking part in protests

[08 -06 -2011] EU's Ashton chides Vietnam over dissident appeal rejection

[08 -04 -2011] Blogger Paulus Le Son arrested again amid mounting tension

[08 -03 -2011] Norway concerned about the re-imprisonment of Father Ly in Vietnam

[08 -02 -2011] Judicial harassment, police surveillance, and intimidation of HR defender

[08 -02 -2011] US urges Vietnam to free top dissident

[08 -02 -2011] Vietnam Dissident's 7-Year Sentence Upheld

[07 -31 -2011] Overseas Vietnamese call for release of Father Nguyen Van Ly

[07 -29 -2011] EU joins calls for release of jailed Vietnam priest

[07 -27 -2011] USCIRF Condemns Seizing of Priest and Urges CPC Designation

[07 -27 -2011] PEN International protests  the re-arrest of Father Nguyen Van Ly

[07 -27 -2011] Human Rights Watch: Father Nguyen Van Ly Should Remain Free

[07 -26 -2011] US Calls For Release of Dissident Vietnamese Priest

[07 -26 -2011] Vietnam: Father Nguyen Van Ly arrested again

[07 -24 -2011] Fears of crackdown as Vietnam PM set for new term

[07 -13 -2011] Vietnam refuses political prisoner's plea to die at home

[07 -07 -2011] VNHRN Calls for Nominations for The 2011 Vietnam Human Rights Award

[06 -24 -2011] Freed Vietnam dissident to wage democracy fight

[06 -23 -2011] Vietnam's Labor Unrest

[06 -20 -2011] Vietnam: Press Decree Part of Crackdown on Freedom of Expression

[06 -19 -2011] Conference Calls for Recognition of Persecution of Montagnard Christians in VN

[06 -16 -2011] Vietnam: CSW calls for release of Christian activists convicted of subversion

[06 -09 -2011] Vietnam: Another Vietnamese Catholic human rights advocate on trial

[06 -04 -2011] Degar-Montagnards: Youth Group Shows Solidarity with Political Prisoners

[05 -30 -2011] Vietnam court sentences farmers to total 32 years in jail

[05 -27 -2011] US lawmakers urge Vietnam to free activists

[05 -27 -2011] Christian land rights activists to go on trial

[05 -27 -2011] Violations of religious freedom in VN denounced at the European Parliament

[05 -26 -2011] HRW Demands Vietnam Free Maverick Legal Activist

[05 -22 -2011] Vietnam: government proposes further legal restrictions on religion

[05 -21 -2011] Rights activists to be tried in Vietnam

[05 -17 -2011] Hanoi Sisters of Saint Paul home to be demolished

[05 -17 -2011] Human Rights Watch: Vietnam to investigate crackdown on Hmong unrest

[05 -10 -2011] Amnesty International Urgent Action for Nguyen Hoang Hai

[05 -10 -2011] Congressional Ceremony to Commemorate Vietnam Human Rights Day

[05 -07 -2011] Vietnam crackdown: More Hmong killed as army deploys

[05 -06 -2011] Vietnam 'seals ethnic Hmong protest site'

[05 -05 -2011] U.S. probes reports of deaths after Hmong protests in Vietnam

[05 -05 -2011] Vietnam, Laos Uprising: 28 Hmong protesters killed

[05 -03 -2011] 2011 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize recipient Bui Chat set free on conditions

[05 -01 -2011] International Publishers Association Condemns Arrest of Bui Chat

[04 -29 -2011] Statement by VNHRN on Blogger Dieu Cay Nguyen Van Hai's Situation

[04 -29 -2011] CPJ: Online commentator receives harsh sentence in Vietnam

[04 -28 -2011] Vietnam arrests pastor of banned Mennonite church

[04 -26 -2011] Cyber-dissident still has to serve five years in prison

[04 -26 -2011] Vietnamese underground publisher receives freedom prize

[04 -23 -2011] HRW: Vietnam Should Immediately Free Democracy Activist Vi Duc Hoi

[04 -15 -2011] Laos, Vietnam troops kill four Hmong Christians: NGO

[04 -15 -2011] Vietnam: Montagnards Harshly Persecuted

[04 -14 -2011] Vietnam releases dissidents after nine days in jail

[04 -11 -2011] Vietnam: Prayer vigils "respond" to the arrests of Vietnamese Catholics

[04 -07 -2011] Rep. Smith Introduces Bill to Promote Human Rights Reforms in Vietnam

[04 -05 -2011] The EU deeply concerned about the trial of Mr Cu Huy Ha Vu

[04 -04 -2011] Two Vietnamese to Stand Trial for Broadcasts Into China

[04 -05 -2011] USCIRF urges U.S. Government to defend Rights Defender

[04 -04 -2011] U.S. Deeply Concerned by the Conviction of Vietnamese Activist

[04 -04 -2011] Vietnamese Dissident Gets 7-Year Jail Sentence

[04 -02 -2011] Vietnam: Release Prominent Legal Activist

[04 -02 -2011] Report Reveals Vietnam's Decades-Long Crackdown on Minority Christians

[04 -01 -2011] Prayer vigils in Hanoi for an activist for human rights, truth and justice

[03 -31 -2011] VNHRN releases its 2010 Annual Report on Human Rights in Vietnam

[03 -28 -2011] Vietnam court to try prominent human rights lawyer next week

[03 -18 -2011] Vietnam slams blogger's nomination for free press award

[03 -16 -2011] Vietnam: Overturn Labor Activists’ Harsh Prison Sentences

[03 -14 -2011] Rights group warns against return to prison for Vietnam dissident

[03 -11 -2011] Vietnam dissident to stand trial this month: wife

[03 -07 -2011] Mideast uprisings lesson for Vietnam: freed dissident

[02 -28 -2011] Mideast-inspired dissident held in Vietnam

[02 -25 -2011] Women freed from 'inhuman' baby ring

[02 -24 -2011] Vietnam: New Decree Punishes Press

[02 -16 -2011] Hillary Clinton Calls For Internet Freedom

[02 -09 -2011] Urgent Action: Catholic priest risks being returned to prison

[02 -07 -2011] Vietnam charges activist with anti-government acts

[02 -07 -2011] The Socialist Republic of Vietnam to be put back on the CPC List

[02 -03 -2011] Viet Nam: Deadly attack against a journalist

[01 -27 -2011] Communist Party Steps on Already Stifled Newspapers

[01 -26 -2011] Amnesty International has condemned Viet Nam for sentencing activist

[01 -26 -2011] Vietnam sentences dissident to 8 years

[01 -25 -2011] Human Rights Watch condemns Vietnam for repression of human rights

[01 -21 -2011] Vietnamese journalist critically injured in fiery attack

[01 -14 -2011] Government adopts new decree “regulating” journalists and bloggers

[01 -11 -2011] HRW urges VN to end chokehold on dissent before Party Congress

[01 -08 -2011] Lawmaker protests 'reprehensible' Vietnam attack on U.S. diplomat

[01 -07 -2011] Amnesty International USA asks release of all political prisoners in VN for Tet

[01 -06 -2011] US Protests Manhandling of Diplomat in Vietnam

[01 -05 -2011] US lawmaker targets Vietnam on rights

 

 

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