Human Rights Stories 2017
[12-29-2017] Vietnam Launches Operation to Fight Against ‘Wrong’ Views [12-27-2017] Vietnam jails more than a dozen for terror plot to blow up airport [12-26-2017] Vietnam army reveals 10,000-strong cyber warfare unit [12-25-2017] Pro-democracy Activist Luu Van Vinh Threatened with Death in Custody [12-25-2017] Vietnam Gov’t ‘Pioneers’ to Get Google, Facebook to Delete ‘Fake News, Accounts’ [12-22-2017] Vietnam Rejects Appeal of Human Rights Activist Tran Thi Nga, Sending Her Back to Prison [12-21-2017] Five Vietnamese Activists Convicted of Anti-state Propaganda, Sentenced to Total 19 Years in Prison [12-21-2017] Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Activist Tran Thi Nga [12-20-2017] Police Kidnap Wife of Former Prisoner of Conscience, Robbing Her After Hours of Interrogation [12-19-2017] Nguyen Van Duc Do Claims He Is Wrongly Charged with Subversion [12-19-2017] Vietnam: Government Demands Removal Of Nativity Scene [12-19-2017] Vietnamese ‘Red Flags’ Thugs Attack Catholic Parishioners in Nghe An [12-19-2017] Vietnamese Dissident in Failing Health in Prison [12-16-2017] Rights Groups Welcome EU Resolution, Call for Release of Vietnamese Human Rights Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai [12-15-2017] European Parliament Adopts Resolution Condemning Lack of Freedom of Expression in Vietnam [12-15-2017] MEPs call for release of all citizen-journalists held in Vietnam [12-13-2017] Number of Jailed Journalists Hits Record High, Advocacy Group Says [12-13-2017] Police prevent Catholics in Vietnam from attending Mass [12-11-2017] Vietnamese Bloggers, Activists Honored on International Human Rights Day [12-11-2017] ‘No human rights at all’: Vietnamese drug addicts undergo ‘work therapy’ while authorities collect profits [12-09-2017] Vietnam arrests once-rising political star for wrongdoings at state energy giant [12-07-2017] Testimony before the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights [12-07-2017] Appeal Court for Human Rights Defender Tran Thi Nga Set on Dec 22 [12-02-2017] Vietnam: Appeal Court upholds sentence on Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh amidst a growing climate of fear [12-01-2017] EU, Rights Groups Call on Vietnam to Release Blogger 'Mother Mushroom' [11-30-2017] Vietnam Upholds Decade-Long Jail Term For Activist Blogger Mother Mushroom ]11-27-2017] Vietnam Jails Activist Blogger For Seven Years Over Formosa Protests [11-17-2017] Vietnam Detains Three Activist Bloggers Who Met With EU Delegation [11-09-2017] Vietnamese Dissidents Summoned by Police Two Days Before Trump Visit [10-27-2017] Jailed Vietnamese Blogger’s Daughter Asks Melania Trump For Help [10-25-2017] Vietnamese Blogger Phan Kim Khanh Given Six-Year Prison Term [10-17-2017] Human Rights Groups Call on Vietnam’s Government to ‘Stop the Crackdown’ [09-19-2017] Vietnam Jails Prominent Blogger For Five Years [09-05-2017] Armed Thugs Invade Church in Vietnam [09-01-2017] Vietnam arrests another member of online democracy group [08-31-2017] Vietnam Dissidents Sent to New Prison Far From Home [08-27-2017] Vietnam says human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai charged with Articles 79, 88 [08-23-2017] Police silent on lawyer’s “disappearance” [08-22-2017] Urgent action: Missing human rights defender at risk of torture [08-21-2017] Vietnamese President calls for fresh media crackdown [08-18-2017] Vatican envoy calls on Vietnam to respect religious freedom [08-17-2017] Vietnam Activist Nguyen Bac Truyen Unaccounted For Two Weeks After Arrest [08-09-2017] Labor activist Hoang Duc Binh probed for third criminal charge [08-08-2017] Vietnam to launch online censorship system [08-08-2017] Vietnam: Vigils mark 600 days of Christian lawyer's imprisonment without trial [08-06-2017] Vietnam continues persecution against Brotherhood for Democracy, arresting its spokesman [08-03-2017] Vietnam releases imprisoned pastor on condition of exile to US [07-30-2017] Vietnam arrests four activists, charging six with subversion [07-28-2017] Human rights defenders in Viet Nam should 'never be treated as criminals,' says UN rights office [07-26-2017] Vietnam´s dissident footballers take aim at politics [07-25-2017] Vietnamese blogger sentenced to nine years in prison [07-23-2017] Vietnam: New Threats to Growing Online Community [07-19-2017] Cornyn introduces bill to promote human rights in Vietnam [07-16-2017] HCM City Police detain environmentalists who protest waste dumping in Binh Thuan shore [07-06-2017] Vietnam ranks bottom in Southeast Asia for cybersecurity: UN report [07-05-2017] Vietnam detains young activist over critical Facebook comments [07-04-2017] Open calls for nominations for the 2017 Vietnam Human Rights Award [06-30-2017] Thiên An monastery cross demolished; Monks and faithful assaulted [06-30-2017] UN human rights experts condemn jailing of Vietnam blogger [06-29-2017] Vietnamese Blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ sentenced to 10 years in prison [06-27-2017] International NGOs criticize Vietnam for deporting dissident to France [06-25-2017] Vietnam blogger Pham Minh Hoang deported to France [06-22-2017] Vietnam: New law threatens right to a defense [06-19-2017] Vietnam: End attacks on activists and bloggers [06-18-2017] Detained human rights defender Tran Thi Nga rejected medical treatment [06 -15-2017] Vietnam punishes tortured pastor after he revealed human rights abuses to US officials [06 -13-2017] Vietnam formally charges blogger activist honored by US [06 -13-2017] Police reverse immunity pledge on land standoff [06 -13-2017] Vietnamese police pursue criminal probe of Dong Tam villagers in land standoff [06 -11-2017] Plainclothes agents in Hanoi threaten family of prominent human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan [06 -09-2017] Montagnards handed back to Vietnamese officials [06 -08-2017] Priests face threats and intimidation [06 -08-2017] Vietnamese bishops alarmed by the new religious law [06 -08-2017] Overcome 'fears,' Catholic journalists in Vietnam told [06 -07-2017] French-Vietnamese blogger threatened with expulsion [06 -04-2017] Authorities in Nghe An intensify crackdown against Catholic community [06 -03-2017] Nghe An threatens outspoken Catholic priest, demolishing followers’ houses [05 -31-2017] Police-hired ‘thugs’ beat Vietnamese anti-Formosa Catholics [05 -30-2017] Suspicion over Buddhist’s “suicide” [05 -28-2017] Vietnam upholds sentences against two political activists Tran Anh Kim, Le Thanh Tung [05 -26-2017] Vietnam says Google will cooperate in removal of 'toxic' content [05 -23-2017] Amnesty International urges that proper consideration is given to the release of all prisoners of conscience in VN [05 -23-2017] Vietnam: Human rights blogger among five finalists for human rights award [05 -22-2017] Vietnamese singer released from prison four months early [05 -21-2017] VNHRN released its Report on Human Rights in Vietnam 2016-2017 [05 -17-2017] Vietnam: Environmentalists targeted by manhunt for ‘abusing democratic freedoms' [05 -15-2017] Vietnam arrests one anti-Formosa activist, issues warrant for another [05 -05-2017] Brazen assault alarms activists [05 -05-2017] Vietnam issues arrest warrant for activist blogger [05 -04-2017] Family of Vietnam Hoa Hao Buddhist questions death in custody ruled ‘suicide’ [05 -03-2017] Vietnam urged to free detained citizen journalist on World Press Freedom Day [04 -28-2017] USCIR urges U.S. Government to put Vietnam into CPC list [04 -27-2017] Vietnam says Facebook pledges to prevent offensive content [04 -27-2017] Hanoi hostages released as Dong Tam standoff ends with mayor's pledge [04 -25-2017] Vietnamese protesters demand apology over police mistreatment [04 -21-2017] Farmers resist land grab, put up barricades, and seize police agents [04 -19-2017] Hoa Hao Buddhists protest against harassment, beatings in Vietnam’s An Giang Land grabbing in Hanoi results in violence Two activists kidnapped, beaten and bobbed in Quang Binh, second case within two months[04 -13-2017] Vietnam's Security Ministry pushes draft bill banning use of recording devices [04 -05-2017] Two Hanoi-based activists beaten while holding Facebook live stream about Formosa [04 -04-2017] Detained lawyer gets recognition from German judges [03 -31-2017] Vietnam’s Pham Thanh Nghien named finalist for Rights Defenders at Risk Award [03 -29-2017] US Presents jailed Vietnam blogger with Women of Courage Award in Absentia [03 -27-2017] Vietnam jails online graft whistleblower for bribery [03 -24-2017] Vietnam cracks down on unsanctioned Hoa Hao, Cao Dai religious groups [03 -22-2017] Vietnamese authorities arrest two bloggers for ‘spreading propaganda against the state [03 -21-2017] Vietnam blogger arrested while interviewing school students about child sex abuse [03 -09-2017] Vietnam 'needs to halt repression' of women activists [03 -08-2017] UN rights experts condemn Viet Nam for incommunicado detention of blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ [03 -07-2017] Rights group chides Vietnam for treatment of women, human rights defenders [03 -06-2017] Two Vietnamese Christian leaders abducted, beaten with metal rods [03 -05-2017] Vietnam’s persecution of dissent continues [03 -03-2017] Vietnam arrested two dissidents for “making and distributing video clips with bad content” [02 -23-2017] Rights group condemns police attack on parishioners in Vietnam Vietnam violently disperses peaceful gatherings on 38th anniversary of China’s invasion in Vietnam Vietnamese labor activist Doan Huy Chuong released from prison Catholics assaulted by police for rallying against nation’s worst environmental disaster Prominent Vietnamese rights defender released from prison Vietnam imprisoned pastor in critical situation, placed in solitary cell since October last year Petition pushes Hanoi to release Vietnamese activist Vietnamese commune targeted by protestors over Formosa spill payments Vietnam told to stop treating journalists as criminals Human Rights Watch calls out Vietnam for new wave of arrests of critics RSF decries arrests of three activist bloggers in Vietnam Vietnam hits activist with Article 88 anti-state charge UN Human Rights Asia expressed concern about arrest of HR activist Tran Thi Nga ctivist arrested just days before Tet Khmer Krom: Confiscation of indigenous sacred land in Vietnam Vietnam sends a dissident to France but blocks another from leaving Many activists in HCM City barred from meeting with outgoing Kerry Vietnamese dissident attorney's house vandalized by thugs[01 -04-2017] After fleeing the police, a Vietnamese man dies from ‘lack of oxygen’
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