Tag: torture

The script is familiar: appear on state television, read a prepared confession, deny any police torture, and appeal for leniency. ...

During a meeting with Vietnam’s National Assembly Standing Committee in March 2015, Lt. Gen. Tran Trong Luong, a representative of ...

The ConvictionOn Sept. 22, 2016, the Hanoi People’s Court held a first-instance trial for Vu Van Binh, who was 18 ...

It is an open secret in Vietnam that brutality and torture are rampant at police stations across the country. Last ...

Vietnamese police officers were disciplined for beating up two young motorcyclistsOn September 30, five traffic policemen in Vietnam's southern Soc ...

Vietnamese activist Trinh Ba Tu reportedly assaulted in prisonTrinh Ba Tu, a prominent Vietnamese land rights activist currently serving eight ...

The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the ...

Retired elementary school teacher Dao Quang Thuc passed away December 10 while serving time at Prison Camp #6, his son ...

Mrs. Loan began to cry softly as she spoke to me one afternoon in late March, when I called to ...

An inmate who was diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage in January 2019 told his family that he did not get ...