Human Rights
English Speakers In Vietnam Got A Taste Of Censorship Over An Article On Pollution
February 20, 2019, a few foreigners living both inside and outside of Vietnam were sharing the news that an English...
Death-Row Inmate Dang Van Hien May Get A Second Chance At Life
On February 18, 2019, the defense attorneys for Dang Van Hien – a farmer in Dak Nong Province who was...
EU Parliament’s Members Ask Vietnam To Release Activist Hoang Duc Binh, Reiterate Human Rights Benchmark for EV-FTA
February 1, 2019, a group of nine EU Parliament’s members from different political parties, jointly sent a letter to Vietnam’s...
Political Prisoner Ngo Hao Suffered Minor Stroke In Prison, Health Deteriorated
On January 30, 2018, The Vietnamese received information that political prisoner Ngo Hao had suffered a minor stroke in prison....
Vietnamese Police Faced New Brutality Allegations Amid State’s Obligations To Follow Up UN’s Recommendations Against Torture
Today, January 28, 2019, a driver in Hanoi who was supportive of the movement to fight against illegal BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer)...
Human Rights Peer Review of Vietnam Spotlights Persistent Rights Violations
On 22 January 2019, Vietnam underwent for the third time a comprehensive peer review of its human rights record at...
Death Penalty Remains “State Secret” In Vietnam
A representative from the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam said during the country’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held on...
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc: A Decade Behind Bars
Nine years ago, on January 20, 2010, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City convicted Tran Huynh Duy Thuc,...
Timeline Of The Loc Hung Garden Incident
The forced eviction at Loc Hung vegetable garden in Saigon on January 4 and 8, 2019 joined the long list...
Vietnam Rings In 2019 with More Restrictions on Citizens’ Freedoms
During the last week of December 2018, Vietnam’s state-owned newspapers flooded the country’s social media with articles on rules and...
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