This week, the office of UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst, released the first...
UPDATE ON DECEMBER 20, 2018: The correct decree number has been included after more information was released by the organizers...
In the afternoon of July 2, 2018, a man committed self-immolation in the center of Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, a...
Civilians, victims of police brutality and arbitrary detention, academics, activists, researchers, and a lot more people from all walks of...
June 17, 2018| Hundreds of people were stopped, detained, searched, and later taken to a temporary holding center set up...
On June 14, 2018, AFP reported, the spokesperson of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Le Thi Thu Hang, told reporters...
April 24, 2018| After an approximate three-hour hearing, the Appellate Court of Nghe An Province, Vietnam, affirmed the 14-year sentence...
In the late evening of April 18, 2018, many journalists in Vietnam began to share on social media a story...
April 5, 2018 | Nguyễn Văn Đài – probably one of the most prominent dissidents in Vietnam for almost two...
She came from a poor family in rural areas of North of Vietnam, married young at nineteen years old and...
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