Parliament calls on the Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defenders and journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, and Le Huu Minh Tuan, as well as all others, detained and sentenced in the country for merely…
January 9, 2021, is exactly a year since the Hanoi government sent forces of more than 3,000 riot policemen to attack Dong Tam commune, suburban Hanoi, killing 82-year-old communal leader Le Dinh Kinh, and arresting and probing 29 other land…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, January 2, 2021 According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of December 31, 2020, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or other forms of detention. The number does…
At a press conference on December 21, Ho Chi Minh City’s Police Department informed about the wrongdoings of Mr. Tat Thanh Cang, the former permanent deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee. According to Senior Lieutenant Colonel Pham Van Thanh,…
Part 1: Being too hot spots, fearless! Truong Chau Huu Danh is the only journalist to access and give information on the death penalty in an unjustly sentenced to death Ho Duy Hai from the investigation period…
The fact that the famous Facebooker, and former journalist Truong Chau Huu Danh, was probed and arrested in the afternoon of December 17 is attracting Vietnamese public opinion. Mr. Danh (38 years old, living in An Vinh Ngai commune, Tan…
Writer Pham Thanh, the owner of blog Ba Dam Xoe, was taken from a detention center to a mental hospital. The dissident writer’s family members told VOA the move caused further confusion and anxiety for the family when the authorities…
Recently, on social media, news about former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ho Thi Kim Thoa circulated on social media that she was arrested in France and was about to be sent back to Vietnam to take responsibility for…
On October 7, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security confirmed that it had “arrested” independent journalist Pham Doan Trang in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City on October 6. The short announcement posted on the ministry’s Electronic Information Portal said that…
Today, October 7, 2020, is the second and last session of the US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. But at 11.30 pm on October 6, police arrested journalist Pham Doan Trang – a famous human rights activist in Vietnam. Ms. Trang was…