The bloody incident in Dong Tam took place three years ago. If according to the Vietnamese custom of rebury, now is the time for those who died in the early morning of January 9, 2013 to prepare for grave transfer.…
The appeal hearing of six Dong Tam people is an opportunity for the Vietnamese government to prove to the world the Vietnamese law’s justice. That is a statement, and also a call for Hanoi by a Swiss human rights activist,…
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…
A copy of the “Dong Tam Report” has just been published for the 3rd edition in late September. It is said to be the most complete version in Vietnamese-English bilingual, after the previous two editions were released on January 16…
About 10 days after the first-instance hearing of the Dong Tam case ended, the lawyers defending some of the defendants, in this case, said that at least 3 convicted land petitioners had written and submitted an appeal against the first-instance…
by Pham Doan Trang & Will Nguyen, September 2020 Summary: On January 9, 2020, between 1 and 3 AM, thousands of police from special task, riot, criminal, and investigative units cordon off Dong Tam in coordination with local ground forces…
Some legal lawyers for 29 Dong Tam land petitioners told BBC News Vietnamese that there is still little hope of sentence reduction for some of the defendants convicted of “murder” charges at the recent trial. Among the defendants convicted by…
The Vietnamese police (the perpetrator has been identified as Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dang Viet Quang – Thoibao.de reported this before the trial: see here) used the German Heckler & Koch MP5 gun to shoot death of Mr. Le Dinh Kinh…
Elderly Dong Tam communal leader Le Dinh Kinh’s death recently was partly clarified due to the testimony of defendant Mr. Bui Viet Hieu in court that he was shot directly within a distance of 1 meter with a gun with…
Journalist Manh Kim announced on Facebook the content of a directive document of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Committee on Propaganda and Education titled “Excerpt of the press work of the 34th week, the Press Publishing Department, the…
