More than a dozen days before the 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) opened, Vietnam’s Defense Ministry and Ministry of Information and Communications on January 13 strengthened their cooperation with the stated goal of ensuring…
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…
The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) has voiced concerns about Vietnam’s use of “vaguely defined laws” to arbitrarily arrest more and more journalists, bloggers, and defenders of human rights. OHCHR’s press release released on January 8,…
Journalist Le Ha, in charge of the independent television channel “Vietnamese TV,” on the evening of January 6, told RFA that a 37-year prison sentence was pronounced by a Vietnamese court to three members of the “Independent Journalists Association of…
The US State Department and the European Union (EU) both voiced a “harsh” sentence and called for the release of three members of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), who were convicted at the trial on January 5. In…
The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday sentenced three freelance journalists to a long prison term on the charges of “Making, possessing, distributing or disseminating information, documents and articles against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under…
