Police in Vietnam have detained three members of a pro-democracy group, including a Norwegian citizen and an Australian national of Vietnamese origin, on terrorism allegations, according to the government and the organization.
A report by The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, published in September 2026, analyses the trafficking and exploitation of Vietnamese migrants in Europe.
Families of Prisoners in Việt Nam are grappling with new regulations that force them to purchase overpriced canteen supplies instead of sending home-cooked food.
Rights group Justice for Myanmar (JFM) has condemned Vietnam’s decision to welcome regime leader Min Aung Hlaing for an official visit, saying Hanoi risks deepening “complicity” in the putsch leader’s crimes.
The consolidation of power under President and Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm has led to an escalation in state repression across Việt Nam. Departing from the nation’s traditional collective leadership model, this transition to a “strongman” era concentrates authority under his hands.
Vietnam's Gen Z has launched a major online campaign demanding accountability after former politician Nguyen Sy Cuong was cleared of criminal liability over a fatal 2025 Hanoi crash that killed 18-year-old student Do Ngoc Phuong Thuy.
The Vietnam Human Rights Network (VNHRN) today submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning the imprisonment of Vietnamese writer and political commentator Huynh Ngoc Tuan.
Vietnamese authorities should reject proposed revisions to the penal code that violate basic rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should instead amend the law to comply with international human rights standards.
A Montagnard Protestant pastor was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on the charge of ‘undermining the national unity policy’ by the People's Court of Đắk Lắk Province, Vietnam on 5 August. Y Nuen Ayun, born 1967, was also sentenced to four years of probationary supervision following completion of the prison sentence.
On the morning of Aug. 3, 2026, the Hà Nội People’s Court tried Đoàn Bảo Châu in absentia, sentencing him to seven years in prison followed by five years of probation under Article 117 of Việt Nam’s Penal Code.
On July 29, 2026, a court in Hanoi convicted Hoang Thi Hong Thai and sentenced her to six years in prison. Hanoi police had arrested her on January 7 for comments she made on social media criticizing the Vietnamese government and charged her with anti-state propaganda under article 117 of the penal code.
In a break with recent practice, the EU has issued a unilateral statement after its latest human rights dialogue with Vietnam, expressing ‘serious concerns’ regarding political prisoners and reports of transnational repression.
Can Thi Theu, 64, is serving an eight-year prison sentence at Prison No. 5 in Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province because she joined protests against land confiscation and environmental degradation in 2016 and publicly supported other human rights activists and political prisoners languishing behind bars.
Vietnamese authorities reportedly subjected 119 Christians in Gia Lai province to “enforcement action” during the first half of 2026 over accusations that they were connected to organizations advocating self-determination for ethnic and religious minorities.
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on Vietnam to release a former business executive and four other people over their roles in the publication and promotion of a book about Ho Chi Minh that allegedly contained anti-state content.
Police in Vietnam said on July 15 they had arrested three executives of a publishing house that released a book on Ho Chi Minh, the revered founder of the country’s Communist Party.
Vietnamese authorities have arrested the author of a recently published book about Ho Chi Minh, founder of the country's Communist Party, on anti-state charges, Hanoi police announced on Tuesday (July 7).
On June 25, Nghệ An provincial police announced that they had prosecuted and detained Lê Thị Thủy (born in 1968) to investigate her for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State and the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals” under Article 331 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Independent journalist Le Van Dung, widely known as Le Dung Vova, was released Tuesday after serving a five-year prison sentence for anti-state propaganda, reuniting with his family after years in custody.
