Human Rights Stories 2017

 

 

[12-29-2017] Vietnam Launches Operation to Fight Against ‘Wrong’ Views 

[12-27-2017] Vietnam jails more than a dozen for terror plot to blow up airport

[12-26-2017] Vietnam army reveals 10,000-strong cyber warfare unit

[12-25-2017] Pro-democracy Activist Luu Van Vinh Threatened with Death in Custody

[12-25-2017] Vietnam Gov’t ‘Pioneers’ to Get Google, Facebook to Delete ‘Fake News, Accounts’

[12-22-2017] Vietnam Rejects Appeal of Human Rights Activist Tran Thi Nga, Sending Her Back to Prison

[12-21-2017] Five Vietnamese Activists Convicted of Anti-state Propaganda, Sentenced to Total 19 Years in Prison

[12-21-2017] Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Activist Tran Thi Nga

[12-20-2017] Police Kidnap Wife of Former Prisoner of Conscience, Robbing Her After Hours of Interrogation

[12-19-2017] Nguyen Van Duc Do Claims He Is Wrongly Charged with Subversion

[12-19-2017] Vietnam: Government Demands Removal Of Nativity Scene

[12-19-2017] Vietnamese ‘Red Flags’ Thugs Attack Catholic Parishioners in Nghe An

[12-19-2017] Vietnamese Dissident in Failing Health in Prison

[12-16-2017] Rights Groups Welcome EU Resolution, Call for Release of Vietnamese Human Rights Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai

[12-15-2017] European Parliament Adopts Resolution Condemning Lack of Freedom of Expression in Vietnam

[12-15-2017] MEPs call for release of all citizen-journalists held in Vietnam

[12-13-2017] Number of Jailed Journalists Hits Record High, Advocacy Group Says

[12-13-2017] Police prevent Catholics in Vietnam from attending Mass

[12-11-2017] Vietnamese Bloggers, Activists Honored on International Human Rights Day

[12-11-2017] ‘No human rights at all’: Vietnamese drug addicts undergo ‘work therapy’ while authorities collect profits

[12-09-2017] Vietnam arrests once-rising political star for wrongdoings at state energy giant

[12-07-2017] Testimony before the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

[12-07-2017] Appeal Court for Human Rights Defender Tran Thi Nga Set on Dec 22

[12-02-2017] Vietnam: Appeal Court upholds sentence on Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh amidst a growing climate of fear

[12-01-2017] EU, Rights Groups Call on Vietnam to Release Blogger 'Mother Mushroom'

[11-30-2017] Vietnam Upholds Decade-Long Jail Term For Activist Blogger Mother Mushroom

]11-27-2017] Vietnam Jails Activist Blogger For Seven Years Over Formosa Protests

[11-17-2017] Vietnam Detains Three Activist Bloggers Who Met With EU Delegation

[11-09-2017] Vietnamese Dissidents Summoned by Police Two Days Before Trump Visit

[10-27-2017] Jailed Vietnamese Blogger’s Daughter Asks Melania Trump For Help

[10-25-2017] Vietnamese Blogger Phan Kim Khanh Given Six-Year Prison Term

[10-17-2017] Human Rights Groups Call on Vietnam’s Government to ‘Stop the Crackdown’

[09-19-2017] Vietnam Jails Prominent Blogger For Five Years

[09-05-2017] Armed Thugs Invade Church in Vietnam

[09-01-2017] Vietnam arrests another member of online democracy group

[08-31-2017] Vietnam Dissidents Sent to New Prison Far From Home

[08-27-2017] Vietnam says human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai charged with Articles 79, 88

[08-23-2017] Police silent on lawyer’s “disappearance”

[08-22-2017] Urgent action: Missing human rights defender at risk of torture

[08-21-2017] Vietnamese President calls for fresh media crackdown

[08-18-2017] Vatican envoy calls on Vietnam to respect religious freedom

[08-17-2017] Vietnam Activist Nguyen Bac Truyen Unaccounted For Two Weeks After Arrest

[08-09-2017] Labor activist Hoang Duc Binh probed for third criminal charge

[08-08-2017] Vietnam to launch online censorship system

[08-08-2017] Vietnam: Vigils mark 600 days of Christian lawyer's imprisonment without trial

[08-06-2017] Vietnam continues persecution against Brotherhood for Democracy, arresting its spokesman

[08-03-2017] Vietnam releases imprisoned pastor on condition of exile to US

[07-30-2017] Vietnam arrests four activists, charging six with subversion

[07-28-2017] Human rights defenders in Viet Nam should 'never be treated as criminals,' says UN rights office

[07-26-2017] Vietnam´s dissident footballers take aim at politics

[07-25-2017] Vietnamese blogger sentenced to nine years in prison

[07-23-2017] Vietnam: New Threats to Growing Online Community

[07-19-2017] Cornyn introduces bill to promote human rights in Vietnam

[07-16-2017] HCM City Police detain environmentalists who protest waste dumping in Binh Thuan shore

[07-06-2017] Vietnam ranks bottom in Southeast Asia for cybersecurity: UN report

[07-05-2017] Vietnam detains young activist over critical Facebook comments

[07-04-2017] Open calls for nominations for the 2017 Vietnam Human Rights Award

[06-30-2017] Thiên An monastery cross demolished; Monks and faithful assaulted

[06-30-2017] UN human rights experts condemn jailing of Vietnam blogger

[06-29-2017] Vietnamese Blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ sentenced to 10 years in prison

[06-27-2017] International NGOs criticize Vietnam for deporting dissident to France

[06-25-2017] Vietnam blogger Pham Minh Hoang deported to France

[06-22-2017] Vietnam: New law threatens right to a defense

[06-19-2017] Vietnam: End attacks on activists and bloggers

[06-18-2017] Detained human rights defender Tran Thi Nga rejected medical treatment

[06 -15-2017] Vietnam punishes tortured pastor after he revealed human rights abuses to US officials

[06 -13-2017] Vietnam formally charges blogger activist honored by US

[06 -13-2017] Police reverse immunity pledge on land standoff

[06 -13-2017] Vietnamese police pursue criminal probe of Dong Tam villagers in land standoff

[06 -11-2017] Plainclothes agents in Hanoi threaten family of prominent human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan

[06 -09-2017] Montagnards handed back to Vietnamese officials

[06 -08-2017] Priests face threats and intimidation

[06 -08-2017] Vietnamese bishops alarmed by the new religious law

[06 -08-2017] Overcome 'fears,' Catholic journalists in Vietnam told

[06 -07-2017] French-Vietnamese blogger threatened with expulsion

[06 -04-2017] Authorities in Nghe An intensify crackdown against Catholic community

[06 -03-2017] Nghe An threatens outspoken Catholic priest, demolishing followers’ houses

[05 -31-2017] Police-hired ‘thugs’ beat Vietnamese anti-Formosa Catholics

[05 -30-2017] Suspicion over Buddhist’s “suicide”

[05 -28-2017] Vietnam upholds sentences against two political activists Tran Anh Kim, Le Thanh Tung

[05 -26-2017] Vietnam says Google will cooperate in removal of 'toxic' content

[05 -23-2017] Amnesty International urges that proper consideration is given to the release of all prisoners of conscience in VN

[05 -23-2017] Vietnam: Human rights blogger among five finalists for human rights award

[05 -22-2017] Vietnamese singer released from prison four months early

[05 -21-2017] VNHRN released its Report on Human Rights in Vietnam 2016-2017

[05 -17-2017] Vietnam: Environmentalists targeted by manhunt for ‘abusing democratic freedoms'

[05 -15-2017] Vietnam arrests one anti-Formosa activist, issues warrant for another

[05 -05-2017] Brazen assault alarms activists

[05 -05-2017] Vietnam issues arrest warrant for activist blogger

[05 -04-2017] Family of Vietnam Hoa Hao Buddhist questions death in custody ruled ‘suicide’

[05 -03-2017] Vietnam urged to free detained citizen journalist on World Press Freedom Day

[04 -28-2017] USCIR urges U.S. Government to put Vietnam into CPC list

[04 -27-2017] Vietnam says Facebook pledges to prevent offensive content

[04 -27-2017] Hanoi hostages released as Dong Tam standoff ends with mayor's pledge

[04 -25-2017] Vietnamese protesters demand apology over police mistreatment

[04 -21-2017] Farmers resist land grab, put up barricades, and seize police agents

[04 -19-2017] Hoa Hao Buddhists protest against harassment, beatings in Vietnam’s An Giang

[04 -16-2017] Land grabbing in Hanoi results in violence

[04 -14-2017] Two activists kidnapped, beaten and bobbed in Quang Binh, second case within two months

[04 -13-2017] Vietnam's Security Ministry pushes draft bill banning use of recording devices

[04 -05-2017] Two Hanoi-based activists beaten while holding Facebook live stream about Formosa

[04 -04-2017] Detained lawyer gets recognition from German judges

[03 -31-2017] Vietnam’s Pham Thanh Nghien named finalist for Rights Defenders at Risk Award

[03 -29-2017]  US Presents jailed Vietnam blogger with Women of Courage Award in Absentia

[03 -27-2017] Vietnam jails online graft whistleblower for bribery

[03 -24-2017] Vietnam cracks down on unsanctioned Hoa Hao, Cao Dai religious groups

[03 -22-2017] Vietnamese authorities arrest two bloggers for ‘spreading propaganda against the state

[03 -21-2017] Vietnam blogger arrested while interviewing school students about child sex abuse

[03 -09-2017] Vietnam 'needs to halt repression' of women activists

[03 -08-2017] UN rights experts condemn Viet Nam for incommunicado detention of blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’

[03 -07-2017] Rights group chides Vietnam for treatment of women, human rights defenders

[03 -06-2017] Two Vietnamese Christian leaders abducted, beaten with metal rods

[03 -05-2017] Vietnam’s persecution of dissent continues

[03 -03-2017] Vietnam arrested two dissidents for “making and distributing video clips with bad content”

[02 -23-2017] Rights group condemns police attack on parishioners in Vietnam

[02 -17-2017] Vietnam violently disperses peaceful gatherings on 38th anniversary of China’s invasion in Vietnam

[02 -16-2017] Vietnamese labor activist Doan Huy Chuong released from prison

[02 -16-2017] Catholics assaulted by police for rallying against nation’s worst environmental disaster

[02 -13-2017] Prominent Vietnamese rights defender released from prison

[02 -11-2017] Vietnam imprisoned pastor in critical situation, placed in solitary cell since October last year

[02 -07-2017] Petition pushes Hanoi to release Vietnamese activist

[02 -06-2017] Vietnamese commune targeted by protestors over Formosa spill payments

[01 -28-2017] Vietnam told to stop treating journalists as criminals

[01 -27-2017] Human Rights Watch calls out Vietnam for new wave of arrests of critics

[01 -25-2017] RSF decries arrests of three activist bloggers in Vietnam

[01 -24-2017] Vietnam hits activist with Article 88 anti-state charge

[01 -23-2017] UN Human Rights Asia expressed concern about arrest of HR activist Tran Thi Nga

[01 -21-2017] Activist arrested just days before Tet

[01 -17-2017] Khmer Krom: Confiscation of indigenous sacred land in Vietnam

[01 -13-2017] Vietnam sends a dissident to France but blocks another from leaving

[01 -13-2017] Many activists in HCM City barred from meeting with outgoing Kerry

[01 -06-2017] Vietnamese dissident attorney's house vandalized by thugs

[01 -04-2017] After fleeing the police, a Vietnamese man dies from ‘lack of oxygen’

 

 

 

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