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Vietnamese police on Tuesday arrested a Buddhist abbot and two followers – all members of the Khmer Krom ethnic minority – for their alleged roles in two separate incidents involving a pagoda in the country’s south.
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The family of a 31-year-old man who died in police custody in Vietnam say his body showed signs of torture.
On March 22, Vu Minh Duc was summoned to a police station in Long Thanh district, Dong Nai province, for questioning about his involvement in an October 2023 quarrel which escalated into what his family described as gang violence. He would be dead by the end of the day.
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A Vietnamese activist, accused of “propaganda against the State” is being denied access to a lawyer, his family told Radio Free Asia.
Phan Tat Thanh, 38, has been detained since July 2023, charged under Article 117 of the criminal code.
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Two ethnic Khmer Krom activists who were arrested last year on suspicion of distributing books about indigenous peoples’ rights were sentenced to prison on Wednesday by a Vietnamese court.
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Police from Vietnam’s Dak Lak province made unexpected visits to two areas in Thailand where a number of ethnic minorities are seeking refugee status on grounds that they have been persecuted, they told Radio Free Asia.
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Vietnam’s Nam Ha Prison has been holding political prisoner Nguyen Duc Hung in a solitary cell for 18 months, his family told Radio Free Asia this week.
The law says the disciplinary period for violating a prison’s rules is only 10 days.
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Vietnam police have been summoning the wives of political prisoners for questioning over the past week, leading one lawyer to suggest that the Ministry of Public Security has launched a new harassment campaign against relatives of prisoners of conscience.
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The Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) – or Quê Me – marked Friday’s international women’s day with a call for the release of all the country’s female prisoners of conscience.
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Vietnam's ruling Communist Party has directed officials to control trade unions as the country prepares to expand workers' rights, alongside closely monitoring foreign organisations and citizens travelling abroad, according to an advocacy group.
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Vietnamese police have temporarily detained three members of an independent Protestant house church in Dak Lak
province in the country’s Central Highlands without providing information to
their family, a relative of the detainees said.
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While Asian Development Bank (ADB) President, Mr. Masatsugu Asakawa, visits Vietnam next week from March 11-15, we urge him to sound the alarm on the country’s lack of genuine commitment to its Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) and other climate finance projects while its climate leaders are in jail.
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Political activist Huynh Truong Ca says he will continue to demand democracy in Vietnam, following his recent release from a five-and-a-half-year prison term.
Ca, 53, still has to serve three years of probation following Monday’s release, but he told Radio Free Asia Tuesday that wouldn’t silence him.
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The Vietnamese authorities arrested three prominent critics just days after Vietnam announced its candidacy for another term on the United Nations Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch said today. The police arrested Nguyen Chi Tuyen and Nguyen Vu Binh on February 29, 2024, and Hoang Viet Khanh on March 1, and charged them with conducting propaganda against the state.
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As Vietnam garners interest from Western entities seeking to diversify away from China, and Laos takes the helm of ASEAN for the year, the political landscapes within these nations are drawing critical attention. Both countries, maintaining their governance under the Communist Party without the facade of independent elections, are at a pivotal juncture.
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Vietnam has again used a controversial section of its law to prosecute people for expressing their opinions with the arrest of 41-year-old Facebooker Hoang Viet Khanh.
Lam Dong Provincial Police announced his detention for “anti-state acts” on Friday, Vietnamese media reported.
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Authorities in Hanoi have taken into custody Nguyen Vu Binh, a veteran journalist and outspoken critic of Vietnam’s authorities, marking a continuation of the repressive measures in opposition to dissenting voices within the communist-ruled nation.
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After French authorities grounded a chartered flight with illegal migrants
headed to Nicaragua, human smugglers have been trying new methods to get their
clients to America. The latest is flying them to Nicaragua from Vietnam, and
then to the US.
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Last summer, as the United States and Vietnam finalized plans to upgrade the
bilateral relationship, the Communist leadership in Hanoi issued a secret
directive that aimed to limit outside influences and protect the party’s grip on
power in the face of growing exposure to the U.S. and its allies.
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Hanoi authorities arrested the creator of two popular YouTube channels on Thursday on anti-state charges under Article 117.
Nguyen Chi Tuyen will be detained while an investigation is conducted into the charge of “disseminating information, materials, items and publications against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” Hanoi’s Security Investigation Agency said in a statement.
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International human rights groups say Vietnam must improve its record on basic freedoms before running for reelection as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the 2026-2028 term.
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Communist-ruled Vietnam is expected to ratify this year the UN convention for the free establishment of trade unions, UN officials and diplomats said, in a move meant to cut risks of trade disputes but likely leaving some foreign companies uneasy.
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Former prisoner Le Van Sinh has accused the police in Vietnam’s Ninh Binh province of taking 400 million VND (US$16,260) that he’d stashed in the trunk of his motorbike before his arrest.
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While Vietnamese activists Bui Van Thuan and Bui Tuan Lam serve long prison sentences, their wives have told Radio Free Asia they face constant harassment by local authorities.
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UN experts today urged the Government of Viet Nam to stop targeting, convicting, and mistreating human rights defenders, after environmental human rights defender Dang Dinh Bách began his third hunger strike to protest against his detention conditions.
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Prison authorities have refused to sell jailed Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Tran Huynh Duy Thuc food from the facility’s canteen, a week after he voluntarily ended a hunger strike, members of his family said Wednesday.
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A court in Vietnam’s Soc Trang province has sentenced an ethnic Khmer Krom man to three-and-a-half years in prison for “abusing democratic freedoms” under Article 331 of the country’s criminal code, state-controlled media reported.
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An ethnic Hmong preacher and human rights activist released on bail from Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Center said a Vietnamese official threatened him when he refused to return to Vietnam, where he would likely face persecution.
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A Vietnamese prisoner-of-conscience who is serving a five-year sentence said he was beginning a hunger strike to protest harsh prison conditions – and to convince a cellmate to end his own hunger strike, his wife told Radio Free Asia.
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Vietnam was the top exporter to the United States of products covered by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2023, the first time a country has outranked China since the law passed in 2021, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Vietnam on Friday sentenced religious freedom activist Nay Y Blang to four years and six months in prison for crimes he is said to have committed while holding religious meetings in his home, state media reported.
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A Vietnamese political prisoner who raised money for families of people jailed for their political or religious views has been diagnosed with advanced stage cancer, according to her husband.
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Vietnamese prisoner Huynh Minh Tam, who is serving an eight-year prison sentence for “anti-state propaganda,” has claimed he has been kept in solitary confinement for four years, with a camera monitoring his every move.
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed concerns on Wednesday about the human rights situation in Vietnam during a state visit to the country.
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A Vietnamese court has jailed almost nearly 100 people after they were convicted on terrorism-related charges following attacks in June last year on a remote police station in the country's Central Highlands that left nine people dead, state media reported.
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Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Nguyen Nhu Phuong has claimed he was beaten by detention center guards after getting in a row with the warden over a missing gift from his family, his mother told Radio Free Asia this week.
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Vietnam sentenced nine people to death and two others to life in prison on Monday for their involvement in a cross-border drug trafficking ring, state media reported.
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Vietnam’s National Assembly passed a revised land law this week, which its environment ministry said would help the country's socio-economic development and revive a stagnant real estate sector. Many are unconvinced.
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The People’s Court of Dak Lak has started the trial of 100 people in
connection with violent raids on two People’s Committee offices in Vietnam’s
Central Highlands, state media reported. The first-instance trial began Tuesday
and will last until Jan. 26.
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There has been an alarming trend of Asian governments committing acts of transnational repression to silence their critics living on foreign soil, according to international non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch.
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The Vietnamese government broadly repressed fundamental civil and political rights during 2023, and severely punished those who challenged the Communist Party of Vietnam’s monopoly on power, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024.
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A Vietnamese journalist and prisoner-of-conscience serving a seven-year sentence was released from prison on Thursday and has already returned to central Ha Tinh province for a homecoming celebration with family and friends.
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At least three Vietnamese nationals were believed to be among a group of 14 people rescued by authorities after attempting to illegally enter Ireland inside a refrigerated shipping container, a Vietnamese official said Thursday.
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On the occasion of the 140th session of the UN Human Rights Committee to review the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by the Vietnamese government on March 28, 2024, the Vietnam Human Rights Network, Human Rights Defenders, and the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam issued an alternative report rebutting Vietnam’s report.
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In addition, I have designated Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and
Vietnam as Special Watch List countries for engaging in or tolerating severe violations of religious freedom.
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With a campaign targeting outspoken critics of the ruling Communist Party largely complete, authorities in Vietnam say they are now turning their attention to the country’s “small fish,” according to political and human rights activists.
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Police in Hanoi have detained a former member of a YouTube channel on which videos about those who had suffered injustices were posted, his wife told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday.
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PEN America is profoundly concerned about Le Huu Minh Tuan, an editor, and member of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), whose health has sharply declined since his arrest in January 2021, and calls on the Vietnamese government to immediately release, drop all charges, and provide critical medical attention to Le Huu Minh Tuan.
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On December 29, Phan Van Bach, former contributor to the YouTube channel CHTV, was taken into custody from his residence in the Dong Da district of Hanoi. The alarming fact is that Bach’s family was kept uninformed about his detention for a total of five days, as confirmed by his wife Nguyen Thi Lieu
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Vietnam has reportedly given itself 76 years to implement human rights reforms - a commitment that is being questioned by some activists.
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