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Five visiting monks from Lung-ngon Monastery, accompanied by Chinese embassy officials, were shown in groups of three the face, but no other parts of the body of the abbot, Tulku Hungkar Dorje, for just two-three minutes each in the Vinmec Central Park International Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Police in Czechia, working in close cooperation with German authorities, arrested three suspects this week in connection with an international human trafficking ring accused of smuggling women from Southeast Asia to Germany, the National Centre Against Organized Crime (NCOZ) has revealed. The concerning development brings to light the dark nature of human trafficking in Czechia and the EU.
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The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.
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UNPO strongly condemns the recent arbitrary arrests of Khmer-Krom Buddhist monk Venerable Kim Som Rinh and human rights activists Thach Nga and Thach Xuan Dong, in the Tra Vinh
province, Vietnam.
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Vietnam arrested an ethnic Khmer Krom monk and two activists on Thursday and charged them with breaking a vague law that is often used to silence dissent, a Khmer Krom advocacy group said.
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Vu Quang Thuan, a former political prisoner who was recently released from jail, told Radio Free Asia that police have taken the unusual step of installing surveillance cameras in his home without his consent.
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Inmates at a prison in southeast Vietnam have been staging hunger strikes to protest filthy water, poor medical care and unfair food distribution, the mother of one told Radio Free Asia this week.
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Police in southern Vietnam have arrested a 28-year-old man on charges of trying to overthrow the communist government, according to a police website.
Quach Gia Khang from Dong Nai province was charged on Tuesday with “conducting activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration” under Article 109 of the Criminal Code, police said.
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The Independent Vietnamese Writers’ Association has awarded a prestigious prize to a mystery winner. The group said it was concerned the writer may be targeted by authorities in a country where freedom of expression is rarely tolerated.
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The European Union has spoken out against Vietnam’s arrest of human rights and labor campaigners, and environmental experts, telling a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council that Hanoi should free people it has locked up for exercising their basic rights.
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A United Nations group has accused Vietnam of unfairly arresting and trying a blogger and activist, who is serving a six-year prison term. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said the trial took place under a state judicial practice that could amount to a violation of international law.
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A court in Vietnam jailed a well-known writer for two-and-a-half years on Thursday, sources close to the family told Radio Free Asia.
Truong Huy San, 64, was convicted of “abusing democratic freedoms” in connection with his Facebook posts about current affairs, including the environment and corruption.
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More than 60 Montagnard asylum seekers face deportation to Vietnam after police raided a funeral near the Thai capital and transferred most of those detained to immigration authorities, according to refugee aid organization Boat People SOS.
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New government regulations on social media in Vietnam give authorities increased powers to prevent dissent and control the news, along with the tools to more easily track down critics and silence them, according to an analysis released Tuesday.
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Four United Nations experts have called on Vietnam’s government to immediately
release activist blogger Duong Van Thai, who was sentenced to a dozen years in
prison after allegedly becoming the victim of an enforced disappearance.
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A Vietnamese democracy activist and blogger has been held in detention in Cambodia for more than a week, accused of travelling on a fake passport, the police and his family said.
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A well-known Vietnamese author of a book about the Vietnam War and its consequences is being prosecuted for “abusing democratic freedoms,” state media reported.
Truong Huy San, 64, better known as “The Winning Side” author Huy Duc, has been detained for more than eight months.
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The number of Vietnamese crossing the Channel on small boats jumped in 2024, according to figures from the U.K. interior ministry. They recorded some 3,307 Vietnamese irregular migrants from January to September, up 177% from the previous year, exceeded only by Afghans, Iranians and Syrians.
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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), its member organisation Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), and Global Witness lodged a complaint with the European Commission’s trade department, stating that Hanoi’s ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders working on sustainable development violates the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).
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Vietnamese authorities prevented all Vietnamese invitees from travelling to the United States (US) to attend the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit which is scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C. from 4-5 February.
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An international Christian group has criticized Vietnam’s arrest of a prominent pastor, saying it makes a mockery of the country’s membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Social media posts from this year and last year suddenly disappeared temporarily from the Vietnamese-language Facebook pages of Radio Free Asia, Voice of America and the BBC this week.
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Authorities in Vietnam have barred a monk from leaving the country to attend an
international religious freedom conference in the United States, he told Radio
Free Asia.
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Human Rights First announced today that climate rights activist and lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, jailed in Vietnam since June 2021, is the winner of the 2024 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty. The Baldwin Medal will be presented at an event in the United States later this year to someone on Bach’s behalf, unless he is freed from prison and able to travel to receive the award in person.
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Dau Thanh Tam, a Vietnamese campaigner against corruption in hospitals, has been arrested for criticizing strict new traffic rules, state media reported.
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Vietnamese authorities have arrested a Protestant pastor known for his criticism of the government on Facebook on charges of “anti-state propaganda,” according to his son.
Pastor Nguyen Manh Hung, 71, is the first person to be arrested on the charges
since the beginning of the year, and the second since former Minister of Public
Security To Lam became Vietnam’s general secretary in August 2024.
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A key activist in protests against a 2016 toxic spill that polluted hundreds of kilometers of Vietnam’s coastline has been released early from prison, relatives told Radio Free Asia.
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The rise of a new leader in Vietnam following a power shake-up in mid-2024 brought no reprieve from the government’s relentless repression of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2025. The Vietnamese authorities prohibit independent rights groups, labor unions, media, religious groups, and all other organizations that operate outside government control.
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Vietnamese authorities have asked the family of an ethnic Ede activist Hanoi convicted of “terrorism” in absentia to convince him to surrender instead of appealing the decision to extradite him from Thailand later this month, his family told RFA.
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A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent former lawyer for three years on Friday over Facebook posts, a ruling condemned by rights groups as a fresh attack on freedom of expression in the communist country.
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The Vietnamese government initiated legal proceedings on Tuesday against prominent lawyer Tran Dinh Trien for allegedly infringing upon state interests through social media criticism.
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On January 6-7, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Dafna Rand traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, leading the U.S. delegation to the 28th U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue.
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Vietnamese artist Le Quoc Anh, who is wanted by police on charges of “propaganda against the state,” said the police beat him for several days while he was in custody, before going on the run.
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