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Vietnam detained an energy expert a few days after U.S. President Joe Biden visited and announced multiple joint initiatives including on protecting human rights, the 88 Project charity said on Wednesday.
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Vietnam’s government has ordered Peoples’ Committees nationwide to root out a church group already outlawed in the country, seeking to eliminate the controversial group which has increasingly been organizing recruitment activities.
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Two Vietnamese activists who the Biden administration believes were wrongly detained by the country's government are relocating to the United States under an agreement negotiated ahead of the president's recent visit to Hanoi, US officials told Reuters.
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Prisoner of conscience Bui Tuan Lam, known as ‘Onion Bae,’ is being punished after unsuccessfully appealing his five year sentence, his wife told Radio Free Asia.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the recent release of independent Vietnamese journalist Mai Phan Loi 18 months before the end of his sentence, and urges for the release of the 39 other journalists and press freedom defenders detained in the country.
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Vietnamese authorities have released independent journalist Mai Phan Loi 18 months before the end of his 45-month sentence, a family friend told Radio Free Asia this week.
Loi was freed on Sunday, the day U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Hanoi for two days of meetings with Vietnamese leaders.
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The White House fact sheet issued during President Joe Biden's visit to Vietnam weighed in at over 2,600 words. The section on human rights contained just 112 words, including a sub-heading.
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Unites States President Joe Biden should publicly urge Vietnam’s leaders to immediately release all political prisoners and reform abusive laws during his planned visit to Hanoi on September 10, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today.
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In the video that went viral in Vietnam recently, a police officer forbids a church member of a group not recognized by the government from joining online services – and threatens his family members if he doesn’t obey.
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Vietnamese human
rights activist Nguyen Bac Truyen was released from prison in Vietnam on Friday
through mediation by the German government. He should arrive in Germany with his
wife late Friday evening.
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State mismanagement was among the causes of deadly attacks on government facilities in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province, a top security minister said, in the first official acknowledgement that reasons other than “incitement” by hostile forces were to blame for the incident.
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Political prisoner Dang Dinh Bach has been assaulted by policemen after telling his family he’d been threatened by other inmates, according to fellow inmate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc who was visited by his family this week.
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Hours after being detained by police on Sunday, a 28-year-old Vietnamese man died. Family members accuse officers of beating him to death, saying his body was covered with bruises.
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The following is a joint open letter of four Vietnamese human rights organizations addressed to President Biden before his upcoming visit to Vietnam on September 10, 2023.
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Inmates of Vietnam’s notoriously harsh Prison No. 6 in Nghe An province threatened four prisoners of conscience including lawyer Dang Dinh Bach, his wife told Radio Free Asia Friday.
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A court in Vietnam on Wednesday upheld the five and a half year prison sentence for activist Bui Tuan Lam, known as “Onion Bae,” his wife Le Than Lam told Radio Free Asia.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling – a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows.
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A court in Vietnam on Tuesday upheld the eight-year jail sentence of democracy activist Tran Van Bang for anti-state propaganda during a brief hearing in which authorities dismissed the arguments of the defense and “read the old verdict,” according to family members.
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The Vietnamese authorities should quash recent verdicts in the politically motivated cases against the dissidents Tran Van Bang and Bui Tuan Lam and immediately release them, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Two families in southern Vietnam told Radio Free Asia on Friday that their children were recently taken by car to Laos “by a group of human traffickers” who seemed to be preparing to smuggle them into either Myanmar or China.
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An activist who has organized numerous petition drives in coastal Ha Tinh province has been arrested under Vietnam’s Article 331, the statute commonly used by authorities to silence those speaking out for human rights.
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The Vietnam Human Rights Network (VNHRN) held its 16th Congress in Little Saigon, California, USA, on August 19 and 20, 2023. The Congress reviewed the Network’s activities in the past two years, discussed the human rights situation in Vietnam and worldwide, and set out essential strategies and tasks for the coming time.
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Relatives of a stand-up comedian said he was detained by police in Ho Chi Minh City, beaten and then fined for videos about social issues that he posted to his popular YouTube account six years ago.
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The family of death-row prisoner Nguyen Van Chuong met with him at a temporary detention facility on Monday, days after more than a dozen international rights organizations publicly urged Vietnam’s president to halt his impending execution.
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The United Nations called on Vietnamese authorities Friday to immediately halt the looming execution of a man, whose murder conviction came after allegations of torture and fair trial violations.
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and 12 other organizations, submitted an open letter to the State President urging the Vietnamese authorities to halt the execution of Nguyễn Văn Chưởng immediately, and to initiate a prompt, impartial and effective investigation into allegations that he was tortured to compel him to “confess” guilt.
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Almost one year after the Vietnamese government received a United Nations communication regarding rights violations toward an ethnic minority group from the Central Highlands, Hanoi issued a letter of reply saying the ethnic group does not exist.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) recently used its mirror site technology "Operation Collateral Freedom" to restore online access to the German newspaper taz, which had presumably been blocked by the Vietnamese regime.
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A former religious prisoner of conscience in Vietnam has been arrested on an anti-state charge related to his social media activity, just two years after his release from prison following a conviction for “disturbing public order,” local media reported.
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The 2022 Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World, report of the
EU High Representative, is published in a world that is once again marked by war
on the European continent and many other conflicts and crises.
The following text provides an update on the situation in Vietnam. Read the full Report here.
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An obscure cloud service company has been providing state-sponsored hackers with internet services to spy on and extort their victims, a cybersecurity firm said in a report to be published on Tuesday.
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Three members of Vietnam’s Khmer Krom ethnic group who are suspected of distributing books about indigenous peoples’ rights were arrested on Monday in the Mekong Delta region, authorities told local media.
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The Vietnamese Government has proposed a new law which would require every Vietnamese social media user to verify their accounts with their real name and a phone number if they want to be able to make posts or engage with other users.
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Vietnam’s demand that international social media firms use artificial intelligence to identify and remove "toxic" online content is part of an ever expanding and alarming campaign to pressure overseas platforms to suppress freedom of speech in the country, rights groups, experts and activists say.
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A Vietnamese pastor who has continually faced legal issues with his government is reportedly in poor health and being denied access to medical care.
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Three months after anti-corruption journalist Duong Van Thai’s kidnapping in Thailand, the Vietnamese regime has officially charged him with "propaganda against the state". Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces the absurdity of this accusation and calls for his immediate release.
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Vietnamese authorities have detained a former health teacher Duong Tuan Ngoc for posts he made on social media about education, health, and social issues that criticized the government, police reports and family members said.
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The Vietnamese government will allow the Vatican to appoint a resident representative in the communist Southeast Asian country, following years of negotiations amid the fraught diplomatic relationship between the two states.
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Vietnamese authorities have detained a former health teacher Duong Tuan Ngoc for posts he made on social media about education, health, and social issues that criticized the government, police reports and family members said.
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Vietnamese authorities reportedly have heightened security and increased the persecution of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands after a deadly attack last month on government buildings there.
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The appeals court in Hanoi on Thursday rejected land rights activist Truong Van Dung’s appeal against his six-year prison sentence, his wife told RFA.
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An online news site operated by a Vietnamese NGO will be suspended for three months as of Friday in accordance with a government decision as the publication focuses on “overcoming and thoroughly correcting shortcomings” to implement a government press directive.
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Vietnam has released Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist Chau Van Kham about four years into a 12-year prison sentence he received while visiting the country in 2019.
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A Romanian man who was part of a migrant smuggling ring has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people who suffocated in a truck trailer in 2019.
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Vietnam on Monday sentenced activist Phan Son Tung to six years in prison for advocating the formation of an opposition to the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam, his lawyer told Radio Free Asia.
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Vietnam’s government has requested social media platforms to use artificial intelligence models in order to automate the detection and removal of politically sensitive online content, its latest attempt to control what information flows through the country’s digital networks.
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According to religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton is suffering from long term effects of COVID-19 as well as an eye disease which has caused near total loss of vision.
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The Vietnam Human Rights Network will receive nominations for the 2023 Vietnam
Human Rights Award until September 30, 2023.
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Vietnamese authorities have released two family members belonging to an unofficial branch of the Hoa Hao Buddhist community after serving six-year prison sentences for disrupting public order during a confrontation with authorities at their home.
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Ethnic Christians in Vietnam are bracing for potential fallout should they be blamed for recent anti-government violence.
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Three of the five lawyers who defended a Buddhist organization in a case in Vietnam last year – and who were later summoned for police questioning after publicly discussing the case – have fled the country and arrived safely in the United States.
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Authorities in Vietnam said Friday they will prosecute 84 people accused of being involved in deadly attacks on two commune offices in central Dak Lak province and ordered them held in pre-trial detention.
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Legal Initiatives for Vietnam (LIV) and the University of Berkeley International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) have filed a new petition for four detained Vietnamese international human rights defenders, with U.N. Special Procedures calling for immediate release. They are Nguyen Thuy Hanh, the founder of the 50K Fund; blogger Dinh Thi Thu Thuy; journalist Truong Chau Huu Danh; and environmental attorney Dang Dinh Bach.
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Following in the footsteps of FIDH, Members of the European Parliament have demanded explanations from the European Commission on the use and implementation of human rights clauses in the EU’s free trade agreements.
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Vietnamese security forces have arrested more than 50 people accused of being involved in last weekend’s deadly attacks on two commune offices in central Dak Lak province, a Ministry of Public Security spokesman told state media on Friday.
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Vietnam’s military has reportedly deployed helicopters and tanks after violence broke out involving the region’s ethnic minorities four days ago. On Sunday, scores of people attacked two police stations resulting in the death of nine people. In neighbouring Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen has sent more police to the border to prevent spillover.
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The United Kingdom is concerned by the arrest of Hoang Thi Minh Hong, former leader of environmental campaign group CHANGE. This is the latest in a pattern of arrests of environmental advocates in Vietnam.
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Religious and civil organizations representing Vietnam’s Montagnard people said they weren’t involved in armed attacks on two police stations that left nine people dead over the weekend.
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Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands have arrested 39 people in connection with an armed attack on two police stations that left nine people dead, according to state media reports Tuesday.
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Lawyer and environmentalist Dang Dinh Bach serving a five-year
prison sentence for tax evasion will begin a hunger strike on Friday unless he
is immediately and unconditionally released, his wife told Radio Free Asia.
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The European Union should make use of a bilateral dialogue on June 9, 2023 in Hanoi to press the Vietnamese government to end its systemic violations of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The German government says it is concerned by the recent detention of a prominent environmental campaigner in Vietnam. It warned that a recent multi-billion-dollar deal to help the country phase out coal use requires the involvement of civil society activists.
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A court in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province has sentenced music lecturer Dang Dang Phuoc to eight years in prison and four years of probation for allegedly "conducting anti-state propaganda,” his wife and one of his lawyers told RFA Tuesday.
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A day ahead of his trial on Tuesday, the wife of a music lecturer arrested in early September on charges of "conducting anti-state propaganda” said he is innocent and called for his release.
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The Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges and immediately release the anti-corruption campaigner Dang Dang Phuoc, Human Rights Watch said today.
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The United States and United Nations on Friday criticized Vietnam's detention of members of an environmental group including its founder, saying such actions were part of a broader trend toward curbing free speech.
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We are deeply troubled by the detention of prominent environmental human rights defender Hoang Thi
Minh Hong in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, on Wednesday this week.
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Vietnam has arrested well-known environmentalist Hoang Thi Minh Hong for tax evasion, a government official said Thursday in the latest example of the Vietnamese government’s routine use of financial charges to imprison green activists.
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