In a joint submission made to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (CCPR) today, FIDH and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) regret that the Vietnamese government failed to take any steps towards the implementation of key recommendations made by the CCPR, after the review of the situation …
Read More »Three independent journalists jailed for up to 15 years in Vietnam
PARIS, 6 January 2021 (VCHR) – Vietnam has begun the New Year by sentencing three independent journalists to draconian prison terms at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Court that lasted only a few hours. Phạm Chí Dũng is condemned to 15 years in prison for “making, storing, …
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