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Vietnam: New sentencing of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong

The Observatory has been informed about the second conviction and prison sentence of imprisoned land rights defender Mr Trinh Ba Phuong. Mr Ba Phuong has campaigned against land grabbing and to highlight its impact on small-scale farmers across the country, along with his mother Ms Can Thi Theu and brother …
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Vietnam: United Nations body highlights gross violations of civil and political rights
VCHR & FIDH denounce gross Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam before top UN Human Rights body
New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam
Emmanuel Macron’s official visit to Vietnam: Civil society organisations call on the President to take action on human rights

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Reuters: Detained Vietnam monk supports Tibetans after self-immolations

HANOI, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s highest-profile religious detainee has sent a letter of support to the Dalai Lama after a series of self-immolations by Tibetans, saying China’s crackdown on Tibetan areas was a challenge to all humanity, a Buddhist group said on Thursday. Activist monk Thich Quang Do invoked …

ABC Radio: Detained Vietnamese monk supports Tibetan struggle

ABC Radio – 16 February 2012 – Vietnam’s highest-profile religious detainee has sent a letter to the Dalai Lama saying China’s crackdown on Tibetan areas is a challenge to all humanity. The France-based International Buddhist Information Bureau says activist monk Thich Quang Do who is under house arrest at a …

Vietnam must free prominent Blogger Dieu Cay, detained incommunicado and feared to have disappeared

PARIS, 13 February 2012 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is deeply concerned about the physical integrity of prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai (alias Dieu Cay), who has been detained incommunicado for the past 16 months on charges of “propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam”. His …

Buddhist dissident Thich Quang Do is nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

PARIS, 9 February 2012 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is informed that the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has been nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. The deadline for nominations expired on 1st February 2012, and the …

Vietnam – EU: Release of rights and pro-democracy activists litmus test for human rights dialogue

PARIS-GENEVA-BANGKOK, January 10, 2012 (VCHR & OBSERVATORY) – The first full-fledged human rights dialogue of the European Union with Vietnam needs to be accompanied with the release of all human rights defenders currently imprisoned, in detention, or under house arrest, said the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the …

Socialist Republic of Vietnam : Draft Decree on Management, Provision and Use of Internet Services and Information on the Network

GOVERNMENT ——— No.: ……/2012/ND-CP SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness ————— Hanoi, date…..month……year 2012 DECREE ON MANAGEMENT, PROVISION AND USE OF INTERNET SERVICES AND INFORMATION ON THE NETWORK (The 3rd draft) ——————- THE GOVERNMENT – Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated December 25, …