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Environmental and Human Rights Defenders in Vietnam spend International Human Rights Day behind bars

PARIS, 10 December 2023 (VCHR) – As the world marks the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) recalls that thousands of human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers, …
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Asian Correspondent : Thailand bars Vietnamese human rights activist… again

Vo Van Ai, centre, is pictured here with Anwar Ibrahim, right, and Penelope Faulkner. Pic: AP In September, a press event on human rights in Vietnam was to take place at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand (FCCT), when the FCCT got a letter from the Thai ministry …

The Irrawaddy : Thailand Again Bars Vietnamese Activist

BANGKOK, 15 October 2010 (The Irrawaddy) – Thailand has drawn fire by again preventing a prominent Vietnamese dissident from speaking at a conference in Bangkok, one year after the founding of the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights. The president of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, Vo …

The Nation : EDITORIAL
Thailand has tarnished its own rights image

Government clampdown on human rights press conference does not follow the Asean objective to promote discussion of the issue Thailand’s human rights record will come under further scrutiny this week because the Foreign Ministry has just pressured the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) into cancelling a scheduled …

VOA : Thailand Halts News Conference on Vietnam’s Human Rights Record

President of Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, Vo Van Ai (Photo AFP) BANGKOK, 13 September 2010 (VOA) – Thailand has refused two human rights advocates entry into the country to prevent them from holding a news conference about a report on conditions in Vietnam. Vo Van Ai and …

AFP : Thailand denies entry to Vietnam activists: group

Agence France Presse BANGKOK, 13 September 2010 (AFP) – Thailand has refused entry to two human rights campaigners due to speak at a Bangkok press conference Monday about alleged abuses in neighbouring Vietnam, a journalists’ organisation said. Airport security officers are seen at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok. …

The Bangkok Post : FIDH slams Thai-Vietnam collusion

The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has strongly criticized Thailand collusion with Vietnam in censoring discussions on Vietnam’s human rights issues in the Thai soil. “We are dismayed by the Thai authorities’ decision to ban entry on the Thai territory of two well-known human rights defenders …