URGENT APPEAL – THE OBSERVATORY VNM 001 / 0418 / OBS 041 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment / Sentence Viet Nam April 9, 2018 PARIS-GENEVA, 9 April 2018 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture …
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PARIS, 5th April 2018 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is outraged by the sentences handed down on six peaceful activists today by the Supreme People’s Court in Hanoi at a one-day trial that violated all international standards. Human rights lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài was sentenced …
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Joint Press Release PARIS-GENEVA, April 4, 2018 (VCHR & The Observatory) – Vietnamese authorities must drop all charges against human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, his assistant Le Thu Ha, and seven other members of the Brotherhood for Democracy and immediately release them, the Observatory for the Protection …
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PARIS 24 March 2018 (VCHR) – Three France-based human rights organizations, the FIDH, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the League for Human Rights (LDH) have sent an Open Letter to French President Emmanuel Macron on the occcasion of the visit of Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary …
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PARIS, 20 March 2018 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply disturbed by reports of attacks against 24 Hmong Christians in the north-western highlands in an apparent attempt to force them to renounce their faith. Such attacks and acts of harassments against religious communities have …
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GENEVA, 14 March 2018 (VCHR) – Speaking on behalf of the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, VCHR President Võ Văn Ái denounced the escalation of repression against human rights defenders, bloggers, …
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Download the report (PDF) here PARIS, 28th February 2018 (VCHR) – In a new report entitled “Shrinking Spaces: Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Vietnam during the 2nd Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review”, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) documents one of the worst crack-downs in …
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PARIS, 29th January 2018 (VCHR) – The Most Venerable Thích Quảng Độ, prominent dissident and Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) received an unexpected gift today at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City where he is under house arrest – a …
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PARIS, 5 January 2018 (FIDH & VCHR): Vietnam’s unprecedented repression of dissent during 2017 calls for the international community’s renewed engagement with Hanoi on human rights, FIDH and its member organization Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) said today. “The fact that the EU and the US are …
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The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) joins the European Platform against Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID) in condemning abuses of the right to freedom of religion or belief around the world, and calls for the release of all those deprived of their freedom because of their religious or …
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