Forum Asia Democracy is alarmed to learn that Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy and two M.P.s from the Sam Rainsy Party, Chea Poch and Cheam Channy, have been stripped of their parliamentary immunity. The Cambodian National Assembly took the vote on 3 February 2005, after instructing foreign diplomats, ONGs and …
Read More »The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights warmly welcomes Vietnam’s decision to release several prisoners of conscience in the coming days in a government amnesty for the Tet (Lunar New Year, 9th February 2005). The organization sincerely thanks the United States, the European Union, the European Parliament, the United Nations and …
Read More »The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns Vietnam’s refusal to grant a visa to US Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez to visit Vietnam. Congresswoman Sanchez, a Democrat who represents “Little Saigon” in Santa Ana (California), the largest Vietnamese community in the United States, and who is currently in Thailand on a …
Read More »The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly condemns the unfair prison sentence handed down on several members of the banned Vietnamese Evangelical Mennonite Church simply for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs. At an unfair trial at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday 12 November, which …
Read More »In an Open Letter to the Presidency of the European Union, 109 prominent Members of the European Parliament from all political parties have urged the EU to place human rights, in particular human rights in Vietnam, “at the centre of discussions at the ASEM Summit in Hanoi”, and called for …
Read More »As civil society activists from Asia and Europe leave Vietnam after the closure of the Fifth Asia-Europe (ASEM) People’s Forum held in Hanoi from 6-9 September 2004, many questions remain about Vietnam’s organization of this event, which precedes the official ASEM Summit to be held on 8-9 October in Hanoi. …
Read More »Civil society representatives from Europe and Asia are gathering in Hanoi from 6-9 September 2004 for the Fifth Asia Europe (ASEM) People’s Forum to examine the challenges facing the ASEM process and make recommendations to the official ASEM Summit to be held in Hanoi on 8-9 October 2004. The official …
Read More »The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights has obtained a copy of a letter sent by a high-ranking military veteran to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) leadership which sheds new light on the inner workings of the VCP’s military intelligence services, and exposes deep schisms within the leadership of the VCP. …
Read More »PARIS, 24 July 2004 (VCHR) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights warmly welcomes the decision taken by the UN Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday 23 July to reject a recommendation filed by Vietnam to suspend the consultative status of …
Read More »PARIS, 8 July 2004 (VCHR) – The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights condemn the forthcoming trials of dissidents Tran Khue and Pham Que Duong to be held on 9 and 14 July 2004 respectively. The organizations protest against the grave violations …
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