BRUSSELS, 27 April 2016 – For almost six months, the family and friends of imprisoned Vietnamese lawyer and activist Nguyen Van Dai have been waiting to hear what will happen to him. Dai was arrested on 16 December 2015, hours before a planned meeting with EU officials in Hanoi. Since …
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Vice-President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), Penelope Faulkner, speaks to CIVICUS about the current challenges faced by civil society in Vietnam and the role of international solidarity networks in supporting the creation of a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders. 1) Over the past …
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The head of a banned Buddhist church in Vietnam on Thursday expressed gratitude to the international community for advocating for his release from house arrest and reaffirmed his commitment to democracy activism in the one party communist nation. Thich Quang Do, the 87-year-old leader of the Unified Buddhist …
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As Hanoi was opposing a U.N. human rights resolution, activist Dinh Dang Dinh died of medical neglect. The United Nations Human Rights Council last month extended the mandate of a special rapporteur to monitor abuses of human rights defenders around the world. While that vote was happening, one …
Read More »GENEVA, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Western countries on Wednesday denounced Vietnam’s jailing of bloggers and curbs on the Internet and called on its Communist government to respect basic freedoms of worship and expression. Britain’s diplomat Ruth Tumer told the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council that her country regretted …
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WASHINGTON, 11 April 2013 (AFP) – Lawmakers and activists called Thursday for the United States to press Vietnam to free dissidents and allow greater religious freedom as the two nations hold talks on human rights. The two nations hold an annual dialogue Friday in Hanoi on Vietnam’s human rights record, …
Read More »U.S. lawmakers and rights activists called on President Barack Obama’s administration on Thursday to pressure Vietnam to rein in abuses against bloggers, religious followers, land rights activists, and other critics on the eve of a bilateral human rights dialogue. Pointing out that this year Vietnam could end up …
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A rights group says new rules in Vietnam give the state more power to curb religious freedom. Radio Free Asia (RFA), 2012-11-29 Elderly women pray at a Buddhist pagoda in downtown Hanoi, Aug. 20, 2010 (Photo AFP) A new decree on religion in Vietnam gives the one-party communist state greater …
Read More »Vietnam sentences two musicians to up to six years for “anti-state propaganda.” Police and security staff stand outside the Ho Chi Minh City courthouse, Sept, 24, 2012 (AFP) A court in Vietnam sent two prominent musicians to prison Tuesday for writing politically sensitive songs, drawing criticism from rights …
Read More »The visit to the Giac Minh Pagoda in central Vietnam’s Danang is an apparent move to highlight religious freedom. A suspected plainclothes policeman twists the arm of Thich Thanh Quang outside the Giac Minh Pagoda, Aug. 17, 2012 – Photo courtesy of IBIB A U.S. diplomat has made …
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