New Report on Violations of Civil and Political Rights in Vietnam

PARIS, 27 May 2025 (VCHR) – On 26 May 2025, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published a Joint Shadow Report ahead of the review of Vietnam’s fourth periodic report on its implementation of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The review will take place on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Geneva before the UN Human Rights Committee and in the presence of a delegation from the government of Vietnam. VCHR and FIDH will be in Geneva to present their report and express their concerns to the UN experts on the serious abuses of civil and political rights in Vietnam.

The VCHR-FIDH Joint Shadow Report provides information on the following issues:

• The restrictive domestic legal framework and use of “national security” provisions to arbitrarily detain human rights defenders and government critics;
• Use of the death penalty, including wrongful convictions and inhumane conditions on death row;
• Widespread use of torture, deaths in custody and internment of political prisoners in mental facilities;
• Inhumane detention conditions, solitary confinement and denial of medical care;
• Lack of access to justice, unfair trials and denial of legal defence;
• Violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief;
• Crackdown on civil society, restrictions on freedom of expression, the press and Internet, and acts of transnational repression;
• Violations of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly;
• New legislation restricting the right to freedom of association;
• Restrictions on the right to vote and the Communist Party’s control of the electoral process.

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VCHR-FIDH Shadow Report to the UN Human Rights Committee 2025

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