{"id":1254,"date":"2009-09-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queme.org\/all\/all\/campaigners-attack-vietnam-over-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:11:14","slug":"campaigners-attack-vietnam-over-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/campaigners-attack-vietnam-over-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>AFP<\/i> : Campaigners attack Vietnam over human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"82\" height=\"45\" src=\"https:\/\/queme.org\/app\/uploads\/2005\/02\/afp.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36049\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <span class=\"date\">Agence France Presse<\/span><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GENEVA, 24 sept 2009 (AFP) &#8211; Human rights campaigners on Thursday said Vietnam had rejected UN recommendations to improve rights and criticised a &#8220;climate of fear&#8221; which they said was stifling freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights said Hanoi had refused to comply with around 50 suggestions from the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A climate of fear prevails in Vietnam against freedom of expression, of the press and against peaceful assembly, &#8221; the two groups said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN Human Rights Council made its recommendations after one of its regular examinations of a state&#8217;s human rights records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Vietnam rejected these suggestions, the Paris-based FIDH and the Vietnamese group said, and pointed to Hanoi&#8217;s refusal to overhaul its laws in a number of areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These included regulations on &#8220;national security&#8221; and &#8220;the misuse of democratic freedoms to the detriment of the state&#8217;s interests&#8221;, the non-governmental organisations said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The groups also criticised laws permitting the detention of dissidents without trial and the arrest of so-called &#8220;cyberdissidents&#8221;, who use the Internet to protest against the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dro\/sr\/har<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France Presse GENEVA, 24 sept 2009 (AFP) &#8211; Human rights campaigners on Thursday said Vietnam had rejected UN recommendations to improve rights and criticised a &#8220;climate of fear&#8221; which they said was stifling freedom of expression. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights said Hanoi had refused &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":43179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,60],"tags":[1287,821,313,251,815],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-press-review","tag-cyberdissidents-2","tag-fidh-3","tag-national-security","tag-upr","tag-vchr-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}