{"id":57621,"date":"2026-10-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queme.org\/?p=57621"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:35:53","slug":"ue-doit-faire-pression-sur-to-lam-sur-les-dh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queme.org\/fr\/ue-doit-faire-pression-sur-to-lam-sur-les-dh\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019UE doit faire pression sur T\u00f4 L\u00e2m sur les droits de l\u2019Homme lors de sa visite \u00e0 Bruxelles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARIS, le 19 octobre 2026 (VCHR) – Le Comit\u00e9 Vietnam pour la d\u00e9fense des droits de l\u2019Homme (VCHR)<\/strong> se joint \u00e0 12 organisations internationales des droits humains pour presser l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne d\u2019aborder la tr\u00e8s inqui\u00e9tante situation des libert\u00e9s et droits fondamentaux avec le pr\u00e9sident et secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Parti communiste du Vietnam T\u00f4 L\u00e2m lors de sa visite \u00e0 Bruxelles le 22 octobre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans une lettre commune adress\u00e9e \u00e0 Antonio Costa, pr\u00e9sident du Conseil de l\u2019Europe, et \u00e0 Ursula von der Leyen, pr\u00e9sidente de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, ces organisations ont d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 les violations g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9es des libert\u00e9s fondamentales et des droits de l\u2019Homme au Vietnam, notamment les droits des travailleurs, la libert\u00e9 de religion ou de conviction, la libert\u00e9 sur Internet, la libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression et la libert\u00e9 de la presse. Elles ont \u00e9galement d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 l\u2019intensification de la r\u00e9pression transnationale et la d\u00e9tention arbitraire de plus de 160 prisonniers politiques, parmi lesquels des militants pro-d\u00e9mocratie, des d\u00e9fenseurs des droits de l\u2019Homme, des journalistes ind\u00e9pendants, des militants pour le climat, ainsi que des d\u00e9fenseurs des droits des travailleurs et des droits sur la terre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab La r\u00e9pression incessante exerc\u00e9e par le Vietnam ne viole pas seulement les droits de ses citoyens mais contrevient \u00e9galement aux engagements pris \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de l\u2019UE dans le cadre de l\u2019Accord de partenariat et de coop\u00e9ration UE-Vietnam et de l\u2019Accord de libre-\u00e9change UE-Vietnam (EVFTA) de 2020 \u00bb<\/em><\/strong>, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Penelope Faulkner, pr\u00e9sidente du VCHR. \u00ab L\u2019UE doit insister sur le fait que tous les accords conclus avec le Vietnam doivent conduire \u00e0 de r\u00e9els progr\u00e8s en mati\u00e8re de droits de l\u2019Homme sur le terrain \u00bb<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lire la lettre ci-dessous (en anglais) :<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ant\u00f3nio Costa
President of the European Council
European Council
Rue de la Loi 175, 1048 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200, 1040 Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brussels, 16 October 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RE: Addressing Human Rights Absuses During Vietnam\u2019s To Lam\u2019s Visit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear President Costa and President von der Leyen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are writing to urge you to raise grave concerns over the Vietnamese government\u2019s intensifying repression during the upcoming visit to Brussels of To Lam, Vietnam\u2019s President and Communist Party General Secretary. Specifically, we urge you to emphasize how ongoing human rights violations, including labor rights abuses, breach not only Vietnam\u2019s international obligations, but also those undertaken in bilateral deals with the EU, and to lay out consequences for persistent non-compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 1 of the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement<\/a> (PCA) identifies respect for human rights as an \u201cessential element<\/a>\u201d of the agreement, and the 2020 EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) includes a series of binding and enforceable human rights, labor rights and environmental obligations<\/a>. In 2019, before the European Parliament\u2019s vote on consent to the EVFTA, Vietnam pledged to ratify International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise by 2023, but has yet to do so. Vietnam also claimed to have undertaken several key reforms to its labor laws, most notably, amending its Labor Law and Trade Union Law ostensibly to allow the existence of independent worker representative organizations\u2014nascent factory-unions. But the government then took no further actions to implement these reforms or issue regulations to allow these entities to form. No independent worker organizations have since formed, and seven years after the finalization of the EVFTA, no independent trade unions exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU has taken no action in response to Vietnam\u2019s repeated breaches of its EVFTA-related obligations and pledges; instead, in January it upgraded<\/a> bilateral relations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vietnamese government has sharply intensified its repression of basic freedoms over the past 10 years. This is a period during which To Lam served first as Minister<\/a> of Public Security (2016-2024), and since then both as President and General Secretary of the Communist Party, in an unprecedented consolidation of power that further reduced the government\u2019s limited checks and balances. On To Lam\u2019s watch, the Vietnamese police launched a far-reaching crackdown that decimated the country\u2019s civil society, stepped up transnational repression<\/a>, and expand the scope and use of draconian laws<\/a> that criminalize the exercise of freedom of expression in contravention of Vietnam’s international human rights obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are now more than 160 political prisoners<\/a> in Vietnam, jailed in squalid conditions for exercising their right to freedom of expression or for peaceful human rights, democracy and\/or climate activism. Sentences follow grossly unfair trials, often marred by public \u201cconfessions\u201d extorted through torture or other ill-treatment. Human Rights Watch has documented<\/a> how the Vietnamese authorities are increasingly using a vague, overbroad, and abusive provision of the Penal Code (article 331) on prohibiting the \u201cabuse of democratic freedoms,\u201d both to silence prominent activists and to retaliate against ordinary people who complain about poor services, corruption, or police abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2016 Press Law commands that the press must serve as the voice of the Communist Party, its organizations and state agencies. Vaguely defined laws prohibiting acts such as \u201cdisseminating anti-state propaganda\u201d or the \u201cabuse\u201d of democratic freedoms are used to arbitrarily detain independent journalists, bloggers, online commentators, and human rights defenders, who are regularly held incommunicado during pre-trial stages over prolonged periods of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vietnam\u2019s Cybersecurity Law <\/a>(2018), Decree 147\/2024<\/a>, and Personal Data Protection Law<\/a> require foreign platforms to localise data, and fulfil takedown and disclosure demands within 24\u201348 hours or risk fines and bandwidth throttling. Compliance rates are alarming, nearing 100% for Meta<\/a>, YouTube<\/a> and TikTok<\/a> indicating systematic platform co-operation with censorship and surveillance, which creates serious human rights compliance risk for the tech sector, including EU companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We urge you to publicly and privately voice concerns about Vietnam\u2019s worsening record during To Lam\u2019s visit and press the Vietnamese government to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n