On June 19, 2020, the US-based rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses the Vietnamese government of increasing its crackdown on dissidents and human rights activists before the 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) scheduled…
Nearly 95% of the legislators of Vietnam’s National Assembly voted in the process of approving the two agreements with the EU: the Free Trade Agreement and the Investment Protection Agreement. After the Vietnamese parliament completes the procedure for ratifying the…
Press release, May 26, 2020 In recent years, Vietnam’s communist regime has intensified persecution against the unsanctioned Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), a civil professional organization of independent writers working for freedom of press in Vietnam.Since the Association was…
Vietnam’s persecution against independent journalists, bloggers or activists, most recently wotj the arrests of Mr. Pham Thanh and Nguyen Tuong Thuy, continues to be under monitoring of local activists and international observers. Speaking on a BBC talk show on Thursday,…
On May 23, 2020, the Security Investigation Agency of Ho Chi Minh City’s Police Department probed and arrested Mr. Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Vice President of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN) with the allegation of “Making, storing, spreading information,…
After the arrest of poet Tran Duc Thach on April 23, within a few days Vietnam’s communist regime continued to arrest writer Pham Thanh on May 21 and today May 23 detained Vice president of the Independent Journalists Association of…
A group of UN human rights experts earlier this year sent an appeal to question the Vietnamese government about the detention of independent journalist Pham Chi Dung, chairman of the Independent JournalistsAssociation of Vietnam (IJAVN), requesting a response in 60…
