The People’s Court of Lam Dong province on Tuesday sentenced a local Facebooker to eight years in prison for posting anti-state messages on his Facebook account, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said. Nguyen Quoc Duc Vuong, 29, was convicted of…
On June 25, 2020, Han-Nom researcher Tran Khue, a well-known dissident passed away in Saigon, a number of democracy activists and human rights in Vietnam shared their views on the power and prospects of democracy, human rights and civil society…
The People’s Procuracy of Hanoi City on June 25 issued the indictment to prosecute 29 defendants in the case of “using gasoline to burn 3 police officers to death in Dong Tam commune, My Duc district.” According to the indictment,…
The family of former prisoner of conscience Trinh Ba Khiem has received notices of temporary detentions of his wife Can Thi Theu, who is also a former prisoner of conscience, and two sons Trinh Ba Phuong and Trinh Ba Tu.…
On June 24, the Vietnamese communist regime arrested six activists in Hanoi on the morning of June 24, according to social media sources and activists in Hanoi. The detainees include Trinh Ba Phuong, his younger brother Trinh Ba Tu and…
“In the eyes of the police, we are not considered human anymore,” journalist Pham Doan Trang, representative of the unregistered Liberal Publishing House (LPH), shared about the repression of the Vietnamese government. The fact that the LPH was awarded the…
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…
In his report delivered on June 10 at the Central Committee of Education and Propaganda of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), when presenting “about new points in the draft document which will be submitted to the 13th National…
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have proposed to prosecute 29 people in Dong Tam for “murdering” and “resisting on-duty state officials.” Author Binh Minh has a commentary titled: “Killing the elderly in his bedroom in his private house…
Phung Huu Phu, vice chairman of the “Central Theoretical Council” of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), was recently quoted by the state media as saying “the roadmap for the transition to socialism is a very difficult task, unknown for…
