Activist Dinh Thi Thu Thuy was sentenced to 7 years in prison at the first-instance hearing carried out by the People’s Court of Hau Giang province on January 20 as the trial panel found her guilty of “conducting anti-state propaganda”…
Many politicians around the world have repeatedly called on the Vietnamese government to respect human rights and stop all arrests and persecution of dissidents. The letter from the eight US congressmen to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of…
The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday sentenced three freelance journalists to a long prison term on the charges of “Making, possessing, distributing or disseminating information, documents and articles against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, January 2, 2021 According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of December 31, 2020, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or other forms of detention. The number does…
According to observers and activists, the human rights situation in Vietnam in 2020 continues to decline. Many people believe that there are two main reasons for this trend: one is that the COVID-19 pandemic has made international focus on economic…
The Police Department of Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Gia Lai said the demolition campaign of an “evil cult” which aims to restore FULRO was De Ga Protestantism, was one of its outstanding achievements at the 2020 work summary conference…
The fact that the famous Facebooker, and former journalist Truong Chau Huu Danh, was probed and arrested in the afternoon of December 17 is attracting Vietnamese public opinion. Mr. Danh (38 years old, living in An Vinh Ngai commune, Tan…
This year’s International Human Rights Day takes place in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic raging around the world, while in Vietnam, the government has increased its repression and arrests of activists, bloggers, and voices criticizing the communist government. According…
Whether Vietnam’s human rights have progressed positively in 2020, and what needs to be done to improve and enhance are a number of points set by a number of human rights observers and advocates in Vietnam and private views with…
“Vietnam is one of the Southeast Asian countries with poor human rights records, with a higher number of political prisoners than any other country.” Phil Robertson, Deputy Director of Asia Division of Human Rights Watch International – HRW, spoke to…
