Writer Pham Thanh, the owner of blog Ba Dam Xoe, was taken from a detention center to a mental hospital. The dissident writer’s family members told VOA the move caused further confusion and anxiety for the family when the authorities…
Three members of Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (from left): Le Huu Minh Tuan, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Pham Chi Dung On November 10, 2020, the People’s Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City issued a 12-page indictment, prosecuting three key members…
Many social activists and relatives of journalist Pham Doan Trang said that Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper is trying to discourage and distort the truth about an “object” that unfortunately falls into their sights in the new article about Pham…
Lawyer Dang Dinh Manh has just registered to defend Ms. Pham Doan Trang at the Security Investigation Agency of the Hanoi Police Department with a petition about the jurisdiction of the case. According to the Ministry of Public Security, Hanoi’s…
On October 7, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security confirmed that it had “arrested” independent journalist Pham Doan Trang in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City on October 6. The short announcement posted on the ministry’s Electronic Information Portal said that…
A series of articles in many languages, from many news agencies around the world, simultaneously reported and analyzed the detention of dissident journalist Pham Doan Trang, who was charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda.” With this allegation, Ms. Pham Doan Trang…
Today, October 7, 2020, is the second and last session of the US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. But at 11.30 pm on October 6, police arrested journalist Pham Doan Trang – a famous human rights activist in Vietnam. Ms. Trang was…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, October 2, 2020 For immediate release According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of September 30, 2020, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or other forms of detention.…
A copy of the “Dong Tam Report” has just been published for the 3rd edition in late September. It is said to be the most complete version in Vietnamese-English bilingual, after the previous two editions were released on January 16…
On September 23, Ms. Nguyen Thi Chau, the wife of engineer Nguyen Ngoc Anh, a prisoner of conscience currently serving his imprisonment at Xuan Loc Prison camp, Dong Nai province posted on her personal Facebook account her husband’s information and…
