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Viet Tan in the News

Viet Tan in the News

Vietnam’s Trials

(The Wall Street Journal) - January 14, 2013 Hanoi prosecutes its citizens for peaceful dissent. A Vietnamese court convicted 14 democracy activists last week and sentenced them to a range of punishments from probation to 13 years in prison. Sources in the dissident community now tell us that a date has been set next (...) (18/01/2013)


RWB can prove innocence of convicted blogger Paulus Le Son

(Reporters Without Borders) - January 11, 2013. Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the groundless verdict handed down yesterday by a court in northern city of Vinh against eight bloggers and cyber dissidents. They were among a total of 14 Catholic activists sentenced to between three and 13 years’ imprisonment. The (...) (13/01/2013)


Bloggers imprisoned in mass sentencing in Vietnam

(CPJ) - Bangkok, January 9, 2013—At least five independent bloggers were sentenced today to harsh jail terms in Vietnam, according to local and international news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this move and calls on Vietnamese authorities to reverse the charges on appeal and (...) (10/01/2013)


Viet Nam: Release 13 activists jailed on baseless charges, stop crackdown on dissidents

(Amnesty International) - January 9, 2013 The conviction and heavy sentencing of 13 peaceful Catholic activists in Viet Nam today flies in the face of justice and is part of an escalating government crackdown on freedom of expression, Amnesty International said. A court in Nghe An province today sentenced the 13 (...) (9/01/2013)


Vietnam Puts 14 Dissidents on Trial for Subversion

(Voice of America) - January 8, 2013 Vietnamese authorities have put 14 rights activists on trial on charges of trying to overthrow the Communist government, in the largest subversion case to be prosecuted in Vietnam in years. The defendants were arrested in 2011 on suspicion of involvement with banned opposition (...) (8/01/2013)


Meeting delay a sign of cooling US-Vietnam ties

(Associated Press) - December 11, 2012 HANOI, Vietnam — The U.S. and Vietnam, former enemies who share concerns about China’s rise, are finding that one issue — human rights — is keeping them from becoming closer friends. Stress between the nations is clear from a delay in an annual meeting between Washington and Hanoi (...) (12/12/2012)


W&M law professor to represent activist imprisoned in Vietnam

(William & Mary) - December 3, 2012 - by staff William & Mary Law School Professor Linda Malone will serve as a pro bono counsel for Nguyen Quoc Quan, an American citizen and democracy activist who has been detained in Vietnam since April 17, 2012. Quan is a member of Viet Tan (the Vietnam Reform Party). (...) (9/12/2012)


Imprisoned Vietnamese pro-democracy activist begins hunger strike

(Ngo Mai Huong) - Today, my husband will spend his 59th birthday far from his two children. We won’t be celebrating with our usual traditions: a modest cake, the quiet dinner at a restaurant, a reading from his many love letters. Instead, he sits in a Vietnamese jail cell, charged with “attempting to overthrow the (...) (21/11/2012)


U.S. officials visit imprisoned activist in Vietnam

(The Sacramento Bee) - November 6, 2012 Officials from the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City – formerly known as Saigon – have visited Elk Grove political activist Nguyen "Richard" Quan five times since his arrest on terrorism charges more than six months (...) (6/11/2012)


Elk Grove man faces trial in Vietnam on subversion charges

(The Sacramento Bee) - November 3, 2012 After more than six months in a Vietnamese prison, pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan of Elk Grove is scheduled to go on trial for plotting to overthrow the communist government. (6/11/2012)