Month: January 2011

Tran Thi Thuy

Birth date: February 2, 1971 Activity: Land rights activist, merchant Date of arrest: August 16, 2010 Sentence: Sentenced to 8…

Tran Anh Kim

Birth date: 1949 Activity: Retired military officer Date of arrest: July 7, 2009 Sentence: Sentenced to 5.5 years imprisonment followed…

Phan Thanh Hai

Birth date: 1969 Activity: Land rights activist, merchant Date of arrest: October 18, 2010 Sentence: Detained without trial Charge: Propaganda…

Introducing Viet Tan App

January 27, 2011 We’d like to introduce our free new Viet Tan App, available for immediate use. The Viet Tan…

Viet Nam Activist Prison Sentence Condemned

January 26, 2011 Amnesty International has condemned the eight-year prison sentence handed down to a Vietnamese pro-democracy activist and former…

Vietnamese court sentences former official to 8 years in jail for calling for democracy

January 26, 2011 HANOI, Vietnam — A former Vietnamese Communist Party official was sentenced to eight years in jail Wednesday…

Vietnam: Intensifying Repression of Human Rights

January 25, 2011 Tran Huynh Duy Thuc stands at the dock during his trial at the People’s Court in Vietnam’s…

Vietnam: Upcoming trial of detained human rights defender Mr Vi Duc Hoi

January 21, 2011 The trial of human rights defender Mr Vi Duc Hoi is scheduled to begin on 26 January…

Statement on the 11th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party

January 19, 2011 The Vietnamese Communist Party concluded its 11th Congress today, conferring to itself monopoly power over the nation…

Can Vietnam Greens Block a Bauxite Mining Project?

January 18, 2011 By Helen Clark / Hanoi On Oct. 4 last year, as toxic red sludge from a Hungarian…

Vietnam to tighten control of online media

January 14, 2011 Vietnam will reportedly tighten state control of bloggers and other media with new regulations that enhance its…

Concern as Vietnam plays ’national security’ censorship card

January 13, 2011 Bangkok—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about a new executive decree issued on January 6 in…