Vietnam: Arrest and incommunicado detention of eight human rights defenders
August 30, 2011 Between 30 July and 16 August 2011, eight human rights defenders were arrested by police officers and…
August 30, 2011
Month: August 2011
Eight Vietnamese activists ’held for subversion’
August 30, 2011 HANOI — At least eight political activists have been arrested on subversion charges in Vietnam in a…
August 30, 2011
Protests Raise Freedom Prospects
August 27, 2011 An analysis by Parameswaran Ponnudurai Recent anti-China protests in Vietnam spark a new awareness about freedom of…
August 27, 2011
US senators warn Vietnam on priest arrest
August 25, 2011 WASHINGTON — Sixteen US senators on Wednesday urged Vietnam to free a dissident priest who has a…
August 26, 2011
U.S. concerned about Vietnam detention of protesters
August 23, 2011 The U.S. embassy in Vietnam voiced concern on Tuesday about the detention of dozens of people who…
August 24, 2011
Activists accuse Vietnam of cyber attack
HANOI — A US-based opposition group labelled "terrorist" by Vietnam on Monday blamed the communist government for a cyber attack…
August 22, 2011
Vietnamese authorities orchestrate DDoS attack against Viet Tan website
August 22, 2011 Beginning on August 13, hackers launched a sustained attack against www.viettan.org. A network of compromised computers, or…
August 22, 2011
Vietnam stops anti-China protest, detains many
August 21, 2011 (Reuters) - Vietnamese police detained scores of people taking part in an anti-China rally in Hanoi on…
August 22, 2011
Huynh Van Dong, a vietnamese lawyer arbitrarily disbarred by his Bar Association
August 19, 2011 The International Observatory for Lawyers expresses its greatest indignation regarding Mr. Huynh Van Dong’s arbitrary disbarment from…
August 20, 2011
Vietnamese land-rights activists appeal sentences amid government’s dissident crackdown
August 18, 2011 HANOI, Vietnam — A Vietnamese appeals court Thursday reduced the sentences of two land-rights activists convicted of…
August 18, 2011
Vietnam: Free Peaceful Land Rights Activists
August 18, 2011 Petitioners Imprisoned for Helping Rural Poor, Practicing Their Rights (Bangkok, August 18, 2011) – The Vietnam government…
August 18, 2011
Hanoi regime must free peaceful activists
August 17, 2011 Four imprisoned democracy and land rights activists will appear before an Appeals Court in Ben Tre province,…
August 18, 2011