August 2011

Rights Lawyer Disbarred

August 16, 2011 One of Vietnam’s most prominent human rights lawyers has been expelled from his local bar association in what an opposition group claims

Vietnamese blogger handed harsh prison sentence

August 11, 2011 Bangkok — The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentence handed down on Wednesday to French-Vietnamese blogger Pham Minh Hoang and

Viet nam urged to release jailed blogger

10 August 2011 The Vietnamese authorities must immediately release a French-Vietnamese blogger who has been sentenced to three years in prison on national security charges,

Fresh anti-China rally in Vietnam

August 7, 2011 HANOI — About one hundred people took to Hanoi’s streets to protest against Beijing’s territorial ambitions in the South China Sea —