One of Vietnam’s longest serving political prisoners was released on August 2 after eight years of arbitrary detention and harsh prison conditions. Nguyen Dang Minh Man, a photojournalist who documented peaceful demonstrations, returned to her home in Tra Vinh province, southern Vietnam on Friday afternoon.
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As the Vietnamese government tries to enforce its new “cybersecurity” law, free expression activists, technologists, journalists and policy makers will meet for the 3rd Vietnam
The Hanoi government has detained Vietnamese-Australian human rights advocate Chau Van Kham for nearly three weeks and used state media to defame him and the pro-democracy work of Viet Tan.
Security police in Saigon detained Chau Van Kham, a member of Viet Tan, and Nguyen Van Vien, a member of the Brotherhood for Democracy, on January 13, 2019.
On the eve of Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a coalition of NGOs and activists are calling on members of the UN Human Rights Council to shine a light on the crackdown in Vietnam.
Viet Tan is pleased to announce Tran Thi Nga as the recipient of the inaugural Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award. A blogger and social activist, Tran Thi Nga was sentenced to 9 years in prison and 5 years house arrest on July 25, 2017.
With the crackdown against human rights in Vietnam and the need to advocate for human rights protections, Viet Tan is officially announcing the establishment of the Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award.
Viet Tan, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, Reporters Without Borders have launched an interactive, online database of Vietnamese political prisoners. Stopthecrackdown.com provides biographical data of detained
Viet Tan is a pro-democracy organization advocating for human rights and social justice through peaceful means. Our members inside Vietnam and around the world have worked with civil society and elected officials to increase political space and empower the Vietnamese people.
A successful businessman turned community organizer and blogger, Le Dinh Luong was sentenced to 20 years followed by 5 years house arrest. He was convicted for “attempting to overthrow the state” in a sham trial lasting five hours in Nghe An province in central Vietnam.
TORONTO, CANADA (May 18, 2018): Frontline organizers and activists representing Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India, Syria, Philippines and Ethiopia formed a coalition to hold
