The Vietnamese government’s continued imprisonment of Chau Van Kham, a Sydney-based human rights activist and member of Viet Tan, is an affront to Australia and basic human rights.
In a shocking series of events, on January 9, Vietnamese authorities mobilised 3000 riot police to raid Hoanh Hamlet, Dong Tam Commune, and kill 84-year-old community leader Le Dinh Kinh. This ruthless and disproportionate use of violence before the Lunar New Year is yet another tactic Vietnamese authorities have used to suppress land rights demands by the people of Dong Tam.
In a brief trial earlier today, Vietnamese authorities sentenced Tran Van Quyen, Nguyen Van Vien, and Australian national Chau Van Kham to 10 to 12 years in prison on baseless charges of “terrorism”. Today’s arbitrary verdict confirms that legal proceedings in Vietnam are a sham.
Viet Tan condemns the trial to be held on November 11 by Vietnamese authorities against Australian citizen Chau Van Kham, and Nguyen Van Vien and Tran Van Quyen from Vietnam. The Vietnamese authorities have again demonstrated their arbitrary application of the legal system to crackdown on peaceful expression.
A group of human rights activists and organisations from Southeast Asia are calling to stop the attacks on democracy and media activists, as well as other individuals-at-risk,
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.
