Prominent blogger and former university lecturer Pham Minh Hoang was taken by authorities on Friday evening in Saigon. According to his wife, police entered his home, initially refused to provide the order for his detention, then quickly read the order out loud before taking him to the local public security station.
May 3, 2017 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Vietnamese authorities must immediately release Nguyen Van Hoa, a video-journalist who has been detained
One of Vietnam’s most prominent political prisoners was released and exiled after almost six years of arbitrary detention and harsh treatment. Dang Xuan Dieu arrived in Paris today following sustained pressure for his freedom from the EU, human rights groups, elected officials, and Vietnamese at home and around the world.
December 16, 2016 The Vietnamese government must immediately and unconditionally release human rights lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai who has been arbitrarily detained for
December 9, 2016 December 10, 2016 marks the 68th anniversary of when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. This document has become the
In a victory for freedom of association in Vietnam, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for the immediate release of Vietnamese activist and photojournalist Nguyen Dang Minh Man.
Viet Tan is a pro-democracy organization working to promote social justice and human rights through nonviolent means. Our members inside Vietnam and around the world have worked with non-governmental organizations, elected officials, and civil society to increase political space for the Vietnamese people.
Viet Tan alongside Vietnamese and Taiwanese civil society organizations will be holding a press conference at the headquarters of Formosa Plastics Corporation (Dunhua North Road, Taipei 201) at 10am on August 10th.
To: • Vietnamese people in Vietnam and around the world • International governments, organisations and foreign media It has been three months since fish were
May 22, 2016 On the eve of the National Assembly elections in Vietnam, state-sponsored hackers fail to shut down the Lá Phiếu (Ballot) app. Through
May 18, 2016 The Lá Phiếu (Ballot) app is now available on Google Play, allowing smartphone users to cast their votes and and freely express
February 23, 2016 Tran Minh Nhat, a former prisoner of conscience, was stoned on the head and threatened by local authorities that they would burn
