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After the crackdown: attacks and intimidation

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT ON VIETNAM’s PERSECUTION OF CATHOLICS October 9, 2008 Viet Nam: Growing fear, growing discrimination The Vietnamese government must end its intimidation

For Immediate Release Peaceful Protesters Beaten, Arrested, and Harassed (New York, October 4, 2008) – The Vietnamese government should immediately release Roman Catholics arrested for

For Immediate Release: October 2, 2008 Contact: Natalie Ravitz or David Frey (202) 224-8120 SENATOR BOXER CALLS ON PRESIDENT TO CONDEMN VIETNAM’S TREATMENT OF CATHOLICS

Speech for religious freedom and democracy in Vietnam by MP- Luke Simpkins on 15/08/2008

September 26, 2008 Promise of negotiated settlement fades; Catholic leaders threatened with legal action. HANOI, September 26 (Compass Direct News) – Authorities in Hanoi have

September 29, 2008 With a new campaign in the media, the authorities are trying to eliminate popular support for the Catholics. A gang of thugs

Vietnam: U.S. Government Should Re-Designate Vietnam Among Worst Violators of Religious Freedom, Press for Unconditional Release of Prisoners FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 24, 2008 Contact:

Sanchez Outraged with Violence at Thai Ha Prayer Vigil and Continued Hostility Against Peaceful Protesters Sanchez issues letter to President Triet on Vietnam’s recent human

23 September, 2008 (WiPC/IFEX) – The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN is alarmed about an apparent crackdown on dissidents in Vietnam, in

September 22, 2008 Hanoi – As Catholic protests continued Monday over the government’s clearance of a plot of land claimed by Hanoi’s Archdiocese, non-Catholics’ sympathy

September 19, 2008 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — An Associated Press reporter in Vietnam was punched, choked and hit over the head with a camera by