November 6, 2012 By Stephen Magagnini smagagnini@sacbee.com Officials from the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City – formerly known as Saigon – have
By Stephen Magagnini smagagnini@sacbee.com November 3, 2012 After more than six months in a Vietnamese prison, pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan of Elk Grove is
A special one-day seminar for activists presented by Viet Tan When: August 18, 2012 | 9am-5pm Where: Washington, DC (location TBD) Viet Tan’s “Digital Activism
July 20, 2012 Ms Tran Thi Thuy, a land rights activist and member of Viet Tan, is being subjected to ill-treatment in detention. Stomach injuries
July 16, 2012 A rights group says a Vietnamese land activist with a serious health condition has been singled out for abuse in jail. A
July 16, 2012 The U.S. Secretary of State connects human rights and prosperity. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have been disappointed in her
July 11, 2012 Do Hoang Diem, chairman of Viet Tan, speaks to Wall Street Journal’s Mary Kissel on Hillary Clinton’s visit to Vietnam and a
July 10, 2012 A US politician has demanded the removal of his country’s envoy to Vietnam ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Hillary
July 10, 2012 Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., asked President Obama to fire his ambassador to Vietnam for failing to defend an American citizen under detention
May 16, 2012 WASHINGTON – The wife of a US citizen held in Vietnam urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday to push for his
May 15, 2012 The State Department’s top human rights official was forced to go off script and meet with the wife of an American citizen
May 15, 2012 US official says relations with Vietnam hinge on improving its rights record. The U.S. State Department expressed “great concern” Tuesday over the
