January 23, 2017 On 21 January 2017 human rights defender Ms Tran Thi Nga was arrested in Ha Nam province on charges of anti-state propaganda.
January 25, 2017 Reporters Without Borders condemns the “preventive” arrests of three bloggers and citizen journalists in the past few days in the run-up to
January 13, 2017 Nguyen Van Hoa, a Vietnamese Catholic youth, was arbitrarily arrested by Ha Tinh security police on January 11, 2017. Hoa has reported
January 20, 2017 Nguyen Van Oai, a former prisoner of conscience, was ambushed and kidnapped by a group of men, later identified as the local
January 13, 2017 Bangkok, January 13, 2017 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release from prison of Vietnamese journalist Dang Xuan Dieu and
January 13, 2017 By Quyên Ngô (Loa) – Web Exclusive Vietnamese authorities released and promptly exiled a blogger and democracy activist held for six years
December 28, 2016 By Đôn Lê (Loa) – Web Exclusive A court in Nha Trang has upheld the sentence of a Vietnamese democracy activist, who
December 14, 2016 Security police in Saigon found nothing amusing about a local comedian’s online monologues and ordered the funnyman to come in for questioning.
November 25, 2016 Nguyen Van Dai – a prominent human rights lawyer and blogger in Viet Nam is being detained incommunicado for exercising his right
November 30, 2016 By Don Lê A prominent Vietnamese land rights activist, 54-year-old Cấn Thị Thêu, has had her sentence upheld in her appeal trial
November 25, 2016 Australian Federal Member of Parliament Chris Hayes discussed the arrest of blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai
In a decision announced on September 22, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) in Geneva ruled favourably to a petition regarding the
