February 6, 2013 The democracy activist had served three years of his five-year sentence for subversion. Vietnam on Wednesday freed a U.S.-trained human rights lawyer
02/02/2013 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Socialist Republic of Vietnam 2 Hoang Van Thu Hanoi, Vietnam. Dear Prime Minister, I am writing this letter to
January 26, 2013 A scandal-ridden party lashes out at dissent and tries to tackle corruption EARLIER this month Vietnam’s courts handed out long jail sentences
January 20, 2013 Note from Viet Tan: After experiencing much police harassment and sensing that his arrest was imminent, human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan
January 17, 2013 A land activist and a religious activist suffer poor conditions in a Vietnamese jail. Two women prisoners of conscience at the K5
January 15, 2013 The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (‘Stichting Advocaten voor Advocaten’) and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) issues a joint appeal to Vietnam’s
January 14, 2013 The Vietnamese government is using its own official bloggers to post comments on the Internet favorable to the ruling Communist Party and
January 11, 2013 Earlier today the EU Ambassador to Vietnam, Franz Jessen, expressed his concerns over the sentencing of 14 bloggers and journalists (activists) in
January 11, 2013 The Honorable David Shear U.S. Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC
January 11, 2013 The United Nations human rights office has expressed serious concern over the convictions and sentencing of 14 political activists in Vietnam for
Jannuary 9, 2013 We are deeply troubled by reports that the People’s Court of Nghe An Province convicted 14 Catholic Redemptorist bloggers on charges related
January 9, 2013 ARTICLE 19 condemns the jailing of thirteen pro-democracy activists in Vietnam and calls on the authorities to release them immediately. The men
