Vietnam Today

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

September 18, 2008 Police are using checkpoints, interrogation, and threats to quash protests in Vietnam. HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnamese plainclothes police arrest student demonstrator, ending a

September 10, 2008 “You know, there are four kinds of people in Vietnam, those who know nothing and say nothing, those who do know and

September 6, 2008 Vietnamese Catholics get high-level support for protests calling on the government to return expropriated Church land. BANGKOK (RFA)- A Top Catholic Church