Tag: bloggers

French-Vietnamese blogger threatened with expulsion

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the Vietnamese government’s declared intention to expel Pham Minh Hoang, an outspoken…

Professor and blogger Pham Minh Hoang pens open letter about possible deportation from Vietnam

Pham Minh Hoang, a former prisoner of conscience, professor of mathematics, and blogger with dual French-Vietnamese citizenship, published a call…

Viet Nam: Three human rights defenders held incommunicado

February 15, 2017 Within 10 days of each other, three unassociated Vietnamese human rights defenders were arrested in January and…

Nguyen Van Oai Arrested

January 23, 2017 On 21 January 2017 human rights defender Ms Tran Thi Nga was arrested in Ha Nam province…

RSF decries arrests of three activist bloggers in Vietnam

January 25, 2017 Reporters Without Borders condemns the “preventive” arrests of three bloggers and citizen journalists in the past few…

Formosa protest reporter kidnapped by Vietnamese authorities

January 13, 2017 Nguyen Van Hoa, a Vietnamese Catholic youth, was arbitrarily arrested by Ha Tinh security police on January…

Statement Opposing the Police’s Unlawful Arrest of activist Nguyen Van Oai

January 20, 2017 Nguyen Van Oai, a former prisoner of conscience, was ambushed and kidnapped by a group of men,…

Viet Tan Alert : Former Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience Re-Arrested

January 20, 2017 Vietnamese human rights defender, blogger and former political prisoner Nguyen Van Oai has been re-arrested. His wife…

Human rights lawyer detained for blogging and advocacy must be released

November 25, 2016 Nguyen Van Dai – a prominent human rights lawyer and blogger in Viet Nam is being detained…

Statement on International Human Rights Day 2016

December 9, 2016 December 10, 2016 marks the 68th anniversary of when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.…

Five News Stories to Know for October

October 31, 2016 By Quyên Ngô After months of coping with the fallout from the fish crisis, October brought no…

In Vietnam, telling the truth is criminal ‘propaganda’

October 21, 2016 A popular blogger is arrested for speaking out about environmental and police abuse. THIS MAY, in a…