Tag: crackdown

Vietnam Jails Prominent Blogger For Five Years

September 19, 2017 A court in northern-central Vietnam’s Nghe An province on Monday sentenced prominent blogger and former political prisoner…

Hanoi’s 2017 Crackdown on Freedom of Expression

August 30, 2017 Vietnamese authorities have been continuing their crackdown on freedom of expression, detaining advocates and drafting cybersecurity laws…

Trial Set for Vietnamese Human Rights Defender Nguyen Van Oai

August 15, 2017 Vietnamese authorities have set the trial date for blogger and human rights defender Nguyen Van Oai. Local…

2017 Crackdown in Vietnam

August 13, 2017 A snapshot of the ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression in Vietnam in 2017. 25 bloggers, human…

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…

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,…

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…

Obama urged to seek freedom for activists on Vietnam visit

April 27, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — An international coalition of human rights groups on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to…