Tag: Nguyen Van Hoa

Viet Nam: UN rights experts urge release of activists jailed for protesting toxic spill

GENEVA (23 February 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called for the release of individuals jailed for writing about…

Vietnam should respect the right of freedom of expression, says DROI Chair

I have learnt with dismay of the 7 year sentence against Mr. Nguyen Van Hoa for expressing his views on…

2017 Crackdown in Vietnam

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

Human Rights and Digital Security Groups Call for Release of Video Journalist Nguyen Van Hoa

May 3, 2017 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Vietnamese authorities must immediately release Nguyen Van Hoa, a…

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…

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…