A series of articles in many languages, from many news agencies around the world, simultaneously reported and analyzed the detention of dissident journalist Pham Doan Trang, who was charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda.” With this allegation, Ms. Pham Doan Trang…
Today, October 7, 2020, is the second and last session of the US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. But at 11.30 pm on October 6, police arrested journalist Pham Doan Trang – a famous human rights activist in Vietnam. Ms. Trang was…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, October 2, 2020 For immediate release According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of September 30, 2020, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or other forms of detention.…
A copy of the “Dong Tam Report” has just been published for the 3rd edition in late September. It is said to be the most complete version in Vietnamese-English bilingual, after the previous two editions were released on January 16…
On September 23, Ms. Nguyen Thi Chau, the wife of engineer Nguyen Ngoc Anh, a prisoner of conscience currently serving his imprisonment at Xuan Loc Prison camp, Dong Nai province posted on her personal Facebook account her husband’s information and…
Vietnam is now one of Israel’s largest markets for weapons and surveillance technology. But those defense exports are used by Hanoi’s repressive communist regime to silence its own population Vietnam’s dictatorship has lasted for decades. Its longevity and repression mean…
The UN has just released a 2020 report on government intimidation and retaliation cases in Vietnam, under which there are at least 16 cases involving government detention, confiscation of identity documents, and interrogation or follow up from 2019 to present.…
The UN has just published a letter that its two Special Rapporteurs sent to the Government of Vietnam on April 30, 2020, regarding acts of intimidation, harassment, and suppression of many people when they intended to or have been attended…
