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US slams ’disturbing trend’ of Vietnam activist jail terms

(AFP) May 17, 2013 HANOI - The US on Friday called for the release of two Vietnamese activists jailed for distributing anti-government leaflets, saying their case highlights a "disturbing trend" of authorities muzzling dissent. University student Nguyen Phuong Uyen, 21, was jailed for six years, while computer technician Dinh Nguyen Kha, 25, was imprisoned for eight years by a court in southern (...) (18/05/2013)


Vietnam: Upcoming appeal trial of eight human rights defenders

(Front Line Defenders) - May 16, 2013 On 23 May 2013, the appeal trial of Messrs Ho Duc Hoa, Thai Van Dung, Paulus Le Son, Nguyen Xuan Anh, Tran Minh Nhat, Nguyen Dinh Cuong, Ho Van Oanh and Nguyen Van Duyet is due to take place. The eight human rights defenders were arrested between August and December 2011, and were (...) (16/05/2013)


Vietnam: Drop Charges for Leafleting

(Human Rights Watch) - May 15, 2013 (New York) – Vietnam should drop charges and free two activists arrested in October 2012 for “conducting propaganda against the state. Nguyen Phuong Uyen and Dinh Nguyen Kha are scheduled to be tried in the People’s Court of Long An province on Thursday, May 16, (...) (15/05/2013)


Netizen prize winner prevented from taking international flight

(Reporters Without Borders) - May 13, 2013 Reporters Without Borders condemns the Vietnamese public security ministry’s decision to prevent the well-known blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh from travelling abroad. Winner of the 2013 Netizen Prize, which Reporters Without Borders awards annually with support from Google, Chenh and (...) (14/05/2013)


Vietnam: Stop Blocking ‘Human Rights Picnics’

(Human Rights Watch) - May 10, 2013 The Vietnamese authorities should stop impeding and abusing people trying to hold “human rights picnics” in public spaces. Despite government abuse and bullying, some people did succeed in holding informal gatherings and discussed the day’s events (...) (13/05/2013)


Police use violence against bloggers at human rights picnics

(Reporters Without Borders) - Bloggers and netizens who took part in “picnics to discuss human rights” in public places in several Vietnamese cities on 5 May were violently attacked by police and many were briefly detained. (12/05/2013)


Stanford Law School’s Allen Weiner Files Comments on Viet Nam’s Response to United Nations Petition on Behalf of Seventeen Detained Vietnamese Social and Political Activists

(Stanford Law School) - On behalf of seventeen Vietnamese social and political activists, Allen Weiner has filed comments in response to the Vietnamese government’s reply to a petition filed last year with the United Nations that challenged the legality of the arrest and detention of the (...) (9/05/2013)


In Hard Times, Open Dissent and Repression Rise in Vietnam

(New York Times) - Vietnam — His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer. A former adviser to two prime ministers, Mr. Tuong, like so many people in Vietnam (...) (24/04/2013)


Vietnam, US Far Apart on Human Rights

(Associated Press) - Vietnamese authorities seeking to stop a well-known democracy activist from meeting an American diplomat last weekend deployed an unusual weapon — a group of elderly ladies. The women blocked the road leading to the dissident’s house, preventing a U.S. Embassy vehicle from reaching the house. The (...) (20/04/2013)


Vietnam: Update – Upcoming appeal trial of eight detained human rights defenders

(Front Line Defenders) - On 24 April 2013 at 7.30am, the appeal trial of Messrs Ho Duc Hoa, Thai Van Dung, Paulus Le Son, Nguyen Xuan Anh, Tran Minh Nhat, Nguyen Dinh Cuong, Ho Van Oanh and Nguyen Van Duyet will start in Vinh city, in the province of Nghe An on the north central Vietnamese coast. The human rights (...) (17/04/2013)