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US House Members urge Secretary Clinton to secure Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan’s release

(Members of Congress) In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Dan Lungren and five other House members urged the State Department “to secure the immediate release of Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan so he can be reunited with his wife and two sons.” (4/05/2012)


Detained in Vietnam: Paulus Le Son

(Trinh Nguyen) - “Live until you die, don’t die while you’re still living.” These words mark the blog of Paulus Le Son, 26 years old and arbitrarily detained in Vietnam. An active community organizer, a citizen journalist for Vietnam Redemptorist News and other outlets, Paulus was arrested on the street in front of (...) (25/04/2012)


Human rights defender of the month – Nguyen Van Hai aka Dieu Cay

(Civil Rights Defenders) - Blogger Nguyen Van Hai (pen name Dieu Cay) has drawn the ire of the Vietnamese government with his human rights promotion and criticism of the authorities. They have kept him behind bars since 2008, and during the past 18 months, his family and lawyers have had no access to him. In April, he is (...) (15/04/2012)


Draft decree would end online anonymity, force foreign Internet firms to censor

(Reporters Without Borders) - Reporters Without Borders calls on the Vietnamese authorities to abandon plans for a decree that would increase online censorship to an utterly unacceptable level and exacerbate the already very disturbing situation for freedom of expression in (...) (13/04/2012)


Trial ‘Imminent’ for 11 Detained Activists

(Radio Free Asia) - Eleven Vietnamese activists who have been languishing in jail without trial since as far back as August last year, may be hauled to court soon to face subversion charges. (12/04/2012)


Vietnam Drafts New Online Censorship Rules

(Radio Free Asia) - Google, Facebook, and other Internet companies may be required to censor their content in Vietnam. If adopted, the draft decree, released Friday by the Ministry of Information and Communications, would require foreign businesses to cooperate with Vietnamese authorities in removing information (...) (11/04/2012)


Pastor Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Leading House Church in Vietnam

(Christian Post) - A Protestant pastor was sentenced to 11 years in prison in Vietnam Monday for leading a house church, unregistered as an official church with state officials, state media reported. The incident reportedly left Christians fearful that similar acts of persecution could become more common in the (...) (2/04/2012)


“Blogging While Vietnamese”

(VOA) - As in neighboring China, Vietnam is seeking to have it both ways: expanding access to the web and wiring the nation for the future while limiting what its citizens can do and say online. It’s a tricky balance, and one technology is constantly (...) (31/03/2012)


Interview with Brett Solomon, Executive Director of Access

(Trinity Hong-Thuan) - On March 12th, a coalition of 9 international human rights organizations sent out an open letter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and called on the Vietnamese government to immediately release five Catholic bloggers: Dang Xuan Dieu, Ho Duc Hoa, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nong Hung Anh and (...) (23/03/2012)


Press freedom groups urge Vietnam to release bloggers

(DPA) - In a letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the press freedom groups expressed "deep concern over the unfounded arrest and detention" of Dang Xuan Dieu, Ho Duc Hoa, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nong Hung Anh and Paulus Le Son. In a letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, the press freedom groups (...) (13/03/2012)