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Vietnam: Expanding Campaign to Silence Dissent

(Human Rights Watch) February 4, 2010 (New York) - The Vietnamese government should immediately drop all charges and free the prominent writer and democracy activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, Human Rights Watch said today. She is to be put on trial February 5, 2010, on assault charges after thugs attacked and beat her in front of her home, as undercover police looked on. Tran Khai Thanh Thuy and Pham Thanh Nghien, (...) (6/02/2010)


Vietnam convicts pro-democracy novelist of assault

(DPA) - February 5, 2010 Hanoi - A Hanoi court convicted a pro-democracy writer and her husband of assault Friday in a case that has drawn condemnation from foreign governments and human rights organizations. Writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, 49, was sentenced to 42 months in prison after a one-day trial. (...) (5/02/2010)


Australian MP Luke Simpkins Addresses Human Rights in Vietnam

(Luke Simpkins) - On 29 January 2010, Vietnamese freelance journalist Pham Thanh Nghien was jailed for three years following a trial in Haiphong, convicted of spreading anti-state propaganda. I take this opportunity to express my disappointment in the direction that the Communist Party is taking in Vietnam. (...) (5/02/2010)


Trial documents against Tran Khai Thanh Thuy

(Viet Tan) - Novelist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was arrested on October 8, 2009 after attending the trials of fellow democracy activists. The Vietnamese government staged an attack against her and her husband and then charged the couple with assault. Authorities tried to support the assault charges by (...) (5/02/2010)


Convictions of activists could hurt US-Vietnam relations

(DPA) - February 3, 2010 Hanoi - The recent sentencing of 15 Vietnamese democracy activists to prison could damage the country’s image and its diplomat relations, the US ambassador to Vietnam said Wednesday. Michael Michalak painted a generally bright picture of bilateral relations, which have grown (...) (4/02/2010)


Letter of a daughter to her parents

(Do Thuy Tien) - February 1, 2010 My dearest parents, Once again, I am writing to you to express all my love and most of all, to share my deepest concern on your upcoming court trial. The accusations are ridiculous and I am so afraid that the verdict has already been predetermined. Like many previous trials, (...) (2/02/2010)


Vietnamese writer jailed for spreading ‘propaganda’

(CPJ) - February 1, 2010 New York, The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a jail sentence given to a Vietnamese journalist on charges that she spread anti-state propaganda and called today for her immediate release. Pham Thanh Nghien, a freelance writer, was arrested during a government (...) (1/02/2010)


3 US Congressmen to Vietnamese PM: release Tran Khai Thanh Thuy

(Edward Royce, Christopher Smith, Anh Cao) - We are writing to express our utmost concern for the wellbeing of writer and democracy activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, detained since 8 October 2009. It has come to our attention that Ms. Thuy, suffering from tuberculosis and diabetes, was unfairly arrested for her peaceful expression and is (...) (30/01/2010)


Vietnam court sentences democracy activist to 4 years as crackdown on dissent continues

(AP) - January 29, 2010 HANOI, Vietnam — An author and democracy activist who criticized Vietnam’s communist government was sentenced Friday to four years in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the state, her lawyer said. Pham Thanh Nghien, 32, was also given three years’ probation after (...) (30/01/2010)


Australian MP: Vietnam must respect human rights and religious freedom

(Luke Simpkins) - Dear Prime Minister, I have been approached by my Australian-Vietnamese constituents regarding your Government recent sentences imposed on four democracy activists, namely Le Cong Dinh, Nguyen Tien Trung, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc and Le Thang Long. They further raise concern regarding the upcoming (...) (30/01/2010)