RSF: Vietnamese blogger gets 20-year jail sentence (Blogger Lê Đình Lượng lãnh 20 năm tù)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the record 20-year prison sentence … and calls on the European Parliament to block any trade agreement with Vietnam.
Vietnam jails Catholic social activist for 9 years
Ha Tinh Vietnam April 13, 2018 A court in central Vietnam has jailed a Catholic activist after convicting her of subverting the communist state. The People’s Court in Ha Tinh Province sentenced Teresa Tran Thi Xuan to nine years in prison on April 12 for “attempting to overthrow the people’s government,” the state-run Ha Tinh…
Vietnam jails activist for 14 years for livestreaming pollution march
AP (2/06/2018): A court in central Vietnam has sentenced an activist to 14 years in jail for livestreaming fishermen marching to file a lawsuit against a Taiwan-owned steel plant’s . Hoang Duc Binh, 34, was convicted of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the state, organisation and people, and opposing officers on duty,…
Crushing Formosa movement
The two prongs of Vietnam’s response to the Formosa chemical spill were shown in stark relief on Monday: harsh repression of environmental campaigners – and, at the same time, an attempt to reassure the public that lessons have been learned. A 22-year-old blogger, Nguyen Van Hoa, was sentenced to seven years in prison for producing…
RSF: Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hoa gets seven years in prison
The main reason for Hoa’s arrest in early 2017 was his coverage of the reactions to a toxic spill from a Taiwanese steel plant in Ha Tinh province that poisoned millions of fish and reduced thousands of fishermen to penury. Hoa covered the ensuing protests, sometimes using a camera mounted on a drone.
Environmental campaigner arrested on subversion charge
Police in the north-central province of Ha Tinh have arrested a female activist as the authorities continue their campaign to silence opposition voices.
Vietnamese blogger Mother Mushroom jailed for 10 years
Blogger Mushroom”, a passionate activist for environment, social injustices, and human rights issues has been sentenced 10 years in prison. A State Department spokeswoman praised Quynh for “exposing corruption, raising awareness about environmental protection and reporting on human rights violations in Vietnam.”
Vietnam Uses Thugs as Surrogates to Keep Citizens in Line, Report Says
All over Vietnam, young toughs are being employed as a sort of police auxiliary who administer beatings to citizens that the national police aren’t yet ready to arrest
Police-Hired ‘Thugs’ Beat Vietnamese Anti-Formosa Catholics
“Thugs” hired by authorities in Vietnam’s central Nghe An province severely beat a group of Catholic parishioners, including women and children, that had protested the government’s handling of a toxic waste spill
TƯỜNG TRÌNH v/v công an bắt người trái phép ngày 15/5/2017
Tôi là linh mục JB. Nguyễn Đình Thục, Quản xứ Song Ngọc, thuộc xã Quỳnh Ngọc, huyện Quỳnh Lưu, tỉnh Nghệ An. Sáng hôm qua ngày 15 tháng 5 năm 2017, tôi cùng một số anh chị em đi công việc. Lúc 9h30 sáng, khi đến đoạn đường thuộc thôn 4 xã Diễn An, Huyện…
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