Today, October 21, 2014, the government of Vietnam released blogger Dieu Cay Nguyen Van Hai early from prison, escorted him to Noi Bai International Airport and exiled him to a third country (believed to be the United States of America)…
By Shawn W. Crispin In the second of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ multi-part “Undercover in Vietnam” series on press freedom in Vietnam, CPJ Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin reveals the persecution faced by Redemptorist News journalists, who have been…
(HRW) – Police throughout Vietnam abuse people in their custody, in some cases leading to death, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Vietnamese government should take immediate action to end suspicious deaths in custody and torture of…
(VNRN) – Prisoners of conscience in Vietnam have been transferred away from their families, a pattern that has come to the fore with the most recent move of Le Quoc Quan (Lê Quốc Quân) from Hanoi to Quang Nam province 760km…
(VNRN) – Near the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Vietnamese government stepped up its censorship and banned all mentions of the event, even blocking the entire CNN broadcast of a retrospective segment on the event. It has…
The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on May 5, 2014 has once again applied Article 258 of the Vietnamese Penal Code to suppress opposite opinions through the arrest of Anh Ba Sam online news editor, blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh. Also…
by Hao-Nhien Vu (VNRN) – Following a reported border clash with Uighur immigrants where five of the migrants were killed together with two Vietnamese guards, questions are being raised over the government’s conduct in quickly returning the people, including women,…
(VNRN) – A third “Human Rights Coffee” roundtable, focusing on police torture, is to take place today in coastal Nha Trang but less than an hour before starting time, three of the organizers were reportedly picked up by police and…
(VNRN) – The son of a prisoner of conscience and a reporter are two people recently barred from leaving Vietnam and their passports were confiscated. The reporter is Anna Huyen Trang (Huyền Trang), who works for Vietnamese Redemptorists’ News (VRNs),…
(VNRN) – Representatives of Vietnam’s independent civil society testified before the Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Senate on April 7. The panel heard testimony from Hoi Trinh, the executive director of VOICE (Vietnamese Overseas Initiative for Conscience Empowerment), journalist…