Now in her twenties, Huynh Thuc Vy knows all about oppression. Her father Huynh Ngoc Tuan is a dissident who spent 10 years in prison for his writing. Vy herself, for blogging about democracy, human rights and police brutality, has…
HANOI, Vietnam – A new comprehensive and essential web portal on the Vietnamese human rights situation, www.vietnamrightnow.com, launched on March 24, providing much needed information in English and in real-time on one of the world’s worst violator of human rights….
Before his arrest in 2009 Le Cong Dinh was primarily a prominent business lawyer with a diverse portfolio of domestic and international clients. He also sat on the defense many high-profile human rights cases in Vietnam, including the trial…
When attorneys Nguyen Van Dai (Nguyễn Văn Đài, right) and Le Thi Cong Nhan (Lê Thị Công Nhân, 2d row left) were tried and sentenced in 2007 under Article 88 for allegedly conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic, it signaled…
by Hao-Nhien Vu A nine-term U.S. Member of Congress and longtime co-chair of the Congressional Vietnam Caucus, Loretta Sanchez has been an outspoken voice for democracy in Vietnam and has had several run-ins with the Vietnamese government, to the point…
by Hao-Nhien Vu Chris Hayes MP is the Chief Opposition Whip in the Federal Parliament of Australia and an outspoken advocate for human rights in Vietnam. He has frequently stated that human rights in Vietnam is in the national interest…
by Hao-Nhien Vu U.S. Congressman Alan Lowenthal, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, represents most of Little Saigon in California, with the highest concentration of Vietnamese abroad. Still in his first term in Congress, Lowenthal has already…
(VNRN) – A Vietnamese political prisoner on his last days battling cancer, Dinh Dang Dinh (Đinh Đăng Định), was granted amnesty on March 21, in a move rarely seen in this communist country. The amnesty came one month after his…
(RFA) – A Vietnamese court on March 19 sentenced a dissident blogger to 15 months in jail in the second such conviction to be handed down this month as authorities clamp down on online criticism of government leaders and policies,…
(VNRN) – Faced with hundreds of ethnic Hmong people marching on the courthouse in northern Tuyen Quang province demanding the release of four people prosecuted for their religious belief, the trial was suddenly postponed on March 18 by claiming that…