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Vietnam: Four rebellious Catholic students imprisoned
05/24/2012 Four Catholic students who had been handing out flyers to promote religious freedom and protection of life have been put behind bars. NGOs are protesting vatican insider staff rome Sentenced to prison for “propaganda against the State”: this is the fate of 4 Catholic students, tried by a court in Hanoi today for a…
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US Assistant Secretary Posner on Human Rights in Vietnam
“…the situation in Vietnam for human rights remains discouraging. Government officials repeatedly tell me they seek stability; their actions, however, serve to undermine that goal. Only through affording its citizenry the opportunity to exercise the basic human rights guaranteed in Vietnam’s own constitution and in international norms, can a government be secure. Many in Vietnam…
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Catholic Priest Nguyễn Văn Lý, a Prisoner of Conscience
Sentenced to a total of 53 years for demanding social justice and religious freedom Rev. Nguyễn Văn Lý was prohibited from speaking at his own trial held on March 30th, 2007. Reverend Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý was born in 1947 and ordained in 1974 by the martyred bishop Philip Nguyễn Kim Điền. The government of…
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Viet Khang, Songwriter with a Conscience
Jailed for expressing his patriotic feelings Viet Khang, a songwriter currently detained by the public security police without charges, has quickly become the symbol and voice of conscience of the post-war generation of Vietnamese. His arrest has prompted a movement among Vietnamese artists and intellectuals in Vietnam and overseas calling for his immediate and unconditional…
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