Democratic Voice of Vietnam

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Category: Freedom of Expression & Internet

  • Harsher crackdown on dissidents prompts act of despair

    Reporters Without Borders, July 30, 2012 Dang Thi Kim Lieng, the mother of the jailed blogger Ta Phong Tan, died after setting fire to herself today outside the headquarters of the People’s Committee in Bac Lieu, Tan’s home province, in an act of despair about her dissident daughter’s trial next week in Ho Chi Minh…

  • Imprisoned blogger’s mother died after setting herself on fire

    BBC, July 30, 2012 23:59:04 The mother of a prominent Vietnamese blogger has died after setting herself on fire in protest against her daughter’s detention. Her daughter, Ta Phong Tan, is due in court in Ho Chi Minh city next week to face charges of anti-government propaganda. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-30/imprisoned-bloggers-mother-sets-herself-on-fire/4165138

  • Morther of political prisoner reportedly self-immodated

    According to Vietnam Redemptorist News (VRN), a woman in Bac Lieu Province self-immolated to protest the government’s imprisonment of her daughter, a well-known blogger. Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng reportedly burnt herself in front of the provincial People’s Committee and was taken to the hospital. Her daughter, Ms. Ta Phong Tan (45), was arrested last September and…

  • Arrests, surveillance and intimidation used to prevent destabilization

      Reporters Without Borders, July 18, 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns a new crackdown on Vietnam’s bloggers and human rights activists. “The authorities are stopping at nothing to silence dissidents, following them, assaulting them, subjecting them to heavy-handed interrogation and holding them illegally,” Reporters Without Borders said. “They are acting like thugs with peaceful bloggers…

  • Vietnam’s Law Enforcement Agencies and Judicial System Violated Laws in the Case of the Free Journalists Club

    Hanoi, July 14, 2012 Nguyen Van Dai, Esq. International human rights organizations and the governments of several countries are concerned about Vietnam’s harassment and arrest of 3 bloggers associated with the Free Journalists Club, Nguyen Van Hai, Phan Thanh Hai and Ta Phong Tan. Blogger Phan Thanh Hai was arrested the night of October 18…

  • Human Rights Watch – Vietnam: Clinton Should Spotlight Internet Freedom

    For Immediate Release Vietnam: Clinton Should Spotlight Internet Freedom Press Vietnam to Tear Down Web Firewall; Release Imprisoned Bloggers (New York, July 10, 2012) – United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should publicly press Vietnam to respect freedom of expression and Internet freedom, and release prominent Internet bloggers when she visits Hanoi on July…

  • Echoing President Obama, three US Senators call for Vietnamese blogger’s release

    In a letter  to Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung dated June 15, 2012, three US senators asekd for the immediate release of blogger Nguyen Van Hai, aka Dieu Cay. “We are deeply concerned with the circumstances surrounding his arrest and re-arrest and by reports that family has been prevented from visiting him,” wrote Senators…

  • Vietnam reporters beaten up by riot police — Vietnam Human Rights Bulletin Vol I, No 2

    YouTube videos of the military-like land expropriation operation carried out by approximately 2,000 policemen and associated militia-like groups in Van Giang District, Hung Yen Province, showed two men being roughed up by the police and their associates.  It turned out that they were two radio reporters from the government’s own Voice of Vietnam (VOV) who…

  • Human rights report for the first 3 months of 2012 – prepared by Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai

    Hanoi, 14 April 2012 In the first 3 months of 2012, the human rights situation in Vietnam continued to worsen rapidly. After the crackdowns and arrests of 2011, the government of Vietnam, in 2012, continues to persecute, harass, detain and prosecute many religious, democracy and human rights activists. To maintain its absolute power, the Vietnamese…

  • Vietnam: Overturn Activist Bloggers Sentence

    Human Rights Defender Punished for Expressing Her Views (New York, May 30, 2012) – Vietnamese authorities should void the conviction of blogger Ho Thi Bich Khuong, 44, and immediately free her, Human Rights Watch said today. The People’s Court of Nghe An is scheduled on May 30, 2012, to hear her appeal against her five-year…