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Viet Nam land grabbing case needs to be urgently addressed – UN human rights experts
GENEVA (26 March 2014) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts on Wednesday called on the Vietnamese Government to intervene urgently in a case of forced eviction of the last remaining residents of Con Dau, a small village located on the outskirts of Da Nang city in central Viet Nam. “This appears…
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Vietnam Activists Want Association to Address Public Complaints
RFA 2014-01-03 A group of activists in Vietnam are moving to launch a nationwide association to help address public complaints against government land grabs, police brutality, and corruption among officials in the one-party Communist state. The activists expressed their intention to form the Association for Victims of Injustice in an open letter to Interior Minister…
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Vietnam firms (HAGL and Vietnam Rubber Group) involved in ‘illegal land grabs’
By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent, BBC News An environmental group has accused two Vietnamese rubber firms of involvement in massive land grabs in Cambodia and Laos. In its report, Global Witness said HAGL and Vietnam Rubber Group had been allocated over 280,000 hectares for rubber plantations in the countries. Residents had been evicted…
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On trial for resisting eviction that Vietnam admits was illegal, fishing family defiant
By Associated Press, Published: April 1 | Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 8:12 AM VINH QUANG, Vietnam — The broken bricks and roof tiles of Doan Van Vuon’s house, bulldozed by Vietnamese authorities trying to evict him, lie next to his relatives’ new home, a shack of bamboo and corrugated iron that testifies to their perseverance.…
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Vietnam mourners clash with riot police: reports
AFP March 18, 2013 HANOI – Angry mourners clashed with riot police at a funeral procession in northern Vietnam at the weekend, state media said Monday, in a rare mass protest at alleged impunity for the country’s communist elite. Sunday’s unrest was triggered by the death of Nguyen Tuan Anh, whose family claims he was…
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Land Expropriation in Vietnam
Compiled by NCVA & BPSOS Vietnam Human Rights Bulletin, Vol I, No 2 The Van Giang “police action” As noted above (“Vietnamreporters beaten up by riot police”), on April 24 an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 police armed with bludgeons, electric rods, and tear gas descended on Van Giang district in Hung Yen province to expropriate…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Pregnant woman brutalized by the police in the April 24, 2012 Van-Giang land expropriation incident
Mrs. Ngo Thi Anh, the pregnant woman, attempted to stop the police from beating the two reporters. The police turned around and beat her brutally, kicking her in the stomach. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BoJ-wvKxNs&feature=relate]
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