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Category: Freedoms

  • Pastor’s Sentence Upheld

    Radio Free Asia July 31, 2012 A Vietnamese court rejects a priest’s appeal as three bloggers await trial on similar charges An appeals court in Vietnam upheld an 11-year jail sentence imposed on a pastor of a banned church for “undermining unity” in the one-party state ahead of a trial next week of a group…

  • Stanford Law School’s Allen Weiner files petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of seventeen Vietnamese social and political activists

    Stanford Law School July 25, 2012 STANFORD, Calif., July 25, 2012—Allen Weiner, director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law at Stanford Law School, today filed a petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) in Geneva contesting the illegal arrest and on-going detention of seventeen Vietnamese social and political…

  • Harsher crackdown on dissidents prompts act of despair

    Reporter 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 City…

  • Vietnam Blogger’s Mom Self-Immolates Before Trial

    HANOI, Vietnam July 31, 2012 (AP) The mother of a prominent Vietnamese blogger has died after setting herself on fire ahead of her daughter’s trial next week, police said Tuesday. An officer in the southern province of Bac Lieu said 64-year-old Dang Thi Kim Lieng died Monday afternoon on the way to the hospital in…

  • The mother of a popular Vietnamese blogger and government critic died Monday in a rare self-immolation protest

    Reported by RFA’s Vietnamese service. Translated by An Nguyen. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. The mother of a popular Vietnamese blogger and government critic died Monday in a rare self-immolation protest, concerned over the plight of her daughter who is to stand trial for criticizing the state, according to a family member. Dang Thi…

  • 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…

  • Vietnam’s Two-Front War on Religion

    By Michael Benge July 22, 2012   The Vietnamese regime’s religion is communism, and the Party views all other organized religions as a direct threat to national security and its authoritarian control of the Vietnamese people.  Religious tolerance exists only in theory; Article 70 of Vietnam’s Constitution of 1992 states that citizens “shall enjoy freedom…

  • 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…