Democratic Voice of Vietnam

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Category: Freedoms

  • 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…

  • Anti-human trafficking coalition launches campaign to boycott “blood cashews” from Vietnam

    Boycott “blood cashews” from Vietnam Press Release Contact: bpsos@bpsos.org June 13, 2012 Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia (CAMSA) calls on consumers around the globe to boycott cashews exported by Vietnam because they are a product of modern-day slavery. Human Rights Watch, in its publication titled “The Rehab Archipelago,” reports that forced labor has…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Forced labor used in Vietnam’s drug detention centers

    According to Human Rights Watch’s report titled The Rehab Archipelago, “Vietnam’s system of forced labor centers for people who use drugs has expanded over the last decade. In 2000, there were 56 drug detention centers across Vietnam; by early 2011 that number had risen to 123 centers. Between 2000 and 2010, over 309,000 people across…

  • Police brutality against people of faith – a slideshow

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  • Police beat to death a citizen

    Mr. Ngo Thanh Kieu, age 31, a resident of Hoa Dong Village, Tan Hoa District, Phu Yen Province, was the latest victim of rampant abuse of power and unchecked violence in Vietnam’s law enforcement apparatus. At 3 am on May 14, public security officers came to Kieu’s house, put manacles on him and took him…

  • 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…

  • Vietnam-China smuggling surges

    Financial Times May 29, 2012 6:35 pm By Ben Bland in Mong Cai Although it looks to be the easiest way to move goods across the narrow river that separates the Vietnamese city of Mong Cai from China, there is surprisingly little traffic on the official border bridge. Apart from a few Vietnamese tourists returning…