Democratic Voice of Vietnam

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Category: Freedoms

  • 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]

  • Vietnam: Overturn Activist Blogger’s 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: 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…

  • Reporters Without Borders in 2012 ranks Vietnam 172 out of 179 countries

    http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html

  • Farming land cleared in Vietnam for Eco Park

    Posted 12 January 2009, 12:01 AEST The clearing of land has begun for a new township and golf course south east of Vietnam’s capital Hanoi despite protests from hundreds of farmers.  Presenter: Christine Webster Speaker: Carl Thayer, specialist in Vietnamese politics and Professor of Politics from the University of New South Wales at the Australian…

  • Vietnam Bloggers Battle Tightening Censorship

    Cat Barton |  May 09, 2012 In a photograph taken on May 7, 2012, a man watches a video posted on the popular blog of Dr. Nguyen Xuan Dien showing villagers challenging policemen during forced land evictions in the neighboring province’s Van Giang district on April 24, 2012. When riot police broke up a recent…

  • Report on the demolition of the Phap Bien Pagoda, Ba Ria, Vung Tau

    REPORT Government of Phước Thuận Village, Xuyên Mộc District, Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, Vietnam Demolished Pháp Biên Pagoda and Attacked Buddhists.  Vietnam, June 1, 2012 To: The Government and Congress of the United   States The Government and Parliament of the European Union The Government and Parliament of Canada The Government and Parliament of…

  • Vietnam facing “time bomb” of dissent

    “The US government and rights groups are expressing concern over Vietnam’s crackdown on freedom of expression, as the regime faces growing dissent and labor militancy,” the Democracy Digest of April 18, 2012, reports. Among the more notorious human rights violations in recent days figure the following: A Catholic priest, Nguyen Van Binh of Yen Kien…

  • Hanoi contemplates further restrictions on Internet freedom

    In a new decree expected to replace the existing one, known as Ministerial Decree No. 97/2008/ND-CP, by June this year, the Ministry of Information and Communications proposes to: (1) forbid the use of a nickname in securing Internet services (for instance, one must use one’s real name on Facebook and on one’s blog); (2) protect…

  • 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…