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Vietnam: Stop Blocking ‘Human Rights Picnics’
Activists Harassed and Assaulted for Discussing Rights (New York, May 11, 2013) – The Vietnamese authorities should stop impeding and abusing people trying to hold “human rights picnics” in public spaces, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite government abuse and bullying, some people did succeed in holding informal gatherings and discussed the day’s events online.…
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40 years on, fleeing Vietnamese take to seas again
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country’s Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again. This year alone, 460 Vietnamese men, women and children have arrived on Australian shores — more than in the last five years combined. The unexpected spike…
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Banned Vietnamese Buddhist Group’s Pagoda Blockaded
Security forces in southern Vietnam surrounded the pagoda of a banned Buddhist group over the weekend and barred monks from leaving the monastery, in the latest crackdown on the group in the one-party communist state. The blockade of the Giac Hoa Pagoda belonging to the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) in Ho Chi…
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USCIRF’s 2013 Annual Report on the State of International Religious Freedom Identifies World’s Worst Violators
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2013 Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body created by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, today released its 2013 Annual Report. The Report highlights the status of religious freedom globally and identifies those governments…
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In Hard Times, Open Dissent and Repression Rise in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer. A former adviser to two prime ministers, Mr. Tuong, like so many…
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European Parliament resolution on Vietnam, in particular freedom of expression
(2013/2599(RSP)) The European Parliament, – having regard to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Vietnam signed on 27 June 2012 and to the EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue held twice a year between the EU and the government of Vietnam, – having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to…
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US: Vietnam backsliding on human rights
MATTHEW PENNINGTON | March 21, 2013 07:41 PM EST | Compare other versions » ——————————————————————————– WASHINGTON — The Obama administration expressed concern Thursday about Vietnam’s “backsliding” on human rights and asserted that advancing individual freedoms is key to U.S. policy in Asia. One example cited is Hanoi’s treatment of bloggers who have faced prosecution under…
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Mysterious Attack on a Vietnamese Blog Anh Ba Sam
Asia Sentinel Written by David Brown Monday, 18 March 2013 Round up the usual suspects… Twenty months ago, I was approached by a member of the team that puts out the Anh Ba Sam blog, Vietnam’s leading source of “alternative news.” Would I mind, they asked, if they posted a Vietnamese translation of a story…
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