By Aun Pheap | January 26, 2015 As 14 Montagnard asylum seekers continue to evade authorities in the forests of Ratanakkiri province, an official said Sunday that police deported seven “Vietnamese Jarai” from the northeastern province on Saturday. Ratanakkiri provincial police chief Nguon Koeun said border police arrested the seven on Saturday in O’Yadaw district’s…

Bloggers Assaulted for Visiting Fellow Activist January 25, 2015 “The Vietnamese government has some serious questions to answer. Is it now government policy to have police travel with thugs to punish people who don’t immediately follow their orders?” Brad Adams, Asia director (New York) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately stop using violence against human…

January 23, 2015 Author(s): Brad Adams, Asia director Published in: The Diplomat Which is worse, being thrown in jail or getting beaten up? This is a question activists in Vietnam were pondering on International Human Rights Day this month. The government of Vietnam has been sending people to prison for dissent for more than half…

19/01/2015 The European Union and Vietnam held on 19 January 2015 in Brussels the fourth round of their annual enhanced Dialogue on Human Rights in the spirit of the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) signed in June 2012. The EU delegation was led by Mr Ugo Astuto, Director for South and South East Asia…

By Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller | January 19, 2015 Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.N. said Sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from…

Sat, 10 January 2015 Chhay Channyda and Daniel Pye At least five ethnic Jarai Montagnards are thought to be hiding in a forest in Ratanakkiri after fleeing Vietnam Armed police in Ratanakkiri province were deployed on Thursday night to sweep the area around a village where they believed several Montagnards who had fled Vietnam were…

Mon, 5 January 2015 Phak Seangly More Montagnard asylum seekers arrived in Ratanakkiri province last week, two of whom were immediately deported, just days after 13 others were given safe passage to claim asylum from religious persecution, villagers and activists said yesterday. Chhay Thy, provincial coordinator for local rights group Adhoc, said seven ethnic Jarai…

The Cambodia Daily By Aun Pheap | January 5, 2015 Two weeks after a group of 13 Montagnard asylum seekers arrived in Phnom Penh to apply for refugee status, police said Sunday that they were searching for another five members of the Vietnamese indigenous group who crossed into Ratanakkiri province on Saturday. O’yadaw district police…

December 22, 2014 Phnom Penh: Thirteen hill tribespeople known as “Montagnards” have left their jungle hideout in Cambodia and will apply for asylum after crossing from Vietnam to flee persecution, it was announced on Sunday. The minority group had for more than seven weeks sought refuge in the jungle in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Rattanakiri,…

The Diplomat Vietnam lodges a submission at The Hague and rejects Chinese position paper on the South China Sea. By Prashanth Parameswaran December 12, 2014 Vietnam and China moved their saber-rattling over the South China Sea into the legal arena this week as Hanoi lodged a submission with an arbitral tribunal at The Hague and…