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Vietnam dissident released, arrives in US
WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says a prominent Vietnamese dissident has arrived in the U.S. after being released from prison by Vietnam. Cu Huy Ha Vu (coo hee haa voh) arrived in Washington with his wife Monday. Vu is among the ruling Communist Party’s highest-profile critics. His father was a revolutionary poet and a…
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Vietnamese Dissident Arrives in US after Early Release from Prison
Marianne Brown April 08, 2014 HANOI — One of Vietnam’s best known dissidents, a rights lawyer and son of a revolutionary poet, has been released early from prison. Afterwards, he traveled to the United States. Lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu, 56, is one of Vietnam’s most famous dissidents. He had served three years of a seven-year prison…
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Vietnam releases dissidents amid foreign pressure
By Associated Press, Published: April 14 HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has granted early release to two high-profile dissidents, bringing the number of democracy activists freed this month to three in what the government Monday called a “policy of leniency.” The unusual moves come as Hanoi is negotiating a free trade deal with the United States that is expected…
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Leading Vietnamese Environmental Defender Freed
April 8, 2014 EDLC and Boat People SOS are delighted to announce that Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, 56, a lawyer, environmentalist, and pro-democracy activist, has been released from a Vietnamese prison and arrived on April 7, 2014 in Washington, D.C. He will serve as a scholar and fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. EDLC and its…
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Death of activist Dinh Dang Dinh should be ‘wake-up call’ for Viet Nam
Amnesty International4 April 2014 Amnesty International has paid tribute to Dinh Dang Dinh, the Vietnamese environmental activist, blogger and former prisoner of conscience, who has died aged 50. The activist was unjustly jailed in 2011 after starting a petition against a mining project and was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. The authorities only allowed…
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Hmong Ordered Jailed for Defying Vietnamese Government Campaign
2014-03-14 A provincial court in northern Vietnam on Friday sentenced a Hmong Christian to 18 months in jail for defying a government campaign forcing the ethnic minority group to return to older funeral practices now considered wasteful by many in the community. Hoang Van Sang, 60, was handed an 18-month jail term by a court…
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Former Vietnamese Official Jailed for Critical Blog Posts
March 19, 2014 by Marianne Brown Phạm Viết Đào, 62, on Wednesday became the latest blogger in Vietnam to receive a jail term for criticizing the government, as Hanoi continues an increasing crackdown against online dissident. After a two-hour trial at the Hanoi People’s Court, Đào was sentenced to 15 months in prison for “abusing…
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Vietnam: Drop Prosecution of Blogger
Pham Viet Dao Shouldn’t Become Next Victim of Political Trial (New York, March 18, 2014) – All charges against the blogger Pham Viet Dao, 62, should be dropped, and he should be released immediately and unconditionally, Human Rights Watch said today. Pham Viet Dao, 62, was arrested on June 13, 2013, in Hanoi, for allegedly…
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Vietnam: Targeting bloggers
The Vietnamese government tolerates no online political debate. Bloggers and cyber-dissidents who dare to question the government’s legitimacy or domestic policies are ruthlessly suppressed. Authorities have deployed a judicial, administrative and technological strike force, based in the Ministry of Information and Communications, to control online information. Though officials and the justice system on their own…
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