Prisoner of conscience Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison on charges of “carrying out activities to overthrow the people’s administration,” is on the 47th day of a hunger strike in Prison camp No. 6…
This year’s International Human Rights Day takes place in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic raging around the world, while in Vietnam, the government has increased its repression and arrests of activists, bloggers, and voices criticizing the communist government. According…
Press release, December 8, 2020 Prisoner of conscience Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who is serving a 16-year prison term at Prison camp No. 6 (Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An province) for fraudulent allegation “activities aimed at overthrowing the People’s administration”…
Mr. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Vietnam’s leading democracy activist serving a 16-year prison term, has been on hunger strike since November 24 to protest the Supreme Court’s failure to respond to his remaining request to waive his penalty, and he…
October 4, 2020 To:MK Benjamin GantzDefense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister For decades, Vietnam has been governed by a dictatorial regime of the “Communist Party of Vietnam”(CPV). Citizens who dare to criticize the CPV are attacked by security forces, arrested,…
On the afternoon of Aug 14, the Higher People’s Court in Hanoi rejected the appeal of former prisoner of conscience and reporter of the Radio Free Asia (RFA) Truong Duy Nhat and upheld the ten-year imprisonment given by the People…
The family of former prisoner of conscience Trinh Ba Khiem has received notices of temporary detentions of his wife Can Thi Theu, who is also a former prisoner of conscience, and two sons Trinh Ba Phuong and Trinh Ba Tu.…
