Mr. Mai Phan Loi, who has a lot of experience in the Vietnamese newspaper industry and has a certain influence on the country’s social networks, has just been arrested in Hanoi. Vietnam’s state-controlled media on July 2 said that the…
On June 30, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam arrested six senior officials of Binh Duong province. The arrest was described as “expanding the investigation” of a criminal case probed in December 2019 related to a company in which…
The police of Phu Yen province has just announced that Nguyen Bao Tien, a driver, has been detained and accused of “conducting anti-state propaganda” for “distributing” banned books which are printed by the unsanctioned Liberal Publishing House. A statement allegedly…
A democracy activist, human rights activist and charity fundraiser in Hanoi, Nguyen Thuy Hanh, has just been arrested, her relatives and activists from Vietnam told BBC News Vietnamese on April 7. The event took place during the week that Vietnam…
The Investigation Security Agency under the Hanoi City Police Department, arrested Mr. Le Trong Hung on the morning of March 27, 2021, after he submitted a petition to the authorities to protect him during his campaign to run for a…
Journalist Phan Bui Bao Thy, head of the representative office of Giáo dục & Thời đại (Education & Times) newspaper in Danang, on February 10, was probed and arrested for allegedly “setting up anonymous accounts on Facebook to defame leaders.”…
Parliament calls on the Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defenders and journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, and Le Huu Minh Tuan, as well as all others, detained and sentenced in the country for merely…
January 9, 2021, is exactly a year since the Hanoi government sent forces of more than 3,000 riot policemen to attack Dong Tam commune, suburban Hanoi, killing 82-year-old communal leader Le Dinh Kinh, and arresting and probing 29 other land…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, January 2, 2021 According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of December 31, 2020, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or other forms of detention. The number does…
At a press conference on December 21, Ho Chi Minh City’s Police Department informed about the wrongdoings of Mr. Tat Thanh Cang, the former permanent deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee. According to Senior Lieutenant Colonel Pham Van Thanh,…
