On the morning of January 8, 2020, the Higher People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City held the appeal hearing of four members of the unsanctioned group Hiến Pháp (Constitution) who appealed the verdict given by the People’s Court of…
The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) has voiced concerns about Vietnam’s use of “vaguely defined laws” to arbitrarily arrest more and more journalists, bloggers, and defenders of human rights. OHCHR’s press release released on January 8,…
On December 14, 2020, the Supreme People’s Court in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and the UN Development Program (UNDP) organized a consultation workshop on the draft evaluation report five years of implementing the 2014 Law on Organization of…
The US State Department and the European Union (EU) both voiced a “harsh” sentence and called for the release of three members of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), who were convicted at the trial on January 5. In…
As of the last day of 2020, political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc may have held a hunger strike on the 38th day according to family information in November. Ms. Tran Thi Dieu Lien, an older sister of political prisoner…
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”…
When reporting to Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly (NA) on the morning of Nov 6 regarding the results of implementing the resolutions of the NA on supervision and questioning during the 14th term and a number of resolutions during…
