Not Just Football, Some Vietnamese Do Care About Human Rights, Political Pluralism, and Democracy
Throughout 2018 and up until yesterday, January 24, 2019, the world continued to witness Vietnamese people’s love of football exploded, ...
Tag: Human Rights
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc: A Decade Behind Bars
Nine years ago, on January 20, 2010, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City convicted Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, ...
Vietnam Rings In 2019 with More Restrictions on Citizens’ Freedoms
During the last week of December 2018, Vietnam’s state-owned newspapers flooded the country’s social media with articles on rules and ...
World Report On The Situation Of Human Rights Defenders: UN Expert Urges Vietnam To Stop Criminalize Activists
This week, the office of UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Michel Forst, released the first ...
How Closed Is Civic Space in Vietnam?
UPDATE ON DECEMBER 20, 2018: The correct decree number has been included after more information was released by the organizers ...
Vietnamese Government Celebrates National Day By Violating Its Own Constitution
Today| marks the 73rd year since Ho Chi Minh stood at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945, and proclaimed ...
“Minds” over Facebook: Vietnamese Netizens’ Great Cyber Exodus?
In the past two days, the “F-Generation” of Vietnam started what seems to be an online exodus when many well-known ...
Black Sundays Report: Vietnamese People’s Response To Police Brutality During June 2018 Protests
Civilians, victims of police brutality and arbitrary detention, academics, activists, researchers, and a lot more people from all walks of ...
Saigon Is Under De-facto Martial Law
June 17, 2018| Hundreds of people were stopped, detained, searched, and later taken to a temporary holding center set up ...
The Right to Protest In Vietnam Is Not Only Legal, It’s Constitutional
On June 14, 2018, AFP reported, the spokesperson of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Le Thi Thu Hang, told reporters ...