Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 6-12. Yet another online commentator was handed a harsh sentence for his Facebook posts as the state continues its pressure campaign to stifle freedom of speech. Unsurprisingly, Vietnam’s candidacy to the UN Human […]
Above: Nguyen Duy Linh with Ben Tre Province police; Source: Bao Dong Khoi via RFA Vietnamese Nguyen Duy Linh was today sentenced to five years in prison and five years of probation after a court in the southern province of Ben Tre convicted him of “opposing” the government on social media. Linh was arrested in […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 30-June 5. A Facebook user will go on trial next week for postings the government deemed to be “anti-state propaganda.” A jailed independent journalist is not recognizable to his family after spending […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 23-29. A sixth person was arrested in connection with the Bong Lai Zen Temple case. A jailed 72-year-old independent journalist is having serious health issues. A recently freed and exiled political prisoner […]
It has now been over 13 months since police in Hanoi arrested Nguyen Thuy Hanh, a campaigner for the families of political prisoners. Hanh was detained at her home in April 2021 after the authorities charged her with violating Article 117 of the 2015 Criminal Code, an article commonly used to lock-up vocal critics of […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 16-22. It was a busy week post US-ASEAN summit. A political prisoner was finally allowed to see his children after more than a year. There are also updates on the conditions of […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 9-15. Two political prisoners were allowed to emigrate to the United States on the eve of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s trip to Washington. There was another arrest in the case of the […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. A Facebooker was sentenced to eight years in prison for “anti-state propaganda.” An activist was transferred to a mental hospital without her family’s knowledge. A political prisoner’s wife was allowed to see her husband for the first time in 10 months, another in over a year. A writer is harassed for winning […]
Political prisoner Le Trong Hung (pictured above), sentenced on New Year’s Eve 2021 to five years in prison, was forced to attend an appeal trial without his consent and with no lawyers present. Hung was an independent journalist for four years at Chen Hung Viet Nam TV (CHTV), a social media TV channel, where he […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 25 – May 1. Yet another Facebooker was sentenced to years in prison for conducting “anti-state propaganda.” After completing his prison sentence, an activist was shipped to a city 900 km away from […]