Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of August 3-9. Truong Duy Nhat will have his appeal trial on August 14. Two US Senators wrote a letter to the US Secretary of State about Vietnam’s violation of religious freedom. Vietnam Advocacy Day continued with […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 27-August 2. Eight defendants, some of whom are members of the Hien Phap group, were sentenced to between two and a half to eight years in prison in a trial that was […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 20-26. The appeal trial for two BOT protesters has been delayed. Legal Initiatives for Vietnam has launched a new database focusing on violations of religious freedom. And despite its dismal human […]
Featured Image: Imprisoned journalist Le Anh Hung Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 13-19. Nguyen Van Tuc’s family was unable to complete their visit with Tuc in prison due to restrictions on the number of visitors and […]
Six months into 2020, the intensive crackdown against activists and journalists carried out by the Vietnamese government continues. Its latest victim includes arguably the last independent journalist organization in the country. On May 23, 2020, Nguyen Tuong Thuy was arrested and his apartment searched by the Public Security Department of Hanoi. Thuy, a 70-year-old military […]
Featured Image: Le Huu Minh Tuan (right) with Bui Minh Quoc in 2017, Source: Facebook Pham Doan Trang Take action to speak out against the intensified targeting of land rights activist journalists, and other dissidents in Vietnam these past few weeks. Share the joint letter signed by The 88 Project and nine other organizations calling […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of June 29-July 5 and July 6-12. On July 7, The People’s Court of Long Dam Province sentenced online commentator Nguyen Quoc Duc Vuong to eight years in prison in a continued crackdown […]
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 22-28. Online commentator Nguyen Van Nghiem was sentenced to six years in prison on June 23. That same day, independent journalist Chu Vinh Hai was summoned for police questioning. On June […]
Featured Image: Trinh Ba Tu’s arrest, Source On just a single day this month, the Vietnamese authorities arrested six people in the continuation of a crackdown on dissent that has escalated in recent months. At least eleven people have been arrested for their activism activities in total in June 2020. The majority of those arrested […]
ILLINOIS, U.S., June 22, 2020 – In the 2019 Report on Political Prisoners and Activists at Risk in Vietnam, we highlight Vietnam’s troublesome human rights record over the past year. We document arrests, trials, harassment, and abuse of political prisoners and activists at risk. The 65-page report also includes evaluation of Vietnam’s failure to comply […]