Featured Image: Dao Quang Thuc Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of January 14-20. Activist and former teacher Dao Quang Thuc’s 14-year sentence was reduced to 13 years on appeal this week. This week also marked anniversaries for many political […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of January 7-13. We have updates on the health and statuses of political prisoners Hoang Duc Binh, Tran Hoang Phuc, and Phan Kim Khanh. Three months into his detention, detained activist Le Minh The […]
The 88 Project, January 8, 2019: 2019 started with a high-profile forced eviction against residents of Loc Hung vegetable garden, a Catholic residential neighborhood situated in the middle of Ho Chi Minh city. Hundreds of residents, many of them political activists, suddenly found themselves homeless, with neither compensation for the lost land nor the benefit […]
Featured Image: Land confiscation in progress at Loc Hung on January 4, 2019. Source: Facebook Pham Doan Trang. Happy New Year from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of December 24, 2018-January 6, 2019. Huynh Truong Ca, co-founder of a constitutional rights […]
Featured Image: Imprisoned Hoa Hao Buddhist Nguyen Tan An Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of December 17-23. As 2018 comes to an end, please check out our recap of Vietnam’s continued crackdown on dissent this year. 2018 saw an increase over […]
Featured Image: Tran Thi Xuan in court on April 12, 2018. Source: VietnamNet The 88 Project, December 23, 2018: This year was another brutal one for protesters, religious communities, journalists, bloggers, and many other activists in Vietnam. 2018 saw an increase over 2017 in the number of activists arrested and tried, as well as the […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of December 10-16. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc’s family and a lawyer came to visit him after allegations of a poisoning against him in prison. A British Member of the European Parliament also sent […]
MEP Julie Ward. Source: Labour in Europe On December 13, Julie Ward, a member of the European Parliament from England, sent a letter to the President of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, expressing concern over the recent treatment of political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, which included a potential poisoning in prison in late November. You […]
Featured Image: Imprisoned pastor and democracy activist Nguyen Trung Ton Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of December 3-9. There are updates from prison this week on the health and situations of political prisoners Vu Quang Thuan and Nguyen Trung […]
This letter (below) was written by Tran Huynh Duy Thuc’s daughter in light of a possible attempted poisoning against him in prison on November 20 and overall worsened prison conditions. Thuc is one of Vietnam’s most well-known political prisoners and one of the leaders of the democratic movement. The founder of an Internet service provider company, […]