Project88 made the below submission ahead US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. Click here to download the full pdf. *** October 31, 2023 United States Department of State Washington D.C. Re: 2023 US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue Dear Secretary Blinken, The achievement of closer ties between the U.S. and Vietnam has coincided with […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 24-30. A human rights lawyer harassed for years by the authorities left the country. There are more personal stories of alleged abusive practices against political prisoners, including two accounts by former police officers […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 17-23. *** “Not only have arrests and harassment of HRDs continued unabated since Vietnam’s last UPR, but the government has also taken up new strategies to clamp down on dissent, like imprisoning NGO […]
Project88 and Front Line Defenders made a joint UPR submission ahead of Vietnam’s scheduled spring 2024 review. “Not only have arrests and harassment of human rights defenders continued unabated since Vietnam’s last UPR,” said Project88 Co-Director Kaylee Uland, “but the government has also taken up new strategies to clamp down on dissent, like imprisoning NGO […]
Greetings from Project 88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 10-16. Project 88’s Ben Swanton spoke with The Guardian about Vietnam’s targeting of the very climate activists that helped the country negotiate international environmental support in the first place. Meanwhile, Vietnam […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of October 3-9. Nguyen Viet Dung is a tough but learned man with firm democratic convictions. He was incarcerated twice for his political activities, including flying the flag of the former South Vietnam and […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2. “This conviction is a total fraud, nobody should be fooled by it.” -Ben Swanton, Co-Director of Project 88 on the conviction of Hoang Thi Minh Hong for tax evasion *** The conviction […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of September 19-25. The U.S. president had no sooner left Hanoi than Vietnam resumed arresting activists and executing its citizens. Two recently released democracy activists share harrowing accounts of physical abuse in prison. Hoang […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of September 12-18. Ngo Thi To Nhien, executive director of Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET), has been detained. Hoang Thi Ming Hong, former director of the Center of Hands-on Action and Networking […]
Below is an update from the family of Tran Huynh Duy Thuc after their visit with Thuc following his allegation that he was attacked in his cell by knife-wielding men dressed in prisoner uniforms. Project 88 has completed a translation of the family visit summary; the original Vietnamese version is posted below the translation. Tran […]