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Nguyen Dang Minh Man is a former political prisoner who just completed her eight-year prison sentence on August 2, 2019. The Catholic activist and photojournalist was arrested in 2011 for recording peaceful protests and sentenced for subversion. Behind bars, she endured difficult conditions, went on hunger strike, and was also placed in solitary confinement. This […]
The 88 Project, March 13, 2017: “My daughter Minh Mẫn was beaten and wounded in prison, and she was held in solitary confinement in a stinky cell for 10 days.” Mrs. Đặng Ngọc Minh, mother of Minh Mẫn, shared in an interview with SBTN. On March 12, 2017, on her Facebook, Mrs. Đặng Ngọc Minh […]
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 […]
Dang Dinh Bach In this letter, Tran Phuong Thao provides an update on her husband Dang Dinh Bach‘s conditions in prison and the ongoing harassment of their family, including forcible seizure of their assets and potentially their home. Bach is currently on a partial hunger strike to protest his unjust imprisonment and has vowed to […]
Below is a translation by The 88 Project of an open letter shared by family members of political prisoners in light of the death of political prisoner Do Cong Duong in detention on August 2, 2022. Duong is the latest in a series of political prisoners to die behind bars under questionable circumstances. Most recently, […]
Dang Dinh Bach is an environmental advocate sentenced to prison for five years for “tax evasion” in Vietnam. Many suspect that the charge brought against him is politically motivated. Dang Dinh Bach delivered a speech at the “Meeting program of Vietnamese environmental ambassadors,” organized by GNH Talk, from April 30 to May 01, 2021. This […]
On May 9, 2022 The 88 Project released its annual report on the situation of activists and political prisoners in Vietnam. The report is informed by the organization’s database – the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind – and details the latest chapter of the Vietnamese government’s crackdown on political dissent. Vietnam’s one-party state stepped […]
From a human rights point of view, the Year of the Buffalo was indeed an eventful one in Vietnam, with many arrests and trials happening throughout the year, all the way up to the very last day of 2021. To give you a sense of what received the most attention from our readers, here are […]
As people all over the globe celebrate the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948, we would like to remind the world that human rights remain an elusive ideal and an endless struggle in Vietnam. To put it bluntly, the human rights picture in Vietnam in 2021 is dark and depressing, […]
It’s been an eventful year so far in Vietnamese politics. Arrests of critics of the regime have taken place against the backdrop of the 13th National Party Congress, National Assembly elections, and rising Coronavirus infections. Twenty-three critics of the regime have been arrested during the first seven months of 2021, while 20 have been sentenced […]