Bangkok – February 18, 2025 Vietnam’s new social media decree, Decree 147, imposes extreme restrictions on users and platforms alike, said Project88 in a report published today. These restrictions are part of a new wave of repression in the country that the organization has documented. An analysis of Decree 147 of social media describes the […]
Vietnam has enacted a raft of new restrictions on political speech, Project88 said in a report published today. After hardliners took control of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 2016, they enacted political resolutions to maintain party hegemony, which established a nationwide network of brigades to police online discourse. The government was quick to […]
Background On January 9, 2025, Tran Dinh Trien, former deputy director of the Hanoi Bar Association, will stand trial for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, lawful rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens” under Article 331 of Vietnam’s criminal code. Trien was arrested on the same day as Truong […]
December 31, 2024 Dear Secretary of State Antony Blinken, It is a fact that as Vietnam has become increasingly repressive, the United States has given Hanoi a free pass on human rights. According to three former State Department officials interviewed by the Washington Post, the Biden administration has not made Hanoi’s intersifying repression of civil […]
On December 16, 2024, Project88 released its analysis of Vietnam’s new decree (Decree 126) on associations. Decree 126 came into effect on November 26, 2024. Compared to Decree 45, which it replaced, the new decree makes it more difficult to establish an association and gives the government more power to control and monitor the activities […]
Vào ngày 30/10, ông Đường Văn Thái, một blogger nổi tiếng của Việt Nam, đã bị kết án 12 năm tù vì tội ‘làm, tàng trữ, phát tán hoặc tuyên truyền thông tin, tài liệu, vật phẩm nhằm chống Nhà nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam’. Vụ án chống lại ông Thái […]
On October 30, Duong Van Thai, a prominent Vietnamese blogger, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for ‘making, possessing, storing, or spreading information, materials, or items for the purpose of opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’. The case against Thai has garnered international attention because he is credibly believed to have […]
Over the last decade, several environmental movements have emerged in Vietnam. In 2015, organic demonstrations erupted in Hanoi in reaction to a government plan to cut down thousands of trees. The next year, a nation-wide protest movement spilled onto the streets in response to the Formosa environmental disaster. More recently, a group of NGO professionals […]
Press Release Bangkok, 9am ICT, August 15, 2024 READ THE FULL REPORT Project88 released a new report, Apocalypse soon? Vietnam’s unjust energy transition, on Vietnam’s energy transition today. Under the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), nine rich governments committed to mobilize $15.5 billion in funding. In return, Vietnam promised it would phase out […]