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 […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 2-8. A spate of environment-related news highlights the risks Vietnam faces as it tries to reach its carbon-neutral goals and obligations– especially while its climate leaders remain targets of government […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 25-May 1. The disappearance of an asylum seeker in Thailand looks increasingly like another kidnapping of a Vietnamese dissenter on foreign soil. A father seeking answers for his son’s suspicious […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 18-24. In case you missed it, last week we released our new report, Weaponizing the law to prosecute the Vietnam Four, which details our investigation into the charges of tax […]
Vietnam: Law Weaponized to Prosecute Climate Activists G7 must demand no more arrests under energy transition deal (Bangkok, April 21, 2023) – The Vietnamese government arbitrarily applied criminal law to prosecute the country’s leading climate activists for tax evasion, Project 88 said in a report released today. The activists- Dang Dinh Bach, Nguy Thi Khanh, […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 11-17. This week’s Vietnam news is dominated by two major events: a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the severe prison sentence handed down to an activist […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 4-10. The Vietnamese government has been harassing and conducting reprisals against jailed environmental leader Dang Dinh Bach’s wife, Tran Phuong Thao. Read the details in our open letter, here. Nguyen […]
H.E. Le Thanh Long Minister of Justice, Viet Nam H.E. General To Lam Minister of Public Security, Viet Nam April 10, 2023 Your Excellencies, Re: Harassment and reprisals against wife of human rights defender Đặng Đình Bách (Dang Dinh Bach). We are writing in regards to […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 28-April 3. A husband and wife team lost their appeal, unsurprisingly. However, two other prisoners have been released early for reasons unknown. On the other hand, another recent recipient of […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 21-27. A prominent activist was sentenced to six years in prison. Two recently released prisoners describe the physical conditions in their respective prison camps. One political prisoner’s family is now […]