Next week marks one year since the U.S. and Vietnam elevated diplomatic relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. In a timeline below, Project88 reflects on major human rights events during the first year of the upgrade, including the revelation of Directive 24, the arrest of key labor reformers, the attempted extradition of Montagnard activist Y […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam from August 23-31. Y Quynh Bdap’s extradition hearing continues in Bangkok. A Facebook user is sentenced to six years in prison in Vietnam. Journalist Nguyen Vu Binh and blogger Phan Van Bach are both expected to be tried […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam from August 15-22. Our new report, Apocalypse soon? Vietnam’s unjust energy transition, discusses a lack of progress and participation in Vietnam’s G7-funded energy transition. Our report concluded that all parties have failed to live up to their sides of […]
On August 15, a Hanoi court sentenced Nguyen Chi Tuyen, also known as Anh Chi, to five years in prison for “making, storing or distributing information, documents and items aimed against the state of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” (Article 117). Only his wife and lawyers were allowed in the courtroom. Nguyen Chi Tuyen was […]
Nguyen Van Dung in a 2021 interview with Project88 On May 8, 2024, Nguyen Van Dung’s body washed ashore on the Red River near Chau Son Village. He had gone missing two days after being released from police custody, where he was held and interrogated for three straight days. Nguyen Van Dung, also known as […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam from August 8-14. This week, Project88 released a new report, Apocalypse soon? Vietnam’s unjust energy transition, on Vietnam’s G7-funded energy transition. Under the arrangement, called the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), nine rich governments committed to mobilize $15.5 billion in […]
Nguyen Chi Tuyen will be tried for “making, storing or distributing information, documents and items aimed against the state of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” (Article 117) on August 15 in Hanoi. He was arrested on February, 29, 2024, and held incommunicado. Project88 spoke with Bennett Murray, former bureau chief for DPA (the German press […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam from July 30-August 7. The U.S. Commerce Department announced last Friday it will continue to classify Vietnam as a non-market economy country. In their decision, the Commerce Department credited Project88’s revelations about Directive 24 with helping reach that decision. The Commerce Department […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam from July 23-29. Project88 has confirmed that energy policy expert Ngo Thi To Nhien was convicted in late June and likely sentenced to 42 months in prison. Influential blogger Nguyen Chi Tuyen (Anh Chi) will be tried on August 15. And […]
Exactly one month before European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is due to touch down in Hanoi for climate talks, the Hanoi People’s Court sentenced energy policy think tank director Ngo Thi To Nhien to prison, three sources told Project88. Two of these sources said that Nhien was sentenced to 42 months prison time. […]