June 14, 2024 Y Quynh Bdap, an activist for ethnic and religious minority rights and the co-founder of Montagnards Stand for Justice (MSFJ), was arrested by Thai police on June 11, 2024 in Bangkok. He was arrested in response to a request by the foreign affairs office of the Thai public prosecutor, and the arrest […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 3-9. State media has confirmed the arrests of writer Truong Huy San and lawyer Tran Dinh Trien. Project88’s Ben Swanton told the AP that San’s arrest “represents an alarming attack on freedom of the press and […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 27-June 2. Project88 has learned of two major arrests – well-known author Truong Huy San and high profile lawyer Tran Dinh Trien are both believed to have been detained in the past week. State […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 20-26. To Lam is Vietnam’s new President. The former police minister is taking the helm during political instability and an evolving crackdown on dissent, largely orchestrated by Lam’s former agency, the Ministry of Public Security. Lam came under […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 13-19. Vietnam has named police minister To Lam as President amid a deepening crackdown on dissent, including the recent arrest of top labor reformer Nguyen Van Binh and a plan to subvert democratic control over public policy and […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 6-12. One former administrator of the “Patriotic Diary” Facebook page, Phan Tat Thanh, was sentenced to eight years in prison this week. Another, Nguyen Van Dung (Dung Aduku), is presumed dead under unknown circumstances. […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 29-May 5. Hanoi police have arrested Nguyen Van Binh (51), the director general of the Legal Affairs Department at Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA)— the first arrest of a government reformer in […]
Hanoi police have arrested Nguyen Van Binh (51), the director general of the Legal Affairs Department at Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) — the first arrest of a government reformer in recent years. Binh was leading efforts to ratify ILO Convention 87, which, if passed, would guarantee workers the right to […]
Below is a letter from Tran Phuong Thao, wife of imprisoned climate leader Dang Dinh Bach. In it, she describes the inhumane conditions in which Bach is being kept in prison– in what is known as a “tiger cage”– as well as the very real effects that the imprisonment is having on their family. Their three-year-old son […]
Above: Hoang Duc Binh is a labor rights activist currently serving 14 years in prison May 1, 2024 – International Workers’ Day Freedom of association does not currently exist in Vietnam. Observers hope that domestic and international developments expected later this year may help to change that, but the prospects of Vietnam implementing true labor […]