Following a flurry of high-profile trials in the last two weeks of 2021, the People’s Court in Vietnam kept on rolling as the new year began. The first two weeks alone saw an incredible eight arrests under Articles 117 and 331, with a few multi-year sentences tacked on for good measure. The actions actually heated […]
Dang Dinh Bach, director of the non-profit organization Law and Policy of Sustainable Development (LPSD), will be brought to trial on Monday, January 24, 2022. He was accused of “tax evasion” and charged under Article 200 of the 2015 Criminal Code on July 2, 2021. Bach was arrested just two weeks after his wife gave […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of January 10-16. Barely two weeks into the new year and the government of Vietnam is already busy charging numerous people with Article 117. At least eight people have been arrested, a few of […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of December 20-26, December 27-January 2, and January 3-9. The year 2021 closed with an unprecedented string of trials for multiple human rights defenders that resulted in over 60 years of imprisonment. An appeals […]
Do Le Na, the wife of political prisoner Le Trong Hung, has shared the latest updates on her husband’s condition. Hung tried to run as an independent for a seat in the National Assembly but was arrested in March 2021, before the election took place. An independent journalist for CHTV for four years, Hung was […]
On December 24, 2021, the Court of Appeals in Hoa Binh heard the case of Can Thi Theu and her son Trinh Ba Tu. They were arrested in June, 2020, for helping Dong Tam villagers gather information about the deadly police assault on the commune in January 2020. As a result, both were sentenced to […]
On January 5, 2021, Le Huu Minh Tuan walked into a courtroom in Ho Chi Minh City, and, alongside two other independent journalists, was slammed with an 11-year prison sentence for conducting “propaganda against the State.” Before Tuan’s appeal trial, we talked to Le Thi Hoai Tam, the older sister of Le Huu Minh Tuan. […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of December 13-19. There will be no newsletter on December 26 or January 2. We will return with a newsletter on January 9. It was a disheartening week with three consecutive first-instance trials of […]
On December 16, 2021, long-time activist and former political prisoner Do Nam Trung was given a 10 year prison sentence for conducting “anti-State propaganda,” bringing the total number of Article 117 victims to four in just three days — a new record. Out of the four people tried in the same week– Pham Doan Trang, […]
Vietnam continues to systematically and actively suppress the freedom of expression of its citizens, despite committing to uphold this right in its Constitution and several international human rights treaties. To fight for the human rights that Vietnamese citizens deserve to have, they must pay for this with their imprisonment and even their blood. As of […]