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 19-25. Coming up on May 5, land rights activist Can Thi Theu and her son Trinh Ba Tu will be tried on charges of conducting “propaganda against the state.” This week, online […]
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 12-18. In case you missed it, our report on human rights in Vietnam in 2020 is out now– read it here. Last week, authorities arrested prominent activist Nguyen Thuy Hanh; read more about […]
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 5-11. In case you missed it, our report on human rights in Vietnam in 2020 is out now– read it here! Authorities this week arrested prominent activist Nguyen Thuy Hanh, as well as […]
Freedom fighter and democracy activist Tran Huynh Duy Thuc is an engineer and entrepreneur from Ho Chi Minh City (b. 1966) who started his own internet company in the early 2000s. He was arrested in May 2009 and sentenced to sixteen years in prison, allegedly for “activities to overthrow the government.” The freedom fighter is […]
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 29-April 4. Another journalist has been arrested for writing about corruption. Four activists were sentenced to 27 years in prison this week in two separate trials. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc has begun […]
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 22-28. Police this week arrested Dr. Nguyen Duy Huong for his Facebook posts critical of the state. Police also kidnapped Facebooker Le Trong Hung, who had planned to run for an independent seat […]
Poet Trần Đức Thạch (b. 1952) was a soldier in the North Vietnamese army and the author of the short story ‘The Haunting Mass Grave.” He was sentenced in 2009 to three years in prison for “propaganda against the state.” His human rights activism came spontaneously. He denied military orders from above to “better kill […]
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 15-21. We have several updates on the health of political prisoners behind bars, including Nguyen Thu Ngoc Suong and music Nguyen Nang Tinh, who are both in poor health, and Nguyen […]
The Vietnamese government usually boasts about its achievements in pursuing gender equality. Referring to the ratio of women representatives in the Vietnam National Assembly, which stands at 27 percent, the government insists on its myth of the progressive development of Vietnamese politics and sometimes even its superiority over other countries in this area. However, such […]
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 8-14. Six defendants in the Dong Tam Commune case had their appeals denied this week; two are facing death sentences and one life in prison. The six were tried as part of […]