Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 22-28. Online commentator Nguyen Van Nghiem was sentenced to six years in prison on June 23. That same day, independent journalist Chu Vinh Hai was summoned for police questioning. On June […]
Featured Image: Trinh Ba Tu’s arrest, Source On just a single day this month, the Vietnamese authorities arrested six people in the continuation of a crackdown on dissent that has escalated in recent months. At least eleven people have been arrested for their activism activities in total in June 2020. The majority of those arrested […]
ILLINOIS, U.S., June 22, 2020 – In the 2019 Report on Political Prisoners and Activists at Risk in Vietnam, we highlight Vietnam’s troublesome human rights record over the past year. We document arrests, trials, harassment, and abuse of political prisoners and activists at risk. The 65-page report also includes evaluation of Vietnam’s failure to comply […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 15-21. Amidst a crackdown on online expression and free press in recent weeks, police in Ho Chi Minh City this week arrested two men for their affiliation with a Facebook discussion group, […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 8-14. The Vietnamese government continued targeting the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam after the arrest of key leaders in recent months, with the arrest of Le Huu Minh Tuan this week. Authorities […]
The 88 Project had the opportunity to interview former political prisoner Tran Thi Nga about her experience in prison and conditions in prison for women and children. Tran Thi Nga was released from prison in January and sent immediately into exile in the United States. She was about three years into a nine-year prison sentence […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 1-7. The authorities have finished their investigation into Dinh Van Phu, who was arrested in January for his online posts. Locals arrested in the raid on Dong Tam Commune in January […]
Vietnam has emerged as a success story in dealing with COVID-19 while the pandemic ravages the globe. With the official report of only over 300 confirmed cases and no fatalities due to the virus, there is little doubt that the authorities have delivered a remarkable strategy and results in containing the spread of the deadly […]
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 25-31. The international community is responding to the arrests of two well-known activists last week in Vietnam. Pham Chi Thanh and Nguyen Tuong Thuy were both arrested under charges of “propaganda against […]
Featured Image: Pham Chi Thanh, Source: his blog via Radio Free Asia 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 18-24. The Ministry of Public Security this week arrested dissident writer Pham Chi Thanh under Article 117 for propaganda against the […]