Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 22-28. The US State Department listed numerous areas of concern in its 2023 Country Report on Vietnam yet reported “no significant changes” in the status of human rights overall, despite concrete evidence from Project88 and […]
Project88 recorded 32 new arrests of political prisoners by Vietnamese authorities in 2023. For the full list of arrests, click here. This is up from 28 arrests in 2022. Among those arrested in 2023 were at least eight ethnic minority activists and nine women. Vietnam arrested a wide range of people in 2023 – Facebook […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 15-21. Project88’s work exposing the secret government document Directive 24 continues to shape international discourse. Experts from the Human Rights Committee tasked with preparing a list of issues to be addressed during the review of […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 7-14. Apple’s CEO visits Vietnam to elevate its “connection with local suppliers, clean water projects and education opportunities.” The visit comes just days after Project88 and dozens of other environmental and human rights organizations called on the company […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 31-April 6. “Describing meetings with Western diplomats and EU officials since his organization published Directive 24 – the existence of which has been repeatedly reference by top Vietnamese leaders, and in state media and […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 23-30. In the past week, Vietnam has arrested five Buddhists from the same pagoda and three other men on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms.” A court also sentenced an administrator of a Facebook group […]
Below is a letter from Tran Phuong Thao, wife of imprisoned climate leader Dang Dinh Bach. In it, she alleges Prison No. 6 in Nghe An province has denied Bach photos of his young son — who was only weeks old when Bach was arrested — and his elderly parents, as well as books of various topics. […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 15-22. In response to a question from VOA about the human rights implications of Directive 24, Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs Ministry did not refer to our report by name but said the ministry opposes “false and fabricated information […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of March 8-14. Project88 writes about increasing cyber repression in a joint report with the ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship. Meanwhile, US businesses plan to sell equipment to Vietnam’s police, and Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has […]
Below is a letter from Tran Phuong Thao, wife of imprisoned climate leader Dang Dinh Bach. In it, she alleges Prison No. 6 in Nghe An province deliberately withheld a package of food from Bach, leaving him to have essentially no access to food for two weeks. This serious allegation should be thoroughly investigated by […]