Featured Image: Nguyen Van Hoa, Portrait by Liset Celie for The 88 Project 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 February 25-March 3. Political prisoner Nguyen Van Hoa has been on a hunger strike since February 22, in protest of […]
Featured Image: Le Minh The 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 February 18-24. Hien Phap constitutional rights group member Le Minh The will face trial on March 6, and US citizen Michael Nguyen and co-defendants Huynh Duc Thanh Binh and […]
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 February 11-17. Blogger and democracy advocate Phan Kim Khanh will submit a complaint to the court since they still have not taken up an appeal of his case. Tran Hoang Phuc is […]
Featured Image: Former political prisoner, Truong Duy Nhat, currently missing, at his 2014 trial. Source: AFP Photo/Vietnam News Agency 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 February 4-10. Activist Chau Van Kham’s wife published an open letter this week officially […]
Featured Image: Imprisoned activist Ngo Hao, who recently suffered a stroke in prison 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 January 28-February 3. Imprisoned pro-democracy activist Ngo Hao had a stroke in prison, and his family wasn’t notified directly. […]
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 January 21-27. Vietnam has arrested two people for their activism, Chau Van Kham, an Australian democracy advocate, and Nguyen Van Vien, a member of the Brotherhood for Democracy. This week, citizen journalist […]
Featured Image: Dao Quang Thuc 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 January 14-20. Activist and former teacher Dao Quang Thuc’s 14-year sentence was reduced to 13 years on appeal this week. This week also marked anniversaries for many political […]
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 January 7-13. We have updates on the health and statuses of political prisoners Hoang Duc Binh, Tran Hoang Phuc, and Phan Kim Khanh. Three months into his detention, detained activist Le Minh The […]
The 88 Project, January 8, 2019: 2019 started with a high-profile forced eviction against residents of Loc Hung vegetable garden, a Catholic residential neighborhood situated in the middle of Ho Chi Minh city. Hundreds of residents, many of them political activists, suddenly found themselves homeless, with neither compensation for the lost land nor the benefit […]
Featured Image: Land confiscation in progress at Loc Hung on January 4, 2019. Source: Facebook Pham Doan Trang. Happy New Year from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of December 24, 2018-January 6, 2019. Huynh Truong Ca, co-founder of a constitutional rights […]