Above: Tran Hoang Phuc, Source: Defend the Defenders Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 3 to 9. Another activist, Tran Hoang Phuc, 23, has been arrested under Article 88 for “propaganda against the […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee 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 26 to July 2. News of blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh aka Me Nam (Mother Mushroom) has dominated local and international headlines and social media this week as […]
After being arrested in October 2016, blogger and environmental activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, or Mother Mushroom, a.k.a. Me Nam, 38, was sentenced on June 29 to ten years in prison under Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code for her online postings and interviews. The trial was brief, secretive and guarded, continuing a pattern of […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 19 to 25. Blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh’s trial is scheduled for next week on June 29, admist appeals from international organizations to […]
May 24th, 2017 marks eight years since blogger and entrepreneur Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was arrested by the Vietnamese authorities. He is the founder of a large Internet provider in Vietnam and often blogged about economic and social conditions. He was arrested at first on charges involving theft of telephone wires, and then later under […]
In Freedom Houses’s new report “Freedom of the Press 2017: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizons,” 13 is the magic number. That’s the meager percentage of the world population that currently lives in a country where the press is classified as “Free.” The report also deems press freedom to be at its lowest level worldwide in 13 […]
Given the recent violent clashes between citizens and police in Vietnam, the proposed ban on audio and video recording devices, and arrests of several prominent bloggers so far in 2017, it may come as little surprise that Vietnam ranks 175 out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders’s (RSF) newly-released 2017 World Press Freedom Index. […]
A new report from Amnesty International, Death Sentences and Executions 2016, sheds light on the numbers of those executed under the death penalty in Vietnam in recent years. The global amount of executions decreased from 2015 to 2016, and it is still declining in the US as well. In Vietnam, however, recently disclosed data shows that […]
With the controversial actions of the Trump administration in the weeks since the inauguration, many are wondering what four years of Trump means for minority groups and the future of the US and other nations alike. The 88 Project explores what impact Trump could have on Vietnam, US-Asia relations, and human rights in the region. Under […]
In its newest report, Freedom in the World 2017, Freedom House has once again decided that Vietnam is “Not Free.” Many other Asian countries, including all of Vietnam’s neighbors, received the same designation, reflecting the larger trends of repression of freedom of expression and the violations of human rights seen in Asia and other regions […]