Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Feb. 2-8. Our thoughts are with political prisoners and their families as we celebrate Tet. Two prisoners are currently on hunger strikes. One Facebook user was arrested this week, another was sentenced to three and a […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1. A human rights defender who’s been in pre-trial detention for over two years has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. A rare admission by a prison official of physical abuse of a detainee. Another […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Jan. 18-25. One political prisoner is currently in solitary confinement; another is believed to have been diagnosed with cancer. Hanoi sees developments on energy, the environment, defense, and business with several foreign governments. However, in […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Jan. 10-17. A so-called godfather of state-run media was arrested amidst false rumors of the passing of Vietnam’s Party boss. Two Montagnards face death sentences for the Dak Lak uprising. A recently released prisoner alleges […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Jan. 3-9. Read in Vietnamese: Project88’s analysis of the case against environmentalist and NGO leader Ngo Thi To Nhien. The English version is available here. *** Now that nearly all prominent democracy and environmental activists have been either […]
Vào ngày 28/11, Dự Án 88 đã công bố một bản tóm tắt mới về việc chính quyền Việt Nam bắt giữ bà Ngô Thị Tố Nhiên và ghi chép lại vụ bắt giữ bà là một phần trong hoạt động đàn áp các nhà hoạt động khí hậu đang diễn ra ở Việt Nam. […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the weeks of Dec. 20-26 and Dec. 27-Jan. 2. In case you missed it, read Project88’s newest report, detailing persecution incidents apart from arrests and trials that suggest a turn for the worse in Vietnam’s suppression of dissent, even […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Dec. 13-19. This will be our last newsletter of the year. We will return the week of Jan. 8. “Project88’s report presents evidence about a myriad of government persecution tactics that suggests a turn for the […]
On December 19, Project88 released a new report highlighting key types of human rights violations by the Vietnamese state in 2022 and early 2023 that Project88 believes, when taken together, are indicative of an intensification of repression in Vietnam. These human rights violations include: The government use of arbitrary detention, surveillance, intimidation, and restriction of […]
Greetings from Project88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Dec. 6-12. “As key leaders of Vietnam’s climate change movement remain behind bars and JETP donors fail to condition the disbursement of funding on civil society participation, there is nobody left to hold the government […]