Project88 and Front Line Defenders made a joint UPR submission ahead of Vietnam’s scheduled spring 2024 review. “Not only have arrests and harassment of human rights defenders continued unabated since Vietnam’s last UPR,” said Project88 Co-Director Kaylee Uland, “but the government has also taken up new strategies to clamp down on dissent, like imprisoning NGO […]
Greetings from Project 88. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Oct. 10-16. Project 88’s Ben Swanton spoke with The Guardian about Vietnam’s targeting of the very climate activists that helped the country negotiate international environmental support in the first place. Meanwhile, Vietnam […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of October 3-9. Nguyen Viet Dung is a tough but learned man with firm democratic convictions. He was incarcerated twice for his political activities, including flying the flag of the former South Vietnam and […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of Sept. 26-Oct. 2. “This conviction is a total fraud, nobody should be fooled by it.” -Ben Swanton, Co-Director of Project 88 on the conviction of Hoang Thi Minh Hong for tax evasion *** The conviction […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of September 19-25. The U.S. president had no sooner left Hanoi than Vietnam resumed arresting activists and executing its citizens. Two recently released democracy activists share harrowing accounts of physical abuse in prison. Hoang […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of September 12-18. Ngo Thi To Nhien, executive director of Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET), has been detained. Hoang Thi Ming Hong, former director of the Center of Hands-on Action and Networking […]
Below is an update from the family of Tran Huynh Duy Thuc after their visit with Thuc following his allegation that he was attacked in his cell by knife-wielding men dressed in prisoner uniforms. Project 88 has completed a translation of the family visit summary; the original Vietnamese version is posted below the translation. Tran […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of September 5-11. The big news this week is the visit by President Joe Biden to Hanoi and the upgrade of the relationship between the United States and Vietnam to the highest level. […]
Dang Dinh Bach, lawyer and environmental activist, and one of the Vietnam Five arrested on spurious charges of “tax evasion” In a Sept. 8 letter led by the Vietnam Caucus, five members of US Congress called on President Joe Biden to use his visit to Vietnam to address human rights abuses “and at a minimum, […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of August 29-September 4. Two political prisoners say they were threatened by knife-wielding men in their cells. An asylum seeker kidnapped in Bangkok remains detained incommunicado. Another prisoner is staging a hunger […]