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 […]
Project 88 has translated the following article: Opinion: How Biden can court Vietnam — and help those stuck behind bars, Washington Post Editorial Board, Aug. 30, 2023 Click this link to read the full translation: Quan điểm_ Ông Biden phải làm sao để xiêu lòng Việt Nam — mà vẫn giúp được những người […]
Dang Dinh Bach Tran Phuong Thao reported to Project 88 that her husband Dang Dinh Bach called her on August 31 and shared a startling allegation. For most of August, Bach had been refusing to eat prison food, eating instead only what his family could send him. He made this decision as a way to […]
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 22-28. President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam on September 10 in an effort to upgrade the U.S.-Vietnam partnership. There were three appeal trials this week, and the results will surprise […]
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 15-21. We have updates on the conditions of several high-profile prisoners. Two prisoners face appeal trials next week. A comedian was arrested for spreading “anti-state propaganda.” Vietnam will pursue prosecution of […]