The 88 Project, April 20, 2017: It has been six months since blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh – Mẹ Nấm was arrested. She has been held incommunicado at Sông Lô detention center in Khánh Hòa province. Her family and lawyers have not been able to see her. Her mother, Mrs. Nguyễn Tuyết Lan, has been […]
Greetings 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 April 10 to 16. The pre-trial detention time limit for lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài and Ms. Lê Thu Hà has come to an end but there’s still no news […]
Defend the Defenders, April 16, 2017: Vietnam’s authorities have yet planned to bring prominent human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai to court after 16 months of detention. Mr. Dai and his assistance Ms. Le Thu Ha were arrested on December 16, 2016 on charges of “conducting anti-state propaganda” under Article 88 of the country’s Penal […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news, analysis, and action items regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 3 to 9. So much has been going on. April 6 marked the first anniversary of the environmental disaster in central Vietnam, […]
Vietnam Human Rights Defenders, April 7, 2017: Vietnam’s authorities on Apr 6 announced the arrest of blogger Nguyen Van Hoa, a blogger who has covered news related to the illegal discharge of toxic industrial waste of the Taiwanese Formosa steel plant in the central province of Ha Tinh. Hoa, who was arrested on Jan 11, […]
The 88 Project, April 5, 2017: Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức’s family visited him in Prison No. 6, Nghệ An province on April 1, 2017. They were allowed to see him for 60 minutes in a special room through a thick glass screen. They couldn’t hear each other directly and had to communicate through a speaker […]
Greetings 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 March 27 to April 2. Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh received the 2017 International Women of Courage Award – the only recipient from this year who […]
The 88 Project, March 30, 2017: The family of blogger Phan Kim Khánh has expressed their worries over Khánh’s arrest through activists who came to visit them. Speaking from their poor home in Phú Thọ, Khánh’s mother said the family cannot afford to pay for defense counsel for Khánh. And police officers have repeatedly come […]
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 March 20-26: two more arrests under Article 88; the continued struggle of the victims of the Formosa environmental disaster; public outcry about recent pedophilia […]
The 88 Project, March 22, 2017: Blogger Phan Kim Khánh (Phú Thọ province) was arrested on March 21 and blogger Bùi Hiếu Võ (Hồ Chí Minh City), a few days earlier, on March 17. Both were charged under Art. 88 for “propaganda against the Socialist state.” State-owned media, citing the Ministry of Public Security, has confirmed […]