To: Mr. Nguyễn Sinh Hùng, Chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mr. Trương Tấn Sang, President Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister Gen. Trần Đại Quang, Minister of Public Security Nguyễn Phú Trọng, General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party Dear Gentlemen: We, who have signed this letter below, are a […]
The 88 Project, June 13, 2013: Another famous blogger, Pham Viet Dao, was arrested today (Thursday local time). Pham Viet Dao is a writer and translator. He used to work for the Ministry of Culture, and is member of the Vietnam’s Writers Association. He has been publicly outspoken about the need for democratization in Vietnam. Prior […]
Dự án 88, 10/06/13 – Tiến sĩ Cù Huy Hà Vũ bước vào tuần tuyệt thực thứ 3. Xin lên tiếng để Nhà nước Việt Nam phải đáp ứng những nguyện vọng của ông. Xin gửi thông điệp với nội dung như sau: “Tôi yêu cầu nhà nước Việt Nam – thảo luận với Tiến […]
© The 88 Project (Nội dung tiếng Việt ở dưới) Tran Quoc Hien is an attorney and union rights activist. He is member of Blog 8406 and spokesperson of the United Workers and Farmers Association. After a failed attempt to organize a protest for farmers, victims of in injustice in 2006, he was arrested […]
© 2013 The 88 Project – Free Expression Interview Series (Bản tiếng Việt ở dưới) Pham Thanh Nghien – Life in Detention of Female Prisoners: Female prisoners: hygiene conditions Only when I myself was imprisoned did I really see how different it was from what I’d imagined. I didn’t have to—or didn’t have the opportunity […]
Human Rights picnic, Follow up report: Several bloggers in Saigon were arrested, some violently beaten by public security forces in Saigon, including Vu Sy Hoang, Vu Quoc Anh, Nguyen Hoang Vi and her family. Blogger Hanh Nhan (Vu Sy Hoang) was arrested at 9:30 am (May 5th), got questioned until 9 pm, when he was […]
Sunday May 5th, 2013: Young Vietnamese activists organized for the first time Human Rights picnics to share documents on and discuss about human rights. The day before, before May 5th, Trinh Kim Kim and Paolo Thanh Nguyen led a group to discuss the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in front of their house to […]
© The 88 Project – Free Expression Interview Series Pham Thanh Nghien – “My trial started on 29 January 2011. They said the trial was public. But I can confirm that in reality it was absolutely unjust, absurd. And I was after all tried behind closed doors. Even my mother, the very person giving birth to me, wasn’t […]
Pham Thanh Nghien – Over the period of about four months, I was detained in a special jail cell. I share the jail cell with a female prisoner, and we both estimated that its surface was less than 6m2. The only thing that helped us to forget about being in a box were six air […]
© 2013 The 88 Project – Free Expression Interview Series Frontlinedefenders – “Human rights defender Ms Pham Thanh Nghien has been held in prison since she was arrested on 18 September 2008 for attempting to stage a peaceful protest. Her family has recently learned that her trial is expected to take place on 17 December 2009 in […]