Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of August 28-September 3. Another activist with ties to the Brotherhood for Democracy, Nguyen Van Tuc, has been arrested under Article 79, the sixth in a matter of weeks. There is news […]
Defend the Defenders, June 19, 2017: The People’s Court in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa will not allow Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Lan to attend the upcoming open trial of her daughter Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, a prominent human rights defender and well-known government critic under penname of Me Nam or Mother Mushroom. The deny […]
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 June 12th to 18th. Blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh aka Me Nam’s (Mother Mushroom) detention has been extended yet again, despite reports of an […]
Radio Free Asia, June 15, 2017: Vietnamese authorities have extended the detention of activist and blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, often known as blogger Mother Mushroom, and kept her incommunicado, her mother told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Thursday. Quynh, who was honored this year with the U.S. State Department’s International Woman of Courage Award for […]
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 June 5th to 11th. This week, Vietnam attended the 35th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, despite a continued crackdown on activists and […]
Defend the Defenders, June 9, 2017: In the morning of June 8, a group of ten thugs came to the private residence of former political prisoner Le Quoc Quan in Hanoi, threatening him and his family if he continues his activities which aim for promoting human rights and multi-party democracy in the Southeast Asian nation. Lawyer […]
The 88 Project, June 8, 2017: Eight months after blogger and human rights defender Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh was arrested, the investigation period seems to have concluded and a trial should take place soon. Yesterday, lawyer Nguyễn Khả Thành’s office received a hand-written letter by Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, dated June 2, 2017, in which […]
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 May 29 to June 4, 2017. We are thinking of Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh and her family as June 2 was supposed to be the end of her detention, […]
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 May 22 to 28, 2017. We are thinking of prisoner of conscience Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, as May 24 marked eight years since he […]
RFA, May 26, 2017: Vietnam’s Appeals Court on Friday upheld the jail sentences of a former army officer and soldier for attempting to form a pro-democracy organization that authorities say was planning a coup to overthrow the one-party communist government, according to an attorney for one of the defendants. Retired Lt. Colonel Tran Anh Kim […]