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 15 to 21. Environmental activist Hoàng Đức Bình and Hòa Hảo Buddhist follower Vương Văn Thả were arrested this week. Dissident musician Trần Vũ Anh Bình was released, […]
The 88 Project, May 18, 2017: May 21, 2017 marks two months since blogger Phan Kim Khánh’s arrest under Art. 88 of the Vietnamese Criminal Code. Khánh’s family’s effort to hire defense lawyers for him has been thwarted. They had reached out to lawyer Hà Huy Sơn, who agreed to defend Khánh. On April 10, […]
Defend the Defenders, May 15, 2017: On May 15, authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An kidnapped activist Hoang Duc Binh (or Hoang Binh), a member of the independent Viet Labor Movement and well-known blogger who has covered news on the Formosa-causing environmental disaster in the central coastal region. In the morning of Monday, Binh […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We are bringing to you news and analysis regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 8 to 14. We have updates on female activists Trần Thị Nga and Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh who both are being held in pre-trial detention. There are reports on […]
RFA May 11, 2017: A human rights defender held in detention for online activism is in poor health and has been refused visits from her family, according to her lawyer, who met with her Thursday for the first time since she was arrested nearly four months ago. Tran Thi Nga, 40, was arrested on Jan. 21 […]
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 1 to 7. A lot was going on this week. POC Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy was released upon the completion of her three-year […]
The 88 Project: On May 2, Lê Mỹ Hạnh, a female environmental activist from Hanoi, and her friends were beaten by a group of government loyalists in Ho Chi Minh city when she was visiting the city and staying at her friends’ private residence. In a video shared on social media after the incident, Lê Mỹ […]
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 April 24 to 30. We are thinking of bloggers Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh and Trần Thị Nga as April 28 marked Quỳnh’s 200th day […]
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 April 17 to 23. We have an update on the situation of blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, who has been held incommunicado for six […]
The 88 Project, April 21, 2017: As we reported in the newsletter last week, the violent clash between local farmers and authorities in Hoành village, Đồng Tâm commune, Mỹ Đức district, Hà Nội, continued well into the week. It has received widespread coverage in both state-owned newspapers (e.g. VnExpress English) and international media (Foreign […]