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Featured Image: Trinh Ba Tu’s arrest, Source On just a single day this month, the Vietnamese authorities arrested six people in the continuation of a crackdown on dissent that has escalated in recent months. At least eleven people have been arrested for their activism activities in total in June 2020. The majority of those arrested […]
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 June 15-21. Amidst a crackdown on online expression and free press in recent weeks, police in Ho Chi Minh City this week arrested two men for their affiliation with a Facebook discussion group, […]
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 June 8-14. The Vietnamese government continued targeting the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam after the arrest of key leaders in recent months, with the arrest of Le Huu Minh Tuan this week. Authorities […]
The 88 Project had the opportunity to interview former political prisoner Tran Thi Nga about her experience in prison and conditions in prison for women and children. Tran Thi Nga was released from prison in January and sent immediately into exile in the United States. She was about three years into a nine-year prison sentence […]
Featured Image: Pham Chi Thanh, Source: his blog via Radio Free Asia Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 18-24. The Ministry of Public Security this week arrested dissident writer Pham Chi Thanh under Article 117 for propaganda against the […]
Featured Image: Ho Duy Hai with his sister prior to his arrest, Source: Hai’s family via The Vietnamese Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of May 4-10. This week a court in Hanoi sentenced two BOT toll booth activists, […]
Featured Image: Tran Duc Thach after arrest (with a visible facial injury), Source: Giao Thong newspaper Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 20-26. The People’s Court of Nghe Anh Province denied music teacher Nguyen Nang Tinh’s appeal […]
Featured Image: Activists at Taiwan court to demonstrate Formosa pollution case, Source: focustaiwan.tw Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of April 13-19. Music teacher Nguyen Nang Tinh will face his appeal trial on April 20; he was sentenced to […]
Featured Image: Nguyen Van Dai and Nguyen Bac Truyen (R) at trial on April 5, 2018, Source: AFP via Radio Free Asia 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 March 30-April 5. Political prisoner Luu Van Vinh has been […]
Featured Image: Phan Van Thu (left) and his followers in the closed trial in 2013. Source. Phan Van Thu is an activist currently serving life in prison for being the leader of the An Dan Dai Dao (ADDD) sect of Buddhism. His family sent the The 88 Project an update on March 17, 2020 about […]