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Vietnam’s environmental record is a cause for concern and so too is its record on free speech and human rights. This makes life difficult for environmental activists who try to hold the government to account, many of whom have been harassed or arrested by the regime. Like in many developing countries, rapid economic growth in […]
On January 20, 2021 Dinh Thi Thu Thuy became the latest female activist to be handed a prison sentence in Vietnam. Thuy, an aquaculture engineer and environmentalist from the Mekong Delta, had criticized a range of government policies on Facebook and was arrested in April last year. For just five posts which had received […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of October 5-11. On October 6, the Ministry of Public Security, in collaboration with Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi police, arrested dissident writer Pham Doan Trang— a few hours after the United States and […]
Six months into 2020, the intensive crackdown against activists and journalists carried out by the Vietnamese government continues. Its latest victim includes arguably the last independent journalist organization in the country. On May 23, 2020, Nguyen Tuong Thuy was arrested and his apartment searched by the Public Security Department of Hanoi. Thuy, a 70-year-old military […]
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: Chung Hoang Chuong, one of the two people already arrested in 2020. Source: Defend the Defenders 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 January 6-12. After three years in prison, Tran Thi Nga was released early and immediately […]
On January 10, 2020, after spending three years in prison under charges of “propaganda against the socialist state,” Tran Thi Nga was released and sent directly to the United States. Nga and her family safely reached Atlanta, Georgia, at 7:00 pm local time on January 10. She is the fourth political prisoner in the past […]
Featured Image: Used in the Amnesty International Report: ASA 41/007/2013 – Silenced Voices. Prisoners of Conscience in Viet Nam May 24 marks 10 years since Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was arrested in Vietnam. In January 2010, the bright engineer and entrepreneur was sentenced to an astounding 16 years in prison for his political, economic, and […]
Featured Image: Tran Thi Xuan in court on April 12, 2018. Source: VietnamNet The 88 Project, December 23, 2018: This year was another brutal one for protesters, religious communities, journalists, bloggers, and many other activists in Vietnam. 2018 saw an increase over 2017 in the number of activists arrested and tried, as well as the […]
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 December 10-16. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc’s family and a lawyer came to visit him after allegations of a poisoning against him in prison. A British Member of the European Parliament also sent […]