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Greetings from The 88 Project. Vietnam continues its cruel practice of incarcerating political prisoners far from home to make life miserable for their loved ones. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will visit Vietnam, whose candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council goes to a vote on October 11. There have been reports that Vietnamese authorities […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of August 29-September 4. A political prisoner defiantly rebuked the Party at his appeal trial. An imprisoned former NGO director asks the international community for help exonerating him. More international voices call for the […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. Riot police raided ethnic communities in the middle of the night and destroyed religious centers in northwest Vietnam. Three former NGO leaders had their appeal hearings on tax evasion charges, two of whom received a slight reduction in their sentences. An ethnic Protestant leader imprisoned for contacting the UN and award-winning activist […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. We bring you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of June 13-19. An anti-coal environmentalist was convicted of “tax evasion” and sent to prison. The 81-year-old mother of political prisoner Pham Doan Trang was harassed by airport police. Some prisoners are allowed to see […]
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 23-29. A sixth person was arrested in connection with the Bong Lai Zen Temple case. A jailed 72-year-old independent journalist is having serious health issues. A recently freed and exiled political prisoner […]
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 16-22. It was a busy week post US-ASEAN summit. A political prisoner was finally allowed to see his children after more than a year. There are also updates on the conditions of […]
Greetings from The 88 Project. A Facebooker was sentenced to eight years in prison for “anti-state propaganda.” An activist was transferred to a mental hospital without her family’s knowledge. A political prisoner’s wife was allowed to see her husband for the first time in 10 months, another in over a year. A writer is harassed for winning […]
On May 9, 2022 The 88 Project released its annual report on the situation of activists and political prisoners in Vietnam. The report is informed by the organization’s database – the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind – and details the latest chapter of the Vietnamese government’s crackdown on political dissent. Vietnam’s one-party state stepped […]
Political prisoner Le Trong Hung (pictured above), sentenced on New Year’s Eve 2021 to five years in prison, was forced to attend an appeal trial without his consent and with no lawyers present. Hung was an independent journalist for four years at Chen Hung Viet Nam TV (CHTV), a social media TV channel, where he […]
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 11-17. A former prison official’s appeal of his prison sentence was denied. A state media journalist and a businessman were sentenced to re-education. A Facebooker was arrested for writing about the arrests of […]