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Dang Thi Kim Lieng (above, black shirt) self-immolated on July 30, 2012. Photo source: BBC (not used in original article) Asia Sentinel, July 29, 2017: “On July 30, 2012, the mother of political prisoner Ta Phong Tan burned herself to death at a government building in despair over her daughter’s imprisonment. This is the fifth anniversary […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 17 to 23. This week marked Mother Mushroom’s first birthday in prison since her arrest and sentencing to ten years in prison on June 29, while […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 10 to 16. News broke that land and labor rights advocate Tran Thi Nga, who was arrested in January 2017, will face trial on July 25 and […]
Above: Tran Hoang Phuc, Source: Defend the Defenders Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee from The 88 Project! We are bringing you news, analysis, and actions regarding human rights and civil society in Vietnam during the week of July 3 to 9. Another activist, Tran Hoang Phuc, 23, has been arrested under Article 88 for “propaganda against the […]
Greetings from Huong, Ella, and Kaylee 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 26 to July 2. News of blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh aka Me Nam (Mother Mushroom) has dominated local and international headlines and social media this week as […]
After being arrested in October 2016, blogger and environmental activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, or Mother Mushroom, a.k.a. Me Nam, 38, was sentenced on June 29 to ten years in prison under Article 88 of Vietnam’s Penal Code for her online postings and interviews. The trial was brief, secretive and guarded, continuing a pattern of […]
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 19 to 25. Blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh’s trial is scheduled for next week on June 29, admist appeals from international organizations to […]
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 […]