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Nguyen Dang Minh Man is a former political prisoner who just completed her eight-year prison sentence on August 2, 2019. The Catholic activist and photojournalist was arrested in 2011 for recording peaceful protests and sentenced for subversion. Behind bars, she endured difficult conditions, went on hunger strike, and was also placed in solitary confinement. This […]
The 88 Project, March 13, 2017: “My daughter Minh Mẫn was beaten and wounded in prison, and she was held in solitary confinement in a stinky cell for 10 days.” Mrs. Đặng Ngọc Minh, mother of Minh Mẫn, shared in an interview with SBTN. On March 12, 2017, on her Facebook, Mrs. Đặng Ngọc Minh […]
Vào ngày 30/10, ông Đường Văn Thái, một blogger nổi tiếng của Việt Nam, đã bị kết án 12 năm tù vì tội ‘làm, tàng trữ, phát tán hoặc tuyên truyền thông tin, tài liệu, vật phẩm nhằm chống Nhà nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam’. Vụ án chống lại ông Thái […]
Nguyen Van Dung in a 2021 interview with Project88 On May 8, 2024, Nguyen Van Dung’s body washed ashore on the Red River near Chau Son Village. He had gone missing two days after being released from police custody, where he was held and interrogated for three straight days. Nguyen Van Dung, also known as […]
Project88 made the below submission ahead US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. Click here to download the full pdf. *** October 31, 2023 United States Department of State Washington D.C. Re: 2023 US-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue Dear Secretary Blinken, The achievement of closer ties between the U.S. and Vietnam has coincided with […]
Dang Dinh Bach In this letter, Tran Phuong Thao provides an update on her husband Dang Dinh Bach‘s conditions in prison and the ongoing harassment of their family, including forcible seizure of their assets and potentially their home. Bach is currently on a partial hunger strike to protest his unjust imprisonment and has vowed to […]
Below is a translation by The 88 Project of an open letter shared by family members of political prisoners in light of the death of political prisoner Do Cong Duong in detention on August 2, 2022. Duong is the latest in a series of political prisoners to die behind bars under questionable circumstances. Most recently, […]
Dang Dinh Bach is an environmental advocate sentenced to prison for five years for “tax evasion” in Vietnam. Many suspect that the charge brought against him is politically motivated. Dang Dinh Bach delivered a speech at the “Meeting program of Vietnamese environmental ambassadors,” organized by GNH Talk, from April 30 to May 01, 2021. This […]
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 […]
From a human rights point of view, the Year of the Buffalo was indeed an eventful one in Vietnam, with many arrests and trials happening throughout the year, all the way up to the very last day of 2021. To give you a sense of what received the most attention from our readers, here are […]