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Featured Image: Nguyen Trung Ton. Artwork by Dinh Truong Chinh for The 88 Project 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 July 15-21. Three June 2018 protesters’ appeals of their sentences were denied this week. And next week, […]
Tran Hoang Phuc is a law student from Ho Chi Minh City. He is a bright, award-winning student but was prevented from graduating from law school in 2016 due to his activism. Tran Hoang Phuc was kidnapped by police in Hanoi from his apartment, on June 29, 2017. Phuc, 23 at the time, was officially charged on July […]
Truong Thi Ha was a law student when she participated in the June 2018 protests – first on June 10 during the nation-wide protests against the draft laws on Cybersecurity and Special Economic Zone, and then on June 17, on which day Ha and many other activists became victims of a concerted and violent effort […]
Posted by Khiêm Nhu Thị Nguyễn on Sunday, June 10, 2018 Vietnamese protesters on June 10, 2018. Source: Nguyen Thi Khiem Nhu Facebook The scenes of the June 2018 national protests were troubling: authorities storming into areas where protesters gathered, rounding up massive groups of people on the streets, and allegedly even inciting violence […]
Featured Image: Political prisoner Huynh Thuc Vy 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 May 27-June 2. Read about Doan Dinh Nam’s family’s attempts to have his sentence canceled as he battles kidney disease, as well as the latest update […]
On May 24, 2019, 44 activists in Vietnam jointly issued a “Collective Declaration by Those Whose Freedom of Movement Has Been Violated” (hereinafter Declaration) in which they denounce the restriction of their movement by people believed to be working for the government. According to the Declaration, this violation of the basic right to freedom of […]
Nghệ An, May 24, 2018 To: – The governments of all democratic countries in the world – The European Union – All international Human Rights Organizations – Environmental Protection organizations Dear all, My son Hoàng Đức Bình was born on February 10, 1983. In 2016, the Formosa plant dumped untold amounts of toxic waste into […]
Featured Image: Dang Ngoc Tan and Pham Thanh at trial. Source: Nhan Dan 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 May 20-26. Several prisoners are on hunger strike protesting the treatment of imprisoned journalist Nguyen Van Hoa, which Amnesty International […]
Vietnam annually celebrates April 30 as the Reunification Day and Liberation of Saigon, a historical event that marked the end of the prolonged war which the Communist Party of Vietnam calls the “Resistance War Against America.” For the North under the Communist Party, or the South under the Ngo Dinh Diem regime, this war caused […]
Greetings from The 88 Project! Before presenting our regular news summary, we would like to make a special announcement. After months of hard work, we are excited to release our new website. The new website features additional tools and more information on activists at risk and political prisoners in Vietnam: An expanded Database of Persecuted Activists in Vietnam; an interactive Map […]