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Officials: Vietnam not blocking FacebookDate:21/11/2009 HANOI, Vietnam, Nov...
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Saturday, 21 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam: ARTICLE 19 Assists with Drafting Freedom of Information LawDate:11/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 has been working with the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice, which is drafting a right to information law, to help ensure that the draft is as consistent as possible with international standards and best national practice...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam: ARTICLE 19 Condemns Convictions of Pro-Democracy ActivistsDate:21/01/2010 ARTICLE 19 condemns the conviction today of four Vietnamese pro-democracy activists, including leading human rights lawyer, Le Cong Dinh...
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Thursday, 21 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
VIETNAM: Graft-busting reporter jailed for two yearsDate:16/10/2008 Nguyen Viet Chien, a reporter for the Vietnamese daily newspaper Thanh Nien who broke major stories on high-level government corruption in 2006, was sentenced today to two years in prison after being found guilty of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state, according to news reports...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam: Newspaper dismisses reporter over blog entry critical of Soviet UnionDate:01/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns reporter Huy Duc’s dismissal by the governmental daily Sai Gon Tiep Thi on 25 August for posting criticism of the Cold War-era Soviet Union on his personal blog...
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Tuesday, 1 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam: Sharp Backsliding on Religious FreedomDate:18/10/2009 The violent forced expulsion of more than 300 followers of the world-renowned Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh from Bat Nha monastery in late September highlights the Vietnamese government's suppression of religious freedom, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Sunday, 18 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam: Vietnam cracks down on bloggers and online journalistsDate:04/09/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the recent harassment and arrests of online journalists and political bloggers in Vietnam...
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Friday, 4 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam Jails 4 Activists for Subversion Date:20/01/2010 Four pro-democracy campaigners in Vietnam were convicted in a high-profile trial Wednesday of trying to overthrow the state, the latest targets of a campaign against dissent that has led to dozens of arrests in recent months...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam jails democracy activists for subversion Date:01/02/2010 A court in Vietnam has convicted four activists, including prominent human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh, of trying to overthrow the Communist government...
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Monday, 1 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam’s Crackdown on Bloggers Prompts Appeal From U.S. LawmakersDate:03/04/2009 Five months after Internet giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo pledged to uphold privacy and freedom of expression when operating in repressive environments, a group of U...
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Friday, 3 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam’s Crackdown on Bloggers Prompts Appeal From U.S. LawmakersDate:06/04/2009 Five months after Internet giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo pledged to uphold privacy and freedom of expression when operating in repressive environments, a group of U...
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Monday, 6 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnamese Americans protest art exhibit in Santa AnaDate:19/01/2009 Hundreds of Vietnamese Americans demonstrated Saturday outside a provocative art exhibit in Santa Ana that had featured Communist symbols that protesters claimed mocked their painful experiences as political refugees...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnamese Democracy Activists On Trial For PatriotismDate:07/10/2009 Nine democracy activists will be tried in Vietnam this week for “propaganda against the socialist state...
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Wednesday, 7 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnamese media advocate arrested for sedition, spreading propaganda against government Date:15/06/2009 Vietnamese lawyer and media advocate Le Cong Dinh was arrested by the police in his home in Ho Chi Minh City on 13 June 2009, SEAPA sources said...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnamese rights lawyer jailed over call for democracyDate:05/04/2011 A dissident lawyer and son of a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader has been sentenced to seven years in prison and a further three years' house arrest for calling for an end to Vietnam's government and its one-party system...
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Tuesday, 5 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Case study - trial observation training (Vietnamese)Date:09/10/2008 This case study was used in the Regional Trial Observation Training held in Bangkok in July 2008 with the support of the Open Society Institute...
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Thursday, 9 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
VIETNAM: Viet TanDate:07/04/2009 Viet Tan is an organization that was founded in 1982 and has a network of members inside Vietnam and around the world...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam's Blogger Movement: A virtual civil society in the midst of government repressionDate:09/04/2009 A report from the organisation…
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Thursday, 9 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
VietnamDate:24/10/2008 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Vietnam...
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Friday, 24 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Vietnam: Ensure Fair Hearing for Legal Scholar Date: 01/08/2011 "(Bangkok) – The outcome of the August 2, 2011 Appeals Court hearing on legal scholar Cu Huy Ha Vu’s conviction on national security charges will have important repercussions...
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Monday, 1 August 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Vietnam: Amnesty for two imprisoned writers but unjust sentences for many moreDate: 5 October 2011 "In Vietnam's annual tradition of giving amnesty to prisoners in recognition of independence day, the government passed over many of those most
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
9th World day against death penaltyDate: 10 October 2011 "Vietnam’s communist leaders refuse to abolish the death penalty, despite strong international pressure.
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Monday, 10 October 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Vietnam: Voices of Conscience These Vietnamese men and women come from a cross section of backgrounds, professions and political views. They share a common struggle for freedom and democracy. For as true patriots, human rights defenders and courageous, peaceful social activists, they are Vietnam’s Voices of Conscience.
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Monday, 23 January 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 23 January 2012