Story Archive
2019-05-29
Meanwhile, Vietnamese police arrest a Catholic schoolteacher on unknown charges, taking him into custody while he was eating breakfast with his son.
2019-05-24
The rights group calls for his immediate and unconditional release, calling him a prisoner of conscience who should never have been arrested.
2019-05-23
Hoa, who had blogged and produced videos for RFA, was beaten and choked by prison guards and placed in solitary confinement earlier in May.
2019-05-22
While rallying against polluting companies and SEZ plans, protesters nabbed on charges of disrupting public order and destruction of state property.
2019-05-22
The public is wary that Hanoi will bend to Beijing’s influence if it accepts too many loans.
2019-05-15
Police keep them under watch, barricade them in their homes, in the run-up to an annual human rights dialogue, sources say.
2019-05-14
Former prisoners and other activists are meanwhile blocked from meeting with members of a US human rights delegation.
2019-05-10
Democracy advocate Le Anh Hung is sent back for continued observation for what authorities call his 'delusions.'
2019-05-10
Human rights groups express concern for the safety of three anti-monarchy activists.
2019-05-09
Huynh Duc Thanh Binh, taken into custody along with US citizen Michael Nguyen, has been charged with working to subvert state authority.
2019-05-06
Nguyen Huu Vinh, better known as Anh Ba Sam, had been sentenced for 'abusing democratice freedoms' by posting articles criticizing the government.
2019-05-04
Activist Bach Hong Quyen, safe in Canada, describes how he escaped being spirited back to Vietnam during a precarious stay in Thailand.
2019-05-02
Bach Hong Quyen had feared being sent back to Vietnam after helping a dissident blogger later abducted by Vietnamese police.
2019-04-29
Meanwhile, Myanmar and China should remain on the State Department's blacklist, the group says.
2019-04-29
Jakarta summons Hanoi emissary following weekend confrontation at sea.
2019-04-26
Le Anh Hung, a member of the Brotherhood for Democracy, had been put under observation for 'delusions,' his lawyer says.
2019-04-23
Hanoi prison officer says authorities are under official order to deny Truong Duy Nhat access to supplies, but decline to show paperwork.
2019-04-16
Legal expert and entrepreneur Nguyen Bac Truyen is serving 11 years in jail.
2019-04-12
But leaked documents show the tribunal awarded Trinh Vinh Binh nearly U.S. $40 million in damages.
2019-04-10
In Loc Hung schools, students are forced to learn that demolishing their homes was necessary.
2019-04-09
Former prosecutor’s attack sparks public outcry after video goes viral.
2019-04-04
Former VOA contributor had refused to be treated like a prisoner while detained.
2019-04-02
Authorities also deny prisoner’s right to correspond with family.
2019-04-01
Transfer increases Vietnam’s capabilities along its coast and in the South China Sea
2019-03-29
Committee also concerned about Hanoi’s excessive use of the death penalty
2019-03-29
Veteran rights activist Nguyen Quang Hong Nhan had wanted to seek asylum in Canada.
2019-03-26
Hao wrote his sister saying he ended the hunger strike on March 6, a day after a prison visit by his family.
2019-03-22
Truong Duy Nhat's arrest in Hanoi after he disappeared in Bangkok amid suspicions he was abducted by Vietnamese agents was never reported to his family.
2019-03-21
Bach Hong Quyen has UN refugee status which should protect him from arrest and deportation, but now lives in hiding and says he fears for his family's safety.
2019-03-20
Rights activists had suspected that Truong Duy Nhat was detained by Thai authorities and handed to Vietnamese agents on Jan. 26 after he had fled to Thailand to seek political asylum with a U.N. refugee agency.
