Story Archive
2019-07-19
Tran Vu Hai, lawyer for RFA contributor Truong Duy Nhat, has been forbidden to defend him following a police raid on his office and accusations of tax evasion.
2019-07-17
Experts suggest Beijing is making a push for resources Hanoi cancelled exploration for in recent years.
2019-07-12
The group had tried to visit Nghe An's Camp No. 6, where at least four prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest conditions in the prison.
2019-07-11
The wife of a prisoner on hunger strike meanwhile asks foreign embassies to send representatives to investigate prison conditions.
2019-07-08
Democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc had been kept around the clock in his cell in sweltering heat, family members say.
2019-07-02
A second lawyer said the police raid did not follow proper legal procedure.
2019-07-01
Authorities told Nguyen Trung Truc’s family he wasn’t following prison rules.
2019-07-01
European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström discusses trade and human rights issues in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
2019-06-28
Truong Huu Loc had brought bread and water to protesters and encouraged others to join the protests, state prosecutors said.
2019-06-25
A California lawmaker meanwhile calls for the release of a US citizen jailed in Vietnam in a case described by one defense lawyer as a sham.
2019-06-24
Michael Nguyen, who had been held without trial for almost a year, must serve his full term before being deported back to the US, sources say.
2019-06-21
Both countries now help each other capture dissidents fleeing persecution, returning them to their home countries, Amnesty International says.
2019-06-20
Laos meanwhile moves up from the bottom to Tier 2 Watch List in recognition of 'key achievements.'
2019-06-20
Even with recent reports of violence between thugs and police, activists say they will continue to work together as they always have.
2019-06-17
Truong Minh Huong was assaulted after leaving a restaurant following a visit to political prisoners made with family members and friends.
2019-06-14
She and other family members say repeated appeals for medical parole have gone unanswered.
2019-06-12
She says Hung has been hospitalized and medicated against his will.
2019-06-11
The April 2016 spill of toxic waste from a steel plant polluted the coastline of four Vietnamese provinces, leaving thousands out of work.
2019-06-10
Nguyen, detained since July 2018, has not been given access to a lawyer or his family.
2019-06-10
The search warrant, issued in January, is now almost five months old, pointing to an unusual delay in gathering evidence in the case.
2019-06-07
Ha Van Thanh has been on the run for more than a year after Vietnamese police began rounding up Formosa Company protesters.
2019-06-06
Nguyen Ngoc Anh found guilty of spreading information to “combat the state.”
2019-06-05
Minister hints at a return to forced rehab centers during a National Assembly hearing.
2019-05-30
US delegates to an annual human rights dialogue with Vietnam point to a rising number of prosecutions over the last two years.
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.
