While Civil Rights Defenders gears up for its first participation at Stockholm Pride Parade on 2 August, our partners, Viet Pride, are also preparing for the third ever LGBT pride celebration in Vietn...
Le Quoc Quan, a human rights lawyer well known for his oppositional blog posts, remains in prison after a court in Hanoi upheld a previous sentence against him on 18 February. There was hope that Viet...
In Vietnam, an amended constitution enters into force on 1 January 2014. This marks the end of a constitutional review process that opened up for unprecedented discussions and criticism of issues prev...
On 29 October, a court in Vietnam handed down a 15 month suspended prison sentence to Dinh Nhat Uy, a blogger and activist, effectively releasing him from prison into house arrest. However, the indict...
As Vietnam is seeking a seat in the UN Human Rights Council for 2014-2016, the authorities are tightening the restrictions of the right to freedom of expression on the Internet through new regulations...
Under a banner of “Strive with pride”, the second Pride festival ever in Vietnam was successfully held in Hanoi, 2-4 August. The festival was organised by a network of members of the LGTB community an...
A prominent imprisoned Vietnamese blogger, Nguyen Van Hai, more known under his pen name Dieu Cay, is on hunger strike since four weeks. Hai who is serving a 12 years prison term for his peaceful acti...
Three Vietnamese bloggers were convicted to long prison sentences on Monday, 24 September, because of their peaceful activism. The most renowned, Nguyen Van Hai, got 12 years in prison. His crime: he ...
Blogger Nguyen Van Hai (pen name Dieu Cay) has drawn the ire of the Vietnamese government with his human rights promotion and criticism of the authorities. They have kept him behind bars since 2008, a...
Dieu Cay was Vietnam’s most influential bloggers when he was arrested in April 2008. His voice for democracy in Vietnam and against widespread corruption was silenced. Today, nobody knows where he is ...
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