Vietnam

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 October 2002 CPJ press release: VIETNAM: Internet essayist’s trial imminent New York, October 22, 2002-The trial of Internet essayist Le Chi Quang, 32, is scheduled for October 28 in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi. He is being tried on national security charges, including distribution of “reactionary and subversive documents,” said […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Vietnam: New Threats to Free Expression (New York, October 9, 2002) – A new round of arrests and harassment of prominent dissidents in Vietnam threatens the right of free expression, Human Rights Watch said today. Vietnam should cease the persecution of government critics and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 26 September 2002 letter to President Tran Duc Luong, CPJ condemned the detention of writer Nguyen Vu Binh. At about 8 p.m. (local time) on 25 September, security officials searched Binh’s home in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, before arresting him, said CPJ sources. It is not known where Binh is being held. […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 14 August 2002 CPJ press release: VIETNAM: Internet essayist to be tried on national security charges August 14, 2002, New York-Authorities in Vietnam will soon bring Internet essayist Le Chi Quang, 32, to trial on national security charges, according to CPJ sources. Quang has been in prison since February […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 25 July 2002, RSF called on the Vietnamese government to release cyberdissident Pham Hong Son, who has been detained at a secret location for the past four months after posting information about democracy on the Internet. “He has done nothing more than peacefully express his attachment to democratic values,” noted RSF Secretary-General […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 July 2002 CPJ press release: VIETNAM: Writer held incommunicado New York, July 22, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the detention of writer Nguyen Vu Binh, who is currently being held incommunicado. At around 9 a.m. on July 20, police officers picked up Binh from his home […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 2 July 2002 CPJ letter to Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong: July 2, 2002 Committee to Protect Journalists 330 Seventh Avenue, 12th floor New York, NY 10001 His Excellency Tran Duc Luong President, Socialist Republic of Vietnam C/o Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hanoi, Vietnam Via facsimile: 011-84-4-823-1872 Your Excellency: […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF protested the Communist Party’s directive forbidding Vietnamese citizens from having access to foreign television programmes via satellite and called on the government to drop the measure. “Last week, the regime stressed it would keep the local media under tight control and now it forbids the Vietnamese people from hearing any criticism from […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the Vietnamese minister for public security, Lieutenant General Le Minh Huong, RSF called for the release of Vietnamese dissident Son Hong Pham. Police arrested him for writing, translating and publishing texts on the Internet that promote democracy. “This new arrest of a web dissident, the third in just over […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 March 2002 CPJ letter to President Tran Duc Luong: March 13, 2002 His Excellency Tran Duc Luong President, Socialist Republic of Vietnam c/o Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hanoi, Vietnam Via facsimile: 011-84-4-823-1872 Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned that writer Tran Khue has […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Vietnam’s minister of public security, Lieutenant General Le Minh Huong, RSF protested the rounding up of journalist and dissident Bui Minh Quoc and his placement under house arrest. RSF considers the measure to be equivalent to imprisonment since it deprives the dissident of his freedom and right to express […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 16 January 2002 letter to President Tran Duc Luong, CPJ expressed deep concern about a recent government decree instructing police to confiscate and destroy publications that do not have official approval. An announcement of the decree, signed by Vice Minister of Culture and Information Nguyen Khac Hai, appeared in newspapers in […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 3 December 2001 Human Rights Watch statement: VIETNAM: RIGHTS PROTECTIONS SHOULD BE ON DONORS’ AGENDA (New York, December 3, 2001) – Human Rights Watch today urged Vietnam’s international donors to press for significant progress in human rights and rule of law when they meet in Hanoi on December 7 […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Vietnam: Donors Should Protest Renewed Harassment of Dissidents (New York, September 7, 2001) — The Vietnamese government has launched one of its most intense crackdowns in recent years against its critics, Human Rights Watch charged today. This past week, some fifteen dissidents, many of […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 23 August 2001 letter to Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong, CPJ expressed its concern about the harassment of Lt. Gen. Tran Do and the confiscation of his memoirs. The organisation asked the president to encourage Vietnamese officials to return Tran’s manuscript immediately. Tran, a former general in the Vietnam People’s Army, […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a 9 March 2001 letter to Lt. General Le Minh Huong, minister of public security, RSF called for the end of the house arrest of Ha Sy Phu, a leading force behind the banned magazine “Langbian”. RSF believes that this measure deprives the dissident of his freedom and right to express himself. […]