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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Vietnam</title>
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		<title>Religious freedom in Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is holding a hearing into religious freedom in Vietnam:
The overall human rights and religious freedom situation continues to deteriorate under the rule of the current government of Vietnam.  Despite its ascension to the World Trade Organization in 2007, which many believed would help improve Vietnam’s poor rights record, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlighting Vietnam&#8217;s Solzhenitsyns and Havels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam should liberalize its political system and permit freedom of expression, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has told Hanoi’s communist authorities, highlighting concerns about the regime’s crackdown on democracy activists and Internet access.
“Vietnam, with its extraordinary dynamic population, is on the path to becoming a great nation with an unlimited potential. And that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veteran dissident&#8217;s smuggled message demands democracy for Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/veteran-dissidents-smuggled-message-demands-democracy-for-vietnam.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 18:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thich Quang Do, Vietnam’s veteran advocate for democracy and human rights, has been a prisoner of conscience for over 28 years, the Oslo Freedom Forum notes. The forum this week presented a recently-filmed interview with him at a congressional ceremony on Capitol Hill.
Thich Quang Do’s testimony, filmed exclusively for the 2010 forum, is available on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam confirms sentence of leading dissident</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/vietnam-confirms-sentence-of-leading-dissident.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Demdigest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An appeals court today upheld a prison sentence for Vietnam’s leading human rights lawyer as well as an “unusually harsh” sentence for an associate charged with promoting democracy.
The United States Congress may have designated May 11 as Vietnam Human Rights Day but that clearly cuts little ice with the country’s communist authorities.
U.S.-trained human rights attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic advantage obscures &#8217;significant setbacks&#8217; and autocratic legitimacy</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/democratic-advantage-obscures-significant-setbacks-and-autocratic-legitimacy.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=4943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The apparently stable advantage of democracy over autocracy disguises worrying erosion in the quality of democracy, a new analysis suggests.
Democracy has not lost its normative appeal, but even established democracies have experienced “significant setbacks” in the freedoms of assembly, association and the press, as well as declines in political participation, civil liberties and social capital, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam jails democracy advocate in campaign to stifle dissent</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/vietnam-jails-democracy-advocate-in-campaign-to-stifle-dissent.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/vietnam-jails-democracy-advocate-in-campaign-to-stifle-dissent.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Labour/labor unions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=4773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam’s communist authorities have jailed democracy advocates Tran Khai Thanh Thuy and her husband, Do Ba Tan, the latest in a series of prosecutions that has seen at least activists jailed over recent months.
Thuy has been an active dissident since 2006, organizing workers and farmers to resist government-sanctioned land confiscations. She also contributes to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US will promote Internet freedom, digital democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/clinton-calls-for-internet-freedom-lauds-digital-democracy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/democracy-assistance/clinton-calls-for-internet-freedom-lauds-digital-democracy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Government will fund and facilitate innovative approaches to expanding internet freedom and access, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this morning. Activists like those in Iran’s Green movement were “redefining how technology is used to spread truth and expose injustice”.
Just as samizdat literature undermined communism – “words that pierced the concrete and concertina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synchronized sentencing again hits Vietnamese and Chinese democracy activists</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/synchronized-sentencing-again-hits-vietnamese-and-chinese-democracy-activists.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/synchronized-sentencing-again-hits-vietnamese-and-chinese-democracy-activists.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one-day trial of four Vietnamese democracy advocates ended today as a Hanoi court handed down unusually harsh sentences. <a href="http://www.demdigest.net/blog/regions/asia/synchronized-sentencing-again-hits-vietnamese-and-chinese-democracy-activists.html">[read full story]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecutions confirm Vietnam&#8217;s reversion to more closed society</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/human-rights/prosecutions-confirm-vietnams-reversion-to-more-closed-society.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/human-rights/prosecutions-confirm-vietnams-reversion-to-more-closed-society.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vietnamese democracy and human rights activists go on trial tomorrow, charged with conspiring to overthrow the communist regime. The ruling Communist Party equates the advocacy of political pluralism with treason.
The court has banned the use of any recording devices or computers by media attending the trial. &#8220;These are the regulations of this court,&#8221; said a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rule of law: democracy&#8217;s bottom-line</title>
		<link>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/rule-of-law/rule-of-law-democracys-bottom-line.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.demdigest.net/blog/rule-of-law/rule-of-law-democracys-bottom-line.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Liu Xiaobo, Tran Anh Kim, Evgeny Zhovtis, Emin Milli, and Adnan Hajizade have in common? 
Find out here. 
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