The United States should give a higher priority to advancing global religious freedom as a matter of national security, says a major new survey. The persecution of people of faith is inherently dangerous because it has the effect of …
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April 30, 2013
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Religious freedom violators threaten national security, says USCIRF
April 24, 2013
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With open dissent and repression on the rise, Vietnam’s one-party rule shaken
“His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer,” The New York …
April 16, 2013
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Time for US and EU to ‘look behind Hanoi’s mask’ on Vietnam’s rights abuses
The European Union has a real opportunity to pressure Vietnam’s leaderson human rights, say activists, when the European Parliament discusses the Communist authorities’ rights violations on April 18. The United States this week expressed concern after Vietnamese officials …
March 25, 2013
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Growing concern over veteran Vietnamese dissident
Human rights and pro-democracy groups are concerned that the health of a detained Vietnamese dissident is deteriorating rapidly.
The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights is “extremely disturbed” by reports that Nguyen Huu Cau (right) is seriously ill in Z30A …
March 19, 2013
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Vietnam: rare mass protests over Communist elite’s impunity
“Angry mourners clashed with riot police at a funeral procession in northern Vietnam at the weekend….in a rare mass protest at alleged impunity for the country’s Communist elite,” AFP reports:
Sunday’s unrest was triggered by the death of Nguyen …
‘We Are All Vietnamese Bloggers’
Dieu Cày is a 60-year-old Vietnamese blogger. In 2007, he wrote the text published below. Four months later, he was arrested and convicted. In 2012 he was subsequently sentenced to 12 years in jail. Why? Because he wrote about freedom …
February 14, 2013
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‘Bloggers and Netizens Behind Bars’ – Vietnam cracks down on Internet freedom
Vietnam experienced the world’s fastest growth in Facebook users over the past year, but the Communist authorities have cracked down on Internet freedom, a new report reveals.
More than 30 people are in prison or awaiting trial for blogging about …
February 8, 2013
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Can Vietnam reform?
“There is growing recognition within parts of the Vietnam government that the game is over and they can no longer hide behind Burma,” says a leading rights activist. “Whether that realization is in turn leading to a willingness to make …
January 31, 2013
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Vietnam ‘escalating crackdown on critics’
Vietnam’s Communist authorities are “is systematically suppressing freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, and persecuting those who question government policies, expose official corruption, or call for democratic alternatives to one-party rule,” according to Human Rights Watch’s World Report …
January 16, 2013
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Democracy in decline, autocrats on the offensive
Newly emerging popular movements for reform were the driving force behind the Middle East’s major gains in democratic rights last year, according to Freedom in the World 2013, Freedom House’s annual report. But other regions experienced setbacks due to …