By Đặng Quân Từ ngày 27 – 28/02/2021, sẽ diễn ra hội nghị của Ủy Ban liên minh Úc – Tân Tây Lan về các nạn nhân của chế độ cộng sản Trung Quốc, nhóm họp tại Canberra. Cuộc hội nghị này mang tính biểu trưng cho ánh sáng phơi bày sự thật về …
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Remarks by Teresa Ngoc Kieu Tran (Vietnamese version: translated by Le Minh Trung) Victims of Communist Regime of China: Review and Prospect February 27 – 28, 2021, Canberra Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, a big thank you to the organising committee for this opportunity to share some of my thoughts on this …
By Human Rights Watch Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso, Minister of Finance Hiroshi Kajiyama, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Tadashi Maeda, Governor, Japan Bank for International Cooperation Atsuro Kuroda, Chairman and CEO, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Takehiko Kakiuchi, President and CEO, Mitsubishi Corporation Mareshige Shimizu, President and CEO, Chugoku …
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By Amnesty International Party congress starting 25 January likely to nominate new prime minister and state president for coming five years Recognized prisoners of conscience have doubled from 84 to 170 since the previous CPV congress in 2016 Viet Nam imprisoning a record number of prisoners of conscience as repression heightens ahead of congress …
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Leading partners including the United States and European Union can and should do more to discourage Vietnam’s fierce crackdown on dissent. By Judith Bergman from the Diplomat “We are like fish under the blade, always ready to be arrested,” Vietnamese journalist and dissident Pham Chi Dung said in 2015. “Up until 2012, if you …
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By Human Rights Watch Governments Should Hold Beijing Accountable for Arbitrary Action (New York) – The Hong Kong government should not file charges against the 53 pro-democracy politicians arbitrarily arrested on January 6, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. All were arrested for “subversion” under Hong Kong’s draconian National Security Law (NSL), which the …
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By Zen Soo from the Sydney Morning Herald Hong Kong: Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested on a new charge under the national security law while an American rights lawyer who was detained in a sweeping crackdown was granted bail. Friends and family of Wong, who is serving a 13½-month …
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By OHCHR Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 8 January 2021 On Tuesday, 5 January, three independent journalists in Viet Nam received severe sentences of between 11 and 15 years’ imprisonment after being found guilty of national security offences – a disturbing development that appears to …
The verdicts are the latest in a continuing crackdown on dissent ahead of a key ruling party meeting this month. By Al Jazeera A court in Vietnam has found three journalists guilty of charges of spreading propaganda against the state, handing them jail sentences of between 11 and 15 years. Pham Chi Dung, …
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Jitters are setting in as the Vietnamese Communist Party prepares for the country’s paramount political event. By Sebastian Strangio of the Diplomat In the year leading up to the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP)’s quinquennial national congresses, it has long been common for the government to tighten up on dissidents as it seeks to forestall …
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