Story Archive
2020-12-31
Nguyen Tuong Thuy, who blogged for six years for RFA, is being held in a cell with poor ventilation and is 'in so much pain,' his wife says.
2020-12-23
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc wants 16-year sentence reduced in accordance with newer laws.
2020-12-22
Police find “anti-state materials” in house of Le Thi Binh, two months after her brother finished his jail term.
2020-12-21
Economic-Political Discussion group administrators refuse lawyers, get two to four years.
2020-12-17
Truong Chau Huu Danh joins dozens of other journalists and bloggers detained by Hanoi.
2020-12-16
Vietnam begins human trials on a domestically produced vaccine, while Laos looks to Russia for help and Cambodia says it will buy vaccines approved by the World Health Organization.
2020-12-15
Many are free to return home, but have faced travel delays because of concerns in Vietnam over spread of the virus.
2020-12-15
Tran Duc Thach, a war veteran and co-founder of the online Brotherhood for Democracy, had posted writings on Facebook accusing Vietnam's government of corruption and rights abuses.
2020-12-11
Truong Duy Nhat, who blogged for RFA and was kidnapped by police in Thailand for return to Vietnam, is being forced to work eight hours a day, aggravating pain in his back from herniated discs.
2020-12-09
Families of Vietnamese political prisoners describe hardships suffered during lengthy detentions.
2020-12-07
Nguyen Van Hoa and two other prisoners at the An Diem detention camp end their strikes, saying that most of their demands for better treatment have been met.
2020-12-03
Former deputy trade minister Ho Thi Kim Hoa fled Vietnam in 2018 ahead of charges of mismanaging state assets and is being sought by Interpol for arrest.
2020-12-03
The decision overturned lower court verdicts that said Taiwan’s judiciary lacked jurisdiction in the case.
2020-12-02
Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, now serving a 16-year term for subversion, is calling for his case to be reviewed and sentence reduced in line with Vietnam's penal code revised in 2015.
2020-12-02
Amnesty International critical of social media companies for allowing Hanoi to censor content.
