Australia’s 7 News news agency reported that nine Vietnamese flight attendants had been arrested in Australia for smuggling $60,000 in suspected drug money. Photographic information believed to be evidence of the case shows passports with the Vietnamese national emblem and…
Mr. Truong Van Dung – a Hanoi resident who often participates in civil activities to demand the rights of the people – was arrested by the Hanoi Police in the early morning of May 21 at his home in Hanoi…
Twelve independent journalists were arrested in 2021 alone, making it the worst year yet for press freedom in Vietnam. On May 9, the Project 88 organization released the Vietnam human rights report 2021, thereby further supporting the widespread view that…
On April 14, Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung was detained and probed for allegedly “taking bribes” to approve permits for companies to conduct so-called “citizen rescue” flights during the COVID-19 pandemic. The electronic information portal of the Ministry…
The Hanoi human rights activist has yet to face trial despite being arrested for a full year. April 7th marks one year since activist Nguyen Thuy Hanh, founder of the 50k Foundation, was arrested. She was accused under the charge…
A Vietnamese man in the United Kingdom has just been arrested in connection with a network of smuggling his compatriots to the UK. Mai Van Nguyen, 32, was arrested on 8 February in Birmingham during a police raid against a…
Tuoi Tre newspaper reported that the Office of the Hanoi Police’s Bureau of Investigation announced on February 8 that the agency had probed the 46-year-old famous environmental activist for “tax evasion” under Article 200 of the country’s Criminal Code. The…
The director and deputy director and two officers of the Consular Department of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have just been arrested and probed for accepting bribes when conducting rescue flights for citizens stuck abroad during the recent COVID-19 epidemic.…
Tokyo police have just arrested a Vietnamese officer studying at the Japan National Defense Academy on suspicion of selling residence cards, Japanese media quoted the Tokyo police announcement as saying on January 21. Accordingly, the organized crime control agency of…
Mr. Mai Phan Loi, who has a lot of experience in the Vietnamese newspaper industry and has a certain influence on the country’s social networks, has just been arrested in Hanoi. Vietnam’s state-controlled media on July 2 said that the…
