Civil society activist and prisoner of conscience Nguyen Nang Tinh was awarded the Le Dinh Luong prize by the Vietnam Reform Revolution Party (ie Viet Tan) this year with the theme “Defending the sovereignty against threats of China.” Nguyen Nang…
Prisoner of conscience Phan Van Thu, who is serving a life sentence at Gia Trung Prison camp in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, died on November 20 after a period of serious illness without adequate and timely treatment.…
Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Huynh Thuc Vy told relatives that she had been beaten and terrorized by criminal prisoners since early October in Gia Trung Prison camp, but the prison authorities have not been taking any measures to prevent the…
According to information from the family of prisoner of conscience Trinh Ba Tu, his current situation is very worrying. Since September 20, 2022, his family has not received any information about his condition. The prison authorities cut off his right…
The wife of prisoner of conscience Bui Van Thuan filed a petition for help when she was harassed and threatened by a stranger, but authorities in Mai Lam ward, Nghi Son town, Thanh Hoa province said there was no basis…
Prisoner of conscience Trinh Ba Tu, who is serving his eight-year prison sentence at Prison camp No. 6 (Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An province), has not been allowed to meet his family by the prison’s authorities in October, after more…
Two prisoners of conscience were treated badly in prison for helping their fellow prisoners or refusing to wear prison uniforms. Relatives of these prisoners of conscience told reporters of Radio Free Asia (RFA) by telephone on October 10. Prisoner of…
MP Julian Pahlke of the German Federal Assembly in a recent interview affirmed that “environmental protection is not a crime” and pledges to support a Vietnamese dissident until he is freed. In January 2022, Congressman Julian Pahlke, from the Alliance…
Nguyen Hoang Nam, an independent Hoa Hao Buddhist in Vietnam’s southern province of An Giang who has just served four years in prison for “causing public disorder,” told VOA that detention conditions at Xuan Loc Prison camp in the southern…
The health status of political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc was “alarmed” because so far he entered the 10th week of a hunger strike. Immediately after news of political prisoner, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc determined to go on a hunger…
