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• Trial observer in the case against the Vietnamese Blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (The Gossiper)

  March 18, 2016

  

  VETO! Human Rights Defenders‘ Network:  On March 18, 2016, MP Martin Patzelt, member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of German parliament (Bundestag), issued the below press release announcing his trip  to Vietnam to observe the  trial of Mr. Nguyen Huu Vinh (Blogger Anhbasam) and Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy. MP Patzelt has repeatedly met Ms. Le Thi Minh Ha, Vinh´s wife, who advocated for the release of her husband at the German Bundestag. Besides Mr. Patzelt, Ms. Ha also received support from other Members of Parliament (MP): MP Michael Brand and MP Frank Heinrich (CDU/CSU), MP Sabine Batzing-Lichtenthäler (SPD), MP Tom Koenigs and MP Omid Nouripour... Read more »

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• Freedom for the Vietnamese civil rights defender Nguyen Van Dai

  February 22, 2016

  

  Translation of the Press release of Mrs. Marie-Luise Dött, Member of the German Bundestag, Feb. 22, 2016  Freedom for the Vietnamese civil rights defender Nguyen Van Dai “Today I assume parliamentary sponsorship for the Vietnamese civil rights activist Nguyen Van Dai, arrested in Hanoi on December 16, 2015. For me there was no hesitation to say yes to the request from the human rights organization “Veto! Human Rights Defenders’ Network.”  Just last year in August, I met Nguyen Van Dai in Hanoi during a delegation visit of the Christian Democratic Union / Christian Social Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. The talk focused primarily on the human rights situation... Read more »

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• Vietnamese labor rights activist Do Thi Minh Hanh visits German Bundestag

  November 14, 2014

  

  On November 13, 2014, the Vietnamese labor rights activist Do Thi Minh Hanh visited the German Bundestag. She met MP Michael Brand, Chairman of Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag, who has adopted her during the imprisonment, and MP Frank Heinrich, Member of Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag, who has visited her in Thanh Xuan Prison in Hanoi on April 24, 2014. She was sorry for not being able to meet MP Sabine Baetzing-Lichtenthäler who has also sponsored her case. MP Baetzing-Lichtenthäler was appointed Minister of Social Affairs in the Rheinland-Pfalz State some days before her visit. Pic: MP... Read more »

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