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  • November 8, 2017

    Today 15 non-governmental organizations * call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Nguyễn Bắc Truyển, a human rights defender in Vietnam. In a joint letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 8, 2017 the organisations express their deep concern about his arrest and his incommunicado, arbitrary, detention since the end of July 2017.   The joint letter wrote: Mr. Nguyễn Bắc Truyển was last seen on July 30, 2017 while he was waiting for his wife near his workplace at the Redemptorist Church in Ho Chi Minh City. Later that day, the website of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced that he had been arrested... Read more »

  • April 6, 2017

      On April 5, 2017, the German Federal President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and his wife, Elke Büdenbender, received Mr. Vu Quoc Dung in Bellevue Palace in Berlin. Some hours before Mr. Dung has accepted the Human Rights Price 2017 of the German Association of Judges on behalf of the imprisoned Vietnamese lawyer Nguyen Van Dai. The German President expressed his “extreme” regret that the wife of lawyer Dai was banned on traveling to Germany to receive the price on behalf of her husband. He called Vietnam to more respect on human rights and rule of law. During the audience the German President and Mrs. Elke Büdenbender asked Mr. Dung on the... Read more »

  • December 22, 2016

    On December 22, 2016 the Parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the Vietnamese Blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh. [1] VETO! welcomes this initiative and believes that it will help protecting the alienable rights of the imprisoned blogger. VETO! also greatly appreciates the adoption of Mrs. Nhu Quynh into the Program “Parliamentarians protect Parliamentarians” of the German Bundestag. [2] In the frame of this program parliamentarians of the German Bundestag stand up and support vulnerable parliamentarians in danger, politicians and human rights defenders in other countries. VETO! would take the opportunity to thank MP Frank Schwabe, Spokesman for Human... Read more »

  • September 14, 2016

    Call of Mrs Marie-Luise Dött, Member of the German Bundestag September 19, 2016 A human rights defender needs your support The Vietnamese human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai has been detained in Hanoi, Viet Nam, since 16 December 2015. He stands accused of “propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam”. If convicted, he faces between three and 20 years in prison. Dai has been detained incommunicado since his arrest. I have agreed to act as the parliamentary sponsor for Nguyen Van Dai and am working closely with the human rights organisation “VETO! Human Rights Defenders’ Network” to press for his release. I met Nguyen Van Dai while visiting Viet Nam... Read more »

  • May 24, 2016

    MP Dött, Mrs. Minh Khanh, MP Lengsfeld on May 24, 2016 in Berlin Mrs. Vu Minh Khanh travelled to many countries to campaign for the release of her husband, the lawyer and human rights defender Nguyen Van Dai, who is held incommunicado since December 2015 in Hanoi. Mrs. Khanh visited Mrs. Marie-Luise Dött, Member of the German Bundestag, on May 24, 2016 in her Bundestag’s office in Berlin. She reported her and Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld, Member of the German Bundestag, that her husband is held incommunicado since his arrest. Neither his family nor his lawyer could visit him in prison. MP Dött and MP Lengsfeld shared her concerns and promised... Read more »

  • October 22, 2015

    Prepared for the conference Defending Freedom of Religion or Belief (for minorities) in Asia in European Parliament on 21 October 2015 Vu Quoc Dung (VETO! Human Rights Defenders‘ Network) Unconscious Hmong believers during a raid in Cao Bang province in November 2013 Vietnam is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country in South East Asia with a population of about 90 million. The vast majority, about 86% of the population (77 million) are ethnic Kinh. The remaining 13 million belong to 53 ethnic minority groups ranging from hundreds to a million people in each group. Large ethnic groups with populations of over one million include the Mường, Tày, Thái, Khmer and Hmong.... Read more »

  • 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 »

  • November 5, 2014

    Mrs. Le Thi Minh Ha, wife of the Vietnamese human rights defender Nguyen Huu Vinh, went to Berlin/Germany to meet with members of the German Government and Parliament to advocate for the freedom of her husband. Mr. Nguyen Huu Vinh, born in 1956, initiated in 2007 the blog anhbasam (“The Gossiper”) which daily provides a compilation of information on political issues from several sources: state media, foreign press agencies, but also from political activists, journalists, private blogs and websites, which are stamped by the Vietnamese government as “reactionary” and “subversive”. He is one of the most prominent civil rights activists in Vietnam. Mr. Vinh and his colleague, Mrs. Nguyen Thi... Read more »

  • October 10, 2014

    Mr. Nguyen Huu Vinh, born in 1956, known as blogger anhbasam (“The Gossiper”), is one of the most prominent civil rights activists in Vietnam. He and his colleague, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, were arrested in Hanoi on May 5, 2014 and since then they are in detention. The police accuse them of “abusing democratic freedom to infringe the interests of the State” according to Art. 258, Criminal Code of Vietnam. His arrest happened three days after China had installed an oil platform off the coast from Vietnam and hence put the Vietnamese population in excitement. At that time the website anhbasam, which was named after him, tried to provide... Read more »

  • June 28, 2014

    Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh spent two weeks (from April 4 to 17, 2014) in Berlin to meet with members of the German Government and Parliament to advocate for the freedom of her daughter Do Thi Minh Hanh who is held in the prison Thanh Xuan in Hanoi,Vietnam. Pic 1: Mrs. Tran Thi Ngoc Minh met the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag in Berlin on Apr. 8, 2014. A labor rights activist Ms. Do Thi Minh Hanh has organized a workers’ strike against the labor exploitation and insults of female workers in a shoe factory in January 2010. She was arrested in February 2010... Read more »

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