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  • February 19, 2016

    19 February 2016 – Viet Nam must end the ongoing incommunicado detention of human rights defenders Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà which is in violation of their human rights, including the right to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. All charges against Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà, who Amnesty International has designated prisoners of conscience, should be withdrawn and they should be immediately and unconditionally released. An incommunicado detention is one in which a detainee is held without access to the outside world, particularly to family, lawyers, courts and independent doctors. The practice of incommunicado detention violates key rights of... Read more »

  • January 11, 2016

    Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai (2011) Lawyer NGUYEN Van Dai was arrested [i] in Hanoi on Dec. 16, 2015 on the charge of „conducting propaganda against the Socialist State Vietnam“ (Art. 88 of the Penal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) when he was on his way to meet with members of the European Union delegation who were in Hanoi for the annual human rights dialogue with Vietnam.[ii] Officers of the Ministry of Public Security searched his home afterwards and confiscated many computers, laptops, cell phones, hard disks, USB sticks and documents. On the same day Ms. LE Thu Ha, his assistant, was also arrested in his office in Hanoi.... Read more »

  • November 3, 2015

    Buddhist Monks blocked the raid of public security agents during the visit of the EU-Delegation at Phuoc Hue Pagoda, Lam Dong Province, on 9 Dec 2009 Joint Statement of Concern on Vietnam’s Draft Law on Religion We, the undersigned civil society organizations are concerned that Vietnam’s draft Law on Belief and Religion[i] is inconsistent with the right to freedom of religion or belief. We call upon the Government to comprehensively revise the draft Law to conform with Vietnam’s obligations under international human rights law in the course of an inclusive consultation process with recognized and independent religion or belief communities within Vietnam and human rights law experts, including the UN... Read more »

  • May 30, 2015

    Update for reporting period from May 2014 to May 2015 (Prepared by VETO! Human Rights Defenders’ Network on May 30, 2015)   SSFO-Shed in Lè Hamlet, Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam before and after the destruction on May 26, 2015 The Duong Van Minh belief is a new variant of Christian religion for Hmong ethnics in the four Northeastern provinces of Vietnam: Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang and Thai Nguyen since 1989. The most known characteristic of this belief is the simplified funeral ceremony. The believers use symbolic items made of wood such as a crucifix, a swallow, a toad and a cicada during the funeral ceremony. The villagers share... Read more »

  • December 3, 2014

    On December 2, 2014, leaders of the Christian Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim faiths met in Roma and signed a joint declaration against Modern Slavery and human trafficking. Please see follow the Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders against Modern Slavery “We, the undersigned, are gathered here today for a historic initiative to inspire spiritual and practical action by all global faiths and people of good will everywhere to eradicate modern slavery across the world by 2020 and for all time. In the eyes of God, each human being is a free person, whether girl, boy, woman or man, and is destined to exist for the good... 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 »

  • August 1, 2014

    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt, was invited by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to a country visit from 21 to 31 July 2014. After visiting some religious groups in Hanoi, Tuyen Quang Province, Ho Chi Minh City and Vinh Long the Special Rapporteur interrupted his travel on July 28, 2014, due to reason “that  some individuals whom I wanted to meet with had been either under heavy surveillance, warned, intimidated, harassed or prevented from travelling by the police. Even those who successfully met with me were not free from a certain degree of police surveillance or... Read more »

  • July 30, 2014

    VETO! Report (July 2014) Vietnam Suppression of religious freedom among ethnic minorities The 25-year persecution of the Hmong’s Duong Van Minh Religion The Duong Van Minh belief is a variant of Christian religion for Hmong ethnics. It has up to 10.000 believers living in the four Northeastern provinces of Vietnam: Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang and Thai Nguyen. It is not recognized by the Vietnamese government and therefore its activities are seen as illegal. The most known characteristic of this belief is the simplified funeral ceremony. Instead of expensive parties and having noisy drums and trumpets during the funeral the believers use symbolic items made of wood such as... Read more »

  • July 21, 2014

    (VETO! notice: The Vietnamese human rights defender Dinh Dang Dinh was arrested in October 2011 because he had protested against bauxite mining in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and called for a plural democracy. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison for “spreading propaganda aginst the state” in August 2012. He passed away in April 2014, likely his cancer was too late treated by a hospital. Dr. Med. Tran is living in Germany and has followed the medical history of the political prisoner Dinh. ) Read more »

  • June 29, 2014

    On June 26, 2014, the Vietnamese labor rights activist Do Thi Minh Hanh was released from the Thanh Xuan Prison in Hanoi. The police of her hometown collected her at the prison and brought her home by car. After a journey of two days over 1,700 km she arrived home on June 28, 2014. She was very exhausted but happy. Since March 2014 VETO! has advocated for her freedom. According to VETO! information she was amnestied by the President of State and released unconditionally. VETO! congratulates her and her family and wishes her all the best! Picture of Do Thi Minh Hanh (taken at her home on June 28, 2014)... Read more »

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