Vietnam’s southern political fraction once stormed the country’s political arena, especially during the time when Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung was Prime Minister. With the power of money, Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung influenced the Party Central Committee and the Politburo. As…
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…
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…
The more “tighten” the more “unfold“ The 6th Conference of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, term 13, opened in Hanoi on the morning of October 3, 2022. At the plenum, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong acknowledged…
Trinh Ba Tu, a famous land rights activist who was on hunger strike in Prison No. 6 (Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An province), was beaten and shackled by the prison’s authorities for several days in solitary confinement. Tu shared the…
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is not as strong as we think. The Party is sick, even more, serious than leaders like General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong or President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The party has changed into a political…
Tan Tao Investment & Industry Joint Stock Company, with the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors Dang Thi Hoang Yen residing in the US, on September 12 sent an urgent request for help to the leader of the Communist Party…
Reporters Without Borders on September 13 criticized the five-year prison sentence that the Vietnamese government just handed down to independent journalist Le Anh Hung, who was convicted on August 30 in a trial that was not open to his family…
On September 5, 2022, Regulation No. 80-QD/TW was issued to reaffirm Politburo’s power in cadre work to help the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) strengthen in the context of signs of a weak market threatening sustainable economic growth. The…
Activist Bui Tuan Lam was arrested on September 7 by the Da Nang police on charges of “conducting anti-state propaganda.” Mr. Lam was arrested after being summoned twice for posting a parody video of “Holy Sprinkle Onions” in the style…
