
Vietnam Briefing: Vietnamese Lawyer Allegedly Assaulted By Police While Defending Client
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vietnamese attorney assaulted by police while defending their client * On May 17, attorney Le Hoang Tung from Everest Law Firm filed a complaint [https://www.rfa.

Vietnam Briefing: Vietnam Releases Political Dissident Ahead Of Prime Minister’s Visit To The United States
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family of Vietnamese land rights activists petitions the international community for the release of their detained members * In a petition [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/

Vietnam Briefing: Vietnam’s Press Freedom Restrictions Highlighted In RSF’s Latest Report
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vietnam ranks 174th in Reporters Without Borders’ 2022 press freedom index * On May 3, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released [https://rsf.org/en/index] its annual

Vietnam Briefing: Vietnam Seeks EU’s Support In Strengthening National Cybersecurity Apparatus
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day to remember: On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese government surrendered [https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War/The-fall-of-South-Vietnam] unconditionally as North Vietnam Army’s tanks

Vietnam Briefing: Vietnam Steps Up Crackdown On Internet Freedom With Proposed Social Media Regulations
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vietnam proposes new social media regulations to take down ‘illegal content:’ Reuters sources * Reuters on April 21 reported [https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-vietnam-plans-24-hour-take-down-law-illegal-social-media-content-2022-04-20/]

Vietnam Briefing: Vietnam’s Human Rights Abuses Highlighted In U.S. Department Of State Report
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- State Department released 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights, detailing Vietnam’s human rights abuses * The U.S. Department of State released [https://www.state.gov/

Vietnamese Communist Party Spies Inside Religious Institutions
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This article was first published [https://www.luatkhoa.org/2022/03/khi-dang-vien-co-dao-lam-nhiem-vu-nam-tinh-hinh-cac-ton-giao/] in Luat Khoa Magazine on March 11, 2022. The translation was done by Lee Nguyen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a letter [http://langmai.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/LaThuLangMai31-2008.pdf] from Plum Village in 2008, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Vietnam Briefing: Vietnam Votes Against The Suspension Of Russia’s Membership In The UN Human Rights Council
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The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, looks at Vietnam’s social and political developments of the past week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jailed rights activist marks one year in pretrial detention RFA [https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/nguyen-thuy-hanh-04072022171627.html]: * Nguyen Thuy Hanh, a Vietnamese human rights