The Report on Religious Freedom in Vietnam is published on the first Monday of each month. If you would like to contribute information to the report,...
On May 8, 2020, around 15:30 Hanoi’s time, the 17 members-committee of the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam reaffirmed Ho Duy Hai’s lower courts’ decisions and...
On May 6, 2020, a cassation trial started for Ho Duy Hai – a death-row inmate in Vietnam. His mother has been requesting the courts to...
This article was originally published in SEAPA.org on June 3, 2019. As Facebook recently announced that it would agree to significantly increase censorship of “anti-state” posts...
• Focus: Police impede festivities for Pure Hoa Hao Buddhism founder Huynh Phu So’s birthday in An Giang province The Inter-religious Council of Vietnam issues letter...
• Focus: The government’s Committee For Religious Affairs certifies the Vietnamese Church of Latter-Day Saints. Hoa Hao Buddhist Tran Thanh Giang is sentenced to eight years...
• Focus: Tay Nguyen highlands – the government continues to uphold oppressive policies against religious groups that refuse state control. In the southern region – Six...
• Focus: A Protestant in the Tay Nguyen highlands was sentenced to seven years in prison for undermining national unity (supplement to the August 2019 report)...
Leader Le Dinh Kinh killed, wife tortured, and 22 others charged, as civil society demands answers from government
In scenes resembling a war zone, Dong Tam villagers vow to fight to the death to resist “corrupt” land reclamation