Book Review
Vietnamese Boat People: Not A Distant Past
Khải Huyền wrote this article in Vietnamese and published it in Luật Khoa Magazine on July 29, 2025. Đàm Vĩnh
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Vietnam Briefing
Cấn Thị Thêu Hospitalized, Đặng Đăng Phước Isolated: Việt Nam’s Harsh Treatment of Political Prisoners
Key Events * Prison Health Crisis Raises Human Rights Concerns in Case of Cấn Thị Thêu; * Political Prisoner Đặng Đăng Phước
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Jailed Dissident Phạm Chí Thành Released Early from Prison; Family Warns of Imminent Danger to Lê Đình Lượng in Solitary Confinement
Key Events * Prisoner of Conscience Phạm Chí Thành Freed Four Months Early; * Family Seeks Global Help for Dissident Lê Đình
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Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience Hold Hunger Strike to Protest Confiscation of Personal Items
Key Events * Prisoners of Conscience in An Diem Prison Start Hunger Strikes * Vietnam Deports a Belarusian Military Volunteer in Ukraine
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Internet Users Charged under Article 331; Ho Chi Minh City Police Question Former Political Prisoners and Their Relatives
Key Events * Social Media Users from Quang Nam and Thanh Hoa Provinces Arrested under Article 331 * Ho Chi Minh City
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Lawyers Raise Concern Over Alleged Police Torture of Buddhist Practitioner Le Thanh Nhat Nguyen
Key Events * Lawyers Raise Concerns over Alleged Torture of Buddhist Practitioner Le Thanh Nhat Nguyen * International Organizations Condemn Vietnam’s
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Vietnam Releases Student Protester Tran Long Phi 21 Months Ahead of Schedule
Key Events * Tran Long Phi, a Protester Against the Law on Special Economic Zone, Released Early from Príson * Facebook is
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Human Rights Watch Urges Australia to Set Clear Benchmark for Human Rights Progress in Vietnam
Key events: * Human Rights Watch: Australia Should Pressure Vietnam to Make Progress in Human Rights * Member of Repressed Pro-Democracy Group
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Thai Court Schedules Extradition Hearing for Montagnard Activist Y Quynh Bdap
Key events: * Thai Court Sets Extradition Hearing for Montagnard Activist Y Quynh Bdap * State Department Upgrades Vietnam’s Trafficking in
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Prisoners of Conscience Protest Harsh Conditions in Nghe An Prison No. 6
Notable events: * Prisoners of Conscience Protest Harsh Conditions in Nghe An Prison No. 6 * Social Media Users Charged With ‘Subversion’
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Central Committee Approves Four New Politburo Members, Appoints General To Lam President
Notable events: * Central Committee Approves Four New Politburo Members and Appoints To Lam President in Major Personnel Restructuring * PEN America
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Iris Scans Required for Vietnam’s New ID Cards; Hanoi Dismisses UN Report on Human Rights Situation
Police to Integrate Residents’ Iris Scans into New ID Cards Iris scans will become a required biometric data, along with
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Political Prisoners in Vietnam Continue to Face Discrimination and Mistreatment
Vietnam’s Political Prisoners Continue to Face Abuses and Mistreatment While in Custody Nguyen Thi Tam, a political prisoner and