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Social media users in Vietnam on platforms including Facebook and TikTok will need to verify their identities as part of strict new internet regulations that critics say further undermine freedom of expression in the communist country.
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An international pressure group is calling on governments and financial institutions to reconsider funding a plan to help Vietnam transition from fossil fuels to clean energy while it jails climate activists.
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The 2024 Vietnam Human Rights Awards Ceremony and the celebration of the 76th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were solemnly held at
the New Diamond Club in Houston on the afternoon of December 15, 2024.
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The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is alarmed by the Vietnamese government’s escalating crackdown on independent religious communities—including Khmer Krom Buddhists, Montagnard Protestants, Cao Dai followers, and many others.
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PEN America is profoundly grateful to Rep. Michelle Steel for sponsoring Vietnamese writer and prisoner of conscience Le Huu Minh Tuan as part of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission’s Defending Freedoms Project (DFP).
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Vietnam has jailed five party members for feeding information to Duong Van Thai, a blogger who is believed to have been abducted in Thailand last year and resurfaced in Vietnamese custody, the human rights group 88 Project reported, citing sources inside the government.
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The Vietnamese government should repeal a draconian new decree tightening control of internet use and the 2018 Law on Cybersecurity, Human Rights Watch said today. The regulation, which undermines access to information and freedom of expression in Vietnam, goes into effect on December 25, 2024.
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A missionary from a Christian church in Vietnam’s Central Highlands who was arrested last year on charges of “undermining the national unity policy” was named as the winner of the annual Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award.
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Two pastors of the Ede ethnic minority who lead independent Protestant house churches in the highland province of Dak Lak were shot in their legs in recent months.
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Global social media platforms Facebook, Google, and TikTok censored more than 15,000 pieces of content deemed to be “anti-Party and anti-state,” over the past year in Vietnam, government statistics showed.
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ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) strongly condemns the potential forced extradition of Montagnard refugee and human rights activist Y Quynh Bdap from Thailand to Vietnam.
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Human rights activists accused Communist-run Vietnam of infringing on freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to five ethnically Khmer Buddhist monks and four religious activists.
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A top U.S. lawmaker has pledged to work with rights groups as a special advocate for Dang Dinh Bach, a Vietnamese climate activist and political prisoner, and called on Hanoi to immediately release Bach from jail.
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A man whose ascetic pursuit of Buddhist studies earned him countless followers both on and off of social media as he traveled by foot across Vietnam has ended his vow of poverty, according to a letter purportedly written in his own hand.
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Four prisoners began a hunger strike at a central Vietnam prison in early November to protest the confiscation of paper, pens and books from inmates, a relative of one of the prisoners told Radio Free Asia.
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Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people – including five members of the same family – after violent clashes during an attempt to build a road in An Giang province.
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The Vietnamese diplomatic mission in Geneva has responded to a joint communication of three United Nations special rapporteurs in a reply dated Nov. 1, which rejected allegations that the charges brought against climate leader Hoang Thi Minh Hong were politically motivated. Vietnam claimed that her arrest and trial were “conducted in accordance with the laws of Vietnam.”
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The Vietnam Human Rights Network announced the 2024 Vietnam Human Rights Award results through a press conference on Facebook and YouTube at 8:00 a.m. (California time, 5:00 p.m. in Western Europe, and 11:00 p.m. in Vietnam) on Monday, November 18, 2024.
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The Vietnamese diplomatic mission in Geneva has responded to a joint communication of three United Nations special rapporteurs in a reply dated Nov. 1, which rejected allegations that the charges brought against climate leader Hoang Thi Minh Hong were politically motivated. Vietnam claimed that her arrest and trial were “conducted in accordance with the laws of Vietnam.”
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Vietnam is tightening control over what can be posted on global internet sites such as YouTube by forcing companies to ask for user contact information that authorities can demand they hand over.
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The largest global union federation of journalists' trade unions called Tuesday for the immediate release of Duong Van Thai, a blogger who was arrested for his anti-corruption reporting in which he criticized the ruling Communist Party and its members.
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A group of about 20 Vietnamese former political prisoners and relatives of current prisoners were detained on Friday after meeting at a restaurant, with police forcing them to make posts on social media disavowing their activism in order to be let free.
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An international rights group has added its voice to those of relatives of Vietnamese political prisoner Le Huu Minh Tuan, who say his health has seriously deteriorated since his arrest nearly four years ago. They want him freed immediately so he can receive urgent medical attention.
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The United States said on Thursday it was concerned by Vietnam's conviction and "harsh" sentencing of blogger Duong Van Thai, and deeply troubled by reports he was abducted by Vietnamese authorities in Thailand.
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The Vietnamese government should annul the politically motivated verdict against the democracy activist Duong Van Thai and release him immediately, Human Rights Watch said today.
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PEN America is deeply concerned about the health and welfare of Le Huu Minh Tuan, an editor and member of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN). Tuan’s health has deteriorated significantly since his arrest and detention in January 2021
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Nguyen Thi Tam, serving a six-year sentence for “propaganda against the state” at a prison in Vietnam, said her cellmate threatened to kill her, Tam’s daughter told Radio Free Asia.
Since April, she has been sharing a cell with a woman jailed for drug offenses at the prison in Thanh Hoa province.
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A court in Hanoi sentenced a blogger who went missing from Thailand last year and resurfaced in Vietnamese police custody to 12 years in prison and three years probation on Wednesday for anti-state propaganda, a person familiar with the situation told Radio Free Asia.
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In the 4th cycle of the U.N. Universal Periodic Review, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Do Hung Viet claims a commitment to the process and “dedication to protecting and promoting human rights.” Their record tells a different story.
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A United Nations working group has found that a VOA contributing journalist imprisoned by Vietnam was arbitrarily detained prior to sentencing and incarceration.
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A man who was imprisoned in 2018 following nationwide protests has been released 21 months early – the third activist in a month to be set free ahead of their full sentence.
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The Thai government should immediately reject Vietnam’s request to extradite an Indigenous Montagnard human rights activist and permit him to resettle abroad, Human Rights Watch said today.
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PEN America strongly condemns the ongoing harassment and intimidation of Dang Thi Hue, a Vietnamese activist and online commentator, by the Vietnamese government.
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A group of nearly three dozen rights groups called on Thailand’s prime minister Friday to release a Vietnamese activist who has been ordered extradited home to face imprisonment on terrorism charges, saying he faces the possibility of torture if returned.
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Activists have rejected a claim by Taiwan’s Formosa Group that it has fulfilled all of its obligations related to a devastating chemical spill in 2016 at one of its plants in Vietnam, saying the company has failed to pay victims adequate compensation and prove that it is no longer damaging the environment.
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A non-profit
organization that offered courses aimed at fostering independent thinking among
Vietnamese citizens still has the attention of government investigators almost a
year after it was forced to shut down.
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Vietnamese authorities have released political prisoner Nguyen Thuy Hanh, who has been detained since April 2021 on charges of “anti-state propaganda,” her husband told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
Huynh Ngoc Chenh said his wife was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison
at a secret trial on July 31, 2024.
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To mark Vietnam’s National Day, the communist regime in Hanoi has decided to release nearly 3,800 common prisoners before the end of their sentences, including 20 foreigners. However, no political prisoners were granted amnesty in this annual clemency, which took effect October 1.
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Today, as Co-Chair of the Global Magnitsky Sanctions Coalition, and in collaboration with BPSOS, a U.S. based human rights organisation, we filed a comprehensive sanctions recommendation to Global Affairs Canada, urging the government to take action against sixteen Vietnamese individuals implicated in gross human rights violations.
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Religious freedom advocates are desperately seeking information on the whereabouts of 11 imprisoned Christians in Vietnam.
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Prominent Vietnamese democracy activist Tran Huynh Duy Thuc
said he was forced to accept a presidential pardon after nearly 16 years in
jail.
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"A Thai court ruled on Monday that Montagnard activist Y Quynh Bdap should be sent back to Vietnam where he faces terrorism charges.
The judge at the Bangkok Criminal Court said there were sufficient grounds to approve the Vietnamese government’s extradition request.
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Three inmates at a prison in Vietnam’s Nghe An province are on hunger strike to protest against harsh conditions and demand the release of all political prisoners, relatives told Radio Free Asia
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Recently released after nearly 16 years in prison, Vietnamese human rights activist Tran Huynh Duy Thuc walks up the stairs of his family’s home, holding the hand of a toddler.
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The Vietnam Climate Defenders Coalition, a group of over 30 international and regional environmental, climate justice, and human rights organizations, celebrates the early release from prison of climate advocate and environmental defender Hoang Thi Minh Hong.
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A U.N. expert has urged Vietnam's government to ensure that all its citizens have the right to participate in the development process, as the country's top leader To Lam prepares to speak before the United Nations General Assembly.
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Police in Vietnam’s Kien Giang province have arrested a 63-year-old woman for “activities aimed at overthrowing the people’s government,” state media reported, the fifth person arrested in recent weeks for links to a group Hanoi brands a ‘terrorist’ organization.
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Vietnam has released two prominent political prisoners, a day before its top leader To Lam headed to the United States to speak before the United Nations General Assembly.
Climate campaigner Hoang Thi Minh Hong, was sentenced to three years in prison last September for tax evasion.
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On Sept. 22, 2023, Hoa Binh Provincial Police executed the death row inmate by lethal injection, in spite of protests by international rights groups and foreign embassies.
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Two decades after the U.S. government designated Vietnam as Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for tolerating or engaging in religious rights violations, religious freedom has deteriorated despite the designation’s initial successes, a new report states.
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The UN says Vietnamese authorities retaliated against those cooperating with its human rights agency.
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Since announcing its goal, Hanoi imprisoned 6 activists who pushed for changes to the national energy policy.
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Vietnam’s Hanoi People’s Court sentenced prominent activist and former member of the critical YouTube channel CHTV, Phan Van Bach, to five years in prison on Monday. He was convicted under Article 117 of the Penal Code, which criminalizes “distributing anti-state propaganda.” Phan Van Bach had faced a maximum sentence of 12 years.
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A Hanoi court sentenced journalist and political activist Nguyen Vu Binh to seven years in prison on Tuesday, in a move critics described as a "brazen intimidation" of the media.
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A journalist and critic of the Vietnamese government who covered corruption, land rights and the environment was jailed for seven years by a court in Hanoi on Sept. 10, after authorities ignored pleas by civil society groups for his immediate release.
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Le Trong Hung, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for “propaganda against the state” in Vietnam’s Nghe An province, began a 50-day hunger strike Wednesday..
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Vietnamese police arrested a citizen for suspected links to a self-proclaimed government in exile ahead of Monday’s National Day, the latest crackdown on those who support the group.
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Activist Nguyen Ngoc Anh, who has just been released after serving six years in prison, told Radio Free Asia he was proud of himself for taking a stand against injustice.
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A non-profit supporting Vietnamese human rights has been the target of a multi-year campaign designed to deliver a variety of malware on compromised hosts.
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Authorities in Vietnam are pressing on with a crackdown on social media users who are seen as critical of the government, using two articles of the Criminal Code that rights groups say are too vague, to punish those “opposing” the state and the ruling Communist Party.
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United Nations experts are calling on Vietnam to answer their concerns over the trial of 100 Montagnards in January, in connection with a 2023 attack on government offices in which nine people were killed.
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A Thai court considering whether to extradite a Montagnard who faces terrorism charges in Vietnam has been hearing witness testimonies, including those of the Thai police and Vietnamese police, in a case being closely watched by international rights groups.
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Police in Vietnam’s Central Highlands have arrested a member of the Montagnard community on charges of collecting one-sided information and reporting it to other members of the ethnic minority group living abroad in order to oppose the government.
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A court in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi found activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen guilty of “propaganda against the state” on Thursday and jailed him for five years, with no probation, on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 12 years.
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Members of the Falun Gong spiritual sect are having a negative impact on Vietnam’s political security and public order and authorities will act to discourage participation in its activities, Vietnamese state media reported.
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When the Vietnamese government announced the death of the top leader, Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, on July 19 many celebrities rushed to express their condolences on social media.
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A court in Bangkok on Thursday began hearing a Vietnamese request for the extradition of a Montagnard activist who Vietnam accuses of terrorism but who rights groups say will be tortured if sent back.
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Vietnamese activist Pham Van Troi told Radio Free Asia he had no regrets about fighting for democracy, after coming to the end of a seven-year sentence for “activities aimed at overthrowing the government.”
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29 Members of US Congress have submitted a written letter to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, requesting the release of a Vietnamese activist and help for him to resettle in a third country instead of being extradited, according to Kannavee Suebsang, a list-MP for the Fair Party.
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Australia should press the Vietnamese government on human rights by seeking clear, concrete, and measurable benchmarks for progress in upcoming meetings, Human Rights Watch said
in a recent submission to the Australian government.
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Joint open letter from FIDH and its member organisation, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) ahead of the visit of Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU) to Vietnam from 29-31 July to discuss reinforcing EU-Vietnam cooperation on issues of security, sustainable development and climate policy.Thailand.
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A court in Vietnam has sentenced Ngo Thi To Nhien, director of a clean energy think tank, to three-and-a-half years in prison, according to human rights group Project 88.
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The Vietnamese government is intensifying a crackdown on critical voices before the state funeral of Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong who died last week. Authorities have fined residents for discussing Trong’s death on social media and asked Facebook to block dissenting posts.
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The Vietnamese government has denied allegations of repression against two Montagnards who
wrote to the United Nations about the lack of religious freedom in their home province of Dak Lak.
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A court in Bangkok on Monday postponed the hearing on Vietnam's request for Thailand to extradite Montagnard activist Y Quynh Bdap.
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A court in Vietnam sentenced Pham Van Cho to seven years in prison and two years probation for posts he made on Facebook that insulted the country and revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, state media reported.
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Authorities in Vietnam’s Dak Lak province have refused to issue a passport to former political prisoner Huynh Thuc Vy, for "national security reasons," she told Radio Free Asia. However, the provincial police department’s Security Investigation Agency didn’t provide any documents to support the decision.
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Human rights groups are calling on Brussels to end its “box-ticking” talks with Vietnam and to take more drastic actions.
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Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Hoang Duc Binh told his family he finds it hard to walk after being shackled by the leg for 10 days.
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Thai authorities must not forcibly return a Montagnard and Ede Indigenous human rights activist to Vietnam where he would be at severe risk of torture, Amnesty International said ahead of his extradition hearing next week.
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An international human rights coalition said that Thailand would violate its obligations under domestic and international law if they extradite human rights activist Y Quynh Bdap back to Vietnam.
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Vietnamese authorities have fined two social media users for posting videos of a rock said to resemble “barefoot monk” Thich Minh Tue.
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Christians, sentenced to a total of 90 years and eight months in prison for
their religious activities, have mysteriously disappeared, raising significant
concerns about the treatment of religious minorities in Vietnam.
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Independent experts* today expressed grave concern about Vietnam’s request to Thailand to extradite refugee and human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap, who co-founded Montagnards Stand for Justice, an organisation that advocates for indigenous rights in Vietnam.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Thailand.
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On the occasion of the 12th EU-Viet Nam Human Rights Dialogue, held on 4 July 2024 in Brussels, ARTICLE 19 and the undersigned organisations and individuals call on the European Union (EU) to urge the Viet Nam government to repeal repressive laws and regulations and drop the prosecution and harassment of journalists and activists and others who exercise their freedom of expression.
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An ethnic Vietnamese congressman from the California State House of Representatives has written to the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam about the case of Buddhist “monk” Thich Minh Tue, who went missing for a second time on June 12.
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The Vietnam Human Rights Network (VNHRN) will receive nominations for the 2024 Vietnam Human Rights Award (VNHRA) until September 30, 2024.
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An independent Buddhist monk whose barefoot pilgrimage across Vietnam became an internet sensation hasn’t contacted relatives in almost three weeks, and family members have asked police for help in locating him.
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