Viet Nam: All prisoners of conscience must be immediately and unconditionally released

Amnesty International’s Secretary General and the Directors of offices in Australia, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and the USA have called on Viet Nam’s National Day amnesty to include all prisoners of conscience.
The 51 prisoners of conscience named by Amnesty International includes individuals imprisoned solely for the peaceful exercise of their rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association. The list includes blogger Ta Phong Tan, Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly and blogger and IT entrepreneur Tran Huynh Duy Thuc.

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