Arbitrary arrests and prosecutions of human rights defenders significantly increased, with a record number of prisoners of conscience documented. Individuals who expressed themselves online were particularly targeted. Pro-democracy activists, independent journalists, authors and publishers faced...

Thai authorities must not forcibly return a Montagnard and Ede Indigenous human rights activist to Viet Nam where he would be at severe risk of torture, Amnesty International said ahead of his extradition hearing next week. Y Quynh Bdap, a UN-recognized refugee who has been in Thailand since 2018,...

Amnesty International has today launched its global website as an .onion site on the Tor network, giving users greater access to its ground-breaking work exposing and documenting human rights violations in areas where government censorship and digital surveillance are rife. In recent years, a...

Ahead of an appeal hearing on Thursday (13 July 2023) for Truong Van Dung, a human rights defender who was convicted for “propaganda against the government” and sentenced to six years in March 2023 solely for freely expressing his views, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Campaigns...

Vietnamese authorities must immediately drop ‘propaganda against the state’ charges against activist Bui Tuan Lam, who faces up to 12 years in prison for a number of critical, satirical and other social media posts on human rights issues in Viet Nam, Amnesty International Interim Deputy Regional...

Today marks the second anniversary since ASEAN agreed on the Five Point Consensus in response to the military coup in Myanmar. The Myanmar military has ignored calls from the international community to stop the violence. Moreover, since the coup, the Myanmar military has committed war crimes and...

We are writing to express our concern about the ongoing persecution of Mr Nguyen Lan Thang, a journalist, and we demand that he be released immediately, and all charges dropped against him. Mr Nguyen Lan Thang is a victim of persecution by the Vietnamese government and has been criminally charged...

Ahead of the trial of independent journalist and activist Nguyen Lan Thang, who was detained on “anti-state” charges in July 2022 after reporting on protests and human rights violations in Viet Nam, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns Ming Yu Hah said: “For more than a...

UN General Assembly resolution 60/251 requires that members elected to the Human Rights Council (HRC) uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights. We, the undersigned organizations, have held longstanding and publicly expressed concerns about the state of human...

Ahead of an appeal hearing on Thursday for Pham Doan Trang, an independent journalist and human rights defender who was sentenced on propaganda charges to nine years imprisonment in December 2021, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research Emerlynne Gil said:  “There is no doubt...

Ahead of her upcoming trial on 4 November, 28 human rights organizations condemn the ongoing arbitrary detention of independent journalist and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang, and call on the Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges against...

Prominent human rights defender and advocate Nguyen Thuy Hanh, was arrested on 7 April 2021 and charged under Article 117 of the Criminal Code for “opposing the State of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam”, carrying a potential prison sentence of up to 20 years. Nguyen Thuy Hanh, through the...

Responding to the arbitrary arrest of prominent Vietnamese human rights defender Nguyen Thuy Hanh by police in Ha Noiyesterday morning, Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns, said:  “The arrest of Nguyen Thuy Hanh is a blatant and politically-motivated attempt...