Today’s convictions of blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and his assistant Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms” are a shameful abdication of the country’s human rights obligations, Amnesty International has said. The convictions represent an outrageous contravention of the right to freedom of expression which Viet Nam is internationally obligated to uphold as a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
