Tag: Maria Tran Thi Nga

Contrasting freedoms for Vietnam’s Christians

March 27, 2018 Vietnam Evangelical Church of Vietnam, Hmong, Ho Chi Minh City, Maria Tran Thi Nga, Religion Law, Vietnam

The growth of Christianity in Vietnam has been charted by World Magazine, which says religious freedoms enjoyed by those living in cities are in stark contrast to the country’s rural areas. Catholicism has a centuries-old history in Vietnam, but Protestant churches only sprang up last century, the Christian publication notes, . . . Read More

Vietnam: 2017 was ‘worst year’ for dissidents

March 8, 2018 Vietnam Maria Tran Thi Nga, Vietnam

Vietnam’s communist government was criticised again this week over its treatment of dissidents. In its latest report, published on 5 March, the Former Vietnamese Prisoners of Conscience (FVPOC) said the 43 people arrested in 2017 for challenging the state was more than double the combined number detained in 2016 (11) . . . Read More

New report slams Vietnam’s human-rights record

March 1, 2018 Vietnam Maria Tran Thi Nga, Vietnam

A new report paints an abysmal picture of Vietnam’s human-rights record, documenting “one of the worst crack-downs in recent years against rights defenders, bloggers and religious followers”. Published by the Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), the report says “arrests and harsh convictions of dissidents are multiplying with frightening . . . Read More

Vietnam: Catholic blogger’s 9-year prison sentence upheld

January 3, 2018 Vietnam Catholics, Hanoi, Maria Tran Thi Nga, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Vietnam

Catholic rights activist and blogger Maria Tran Thi Nga has had her nine-year prison sentence upheld following an appeal hearing at the Supreme Court in the capital city, Hanoi, reports Asia News. Only three of Nga’s lawyers were able to attend the hearing. Her husband and family members were detained . . . Read More

Vietnam told to release prisoners of conscience

November 9, 2017 Vietnam Human rights, Maria Tran Thi Nga, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Nguyen Van Oai, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Freedom of expression in Vietnam is not a given. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A group of 17 NGOs has called for the release of detained bloggers and human rights activists in Vietnam, the country Amnesty said last year had the highest number of prisoners of conscience in Southeast Asia. In July, there were more than 90 prisoners of conscience in Vietnam’s jails, according . . . Read More

Vietnam arrests four more human rights activists

August 2, 2017 Vietnam Maria Tran Thi Nga, Nguyen Cong Chinh, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Nguyen Van Dai, Vietnam

Four more activists were arrested in Vietnam on Sunday (30 July), the latest in a string of arrests seen as part of a general crackdown on freedom of expression, assembly and religion. Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton, Nguyen Bac Truyen, head of an association of former religious and political prisoners, activist . . . Read More

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