Tag: Nguyễn Trung Tôn

Vietnamese government urged to cease persecution of religious minorities ahead of UN review

January 22, 2019 Human rights, Minorities, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Nguyen Van Dai, Religion Law, Vietnam

Vietnamese human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, 48, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in April. (Photo: -/AFP/Getty Images)

Religious freedom advocates have called on the Vietnamese government to cease persecution of Christians and members of other religious minorities, including torture. Their calls come ahead of the UN Review of the country’s human rights records in Geneva today, 22 January. Non-governmental organisations said in their submission to the UN . . . Read More

Vietnamese Christian rights defender exiled to Germany after release

June 11, 2018 Vietnam Exile, Hanoi, Human rights, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Nguyen Van Dai, Vietnam

Vietnam has released a Christian human rights lawyer and his assistant – both of whom were given long prison sentences in April – and sent them to Germany. No statement was issued by the government on the release of Nguyen Van Dai, 48, and his assistant, Le Thu Ha, on . . . Read More

Vietnam jails Christian rights defender for 15 years

April 5, 2018 Vietnam Hanoi, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Nguyen Van Dai, Vietnam

Christian human rights' lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and his assistant were released and sent to Germany last week. (Photo: Open Doors International)

Christian human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years today, 5 April, for activities “aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration”, as Reuters reported. His wife, Vu Minh Khanh, said she was “very disappointed” but that Dai will “continue to fight and will appeal the verdict”. Five other . . . 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

Vietnamese pastor beaten and left naked on road

March 3, 2017 Vietnam Hà Tĩnh, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Vietnam

A Vietnamese pastor and his colleague were abducted and violently attacked on 27 February during a visit to meet fellow activists in central Vietnam. Nguyễn Trung Tôn and his colleague Nguyễn Viết Tứ were beaten, stripped, tied up and left naked beside a mountain road in a remote area of . . . Read More

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