Tag: Human Rights Defenders
Thailand: Natural Fruit launches fresh defamation charges against Andy Hall
Thailand’s Natural Fruit Company has filed more criminal defamation charges against British human rights campaigner Andy Hall, in relation to a recent Youtube video posted by NGO Finnwatch.
The video, published on Sep. 18, features comments about the Thai company’s labor practices and features Andy Hall, Natural Fruit workers, European...
Vietnam Should Drop Politically Motivated Charges against Critics, Says HRW
The Vietnamese government should drop politically motivated charges against Le Quoc Quan, one of Vietnam’s most prominent and respected human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today. Vietnam’s donors should communicate serious concerns about Hanoi’s ongoing crackdown on rights defenders and bloggers, and publicly call for the unconditional release...
Vietnamese blogger and dissident jailed
Hanoi - Le Quoc Quan, 41, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax evasion, a charge many human rights groups say is trumped up.
Vietnam converted to the free market before 1991, but the repression of journalists in the country remains constant. The case against Quan was...
Vietnam: Lawyer latest victim of government crackdown
Vietnam must immediately release a prominent lawyer and human rights activist who was jailed on politically motivated charges today, Amnesty International said.
A court in Vietnam’s capital Ha Noi today sentenced Le Quoc Quan, one of the country’s best known dissidents, to 30 months in prison on trumped-up ‘tax evasion’...
Malaysia: Drop the charges against Lena Hendry
We are shocked that the Malaysian government, after the recent General Election, has resorted to charging human rights defender Lena Hendry on Sept 19, 2013 for being involved in the screening of a documentary “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka” at a human rights event in...
Viet Nam: UN rights office alarmed by conviction of renowned human rights lawyer
The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Viet Nam to review the conviction of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan, who was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $60,000 for alleged charges of tax evasion.
“We are alarmed by the fact that the conviction...
Vietnam Sentences Rights Lawyer to 30-Month Prison Term
A court in Vietnam on Wednesday convicted and sentenced prominent dissident Le Quoc Quan to 30 months in prison on tax evasion charges, which were rejected by the outspoken lawyer who said he would not be cowed into silence by the country’s authoritarian leaders.
Quan, a popular blogger and human...
Cambodia: Hope for the release of Cambodian protestor
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: As political protests continue in Cambodia, one woman remains a symbol of the Government's crackdown on critics which helped spark a voter backlash at the July election. Yorm Bopha is a young woman from Boeung Kak Lake, where residents have run a concerted campaign against the...
Vietnam’s suppression should not be rewarded
As China’s power grows, Vietnam has been working hard to build closer relations with the United States. Vietnam’s president visited the White House in July; it has encouraged U.S. involvement in territorial disputes between China and several Asian countries, including Vietnam; and it is proposing to join the Trans-Pacific...
Philippines: Labour leader disappeared after he was followed by persons believed to be military personnel in Cavite
On 27 August 2013 Benjamen Villeno, a full-time staff member of the Organized Labor Association in Line Industries and Agriculture – May First Movement (Kilusang Mayo Uno) (OLALIA-KMU) went to Cavite to perform his task as a labour organiser. On the same day, Villeno sent an SMS to his...
