Rights group urges Vietnam to release activist amid escalating crackdown on dissent

Imprisoned Vietnam activist charged for writing ‘down with communism’

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Prominent Vietnamese land rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong is facing a second charge of anti-state propaganda after prison guards found a document in his cell that said, “down with communism,” his wife told Radio Free Asia. Phuong is already serving a 10-year prison sentence related to his dissemination of information about a 2020 land dispute where police …

Rights group urges Vietnam to release activist amid escalating crackdown on dissent

Human Rights Watch on Friday called for the immediate release of Trinh Ba Phuong, a prominent Vietnamese human rights activist, condemning what it described as an intensifying campaign by the Vietnamese government to silence peaceful dissent. Phuong, who is already serving a 10-year prison sentence under Article 117 of Vietnam’s penal code for criticizing the state, now faces new charges under the same provision after prison authorities accused …

Jailed Land Rights Activist Faces New Charges for Anti-State Notes in Prison

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