Assembly of Vietnamese Youth for Democracy. Vietnam activist Nguyen Dan Que held for uprising call. 28 February 2011Last updated at 15:09 Following the fall of the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia, unrest has spread in the Middle East A veteran Vietnamese activist has been arrested after calling for a Middle East-style uprising in the country.
Nguyen Dan Que, 69, was later released but faces further questioning after an alleged internet appeal for the overthrow of the communist government. Category:Vietnamese dissidents. CNN and the ethics of Vietnamese dissident interviews - Matt Steinglass - Accumulating Peripherals. Last week CNN International ran a segment on Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, the Vietnamese blogger who goes by the name “Me Nam” (Mother Mushroom) and spent 10 days in jail last August after she criticised Chinese bauxite mining in Vietnam.
CNN correspondent Andrew Spencer interviewed the affecting Ms Quynh in Ho Chi Minh City. In a followup article on Thursday, CNN’s Pamela Boykoff wrote that before Ms Quynh drove her motorbike down from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City for the interview, the blogger emailed to ask: “Can you sure filming is OK and safe for us?” Communist Hackers Build Botnet to Attack Vietnamese Dissidents. A new trojan, created by a group of hackers sympathizing with the Vietnamese Communist Party, was specifically built to attack dissident websites and bloggers.
The malware, which has been dubbed Vecebot by Atlanta-based security vendor SecureWorks, was created and released on around October 13. The trojan drops several files called wuauclt.exe, wuauserv.dll and UsrClass.ini in the "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Windows Update Components" folder and installs itself as a service called Windows Update Components. The configuration file is downloaded from remote servers and defines parameters for HTTP DDoS against websites used by Vietnamese anti-establishment bloggers and civil rights activists. Freedom For Vietnam. Government of Free Vietnam. The Provisional Government of Free Vietnam (GFVN; Vietnamese: Chính Phủ Lâm Thời Việt Nam Tự Do), also known as the Federal Republic of Vietnam[citation needed], is an anti-communist political[1] organization headquartered in the American cities of Garden Grove, California and Missouri City, Texas.
History[edit] The Government of Free Vietnam is an anti-communist political organization that was established on April 30, 1995, by its founder Nguyen Hoang Dan. Leading Vietnamese Dissident Sentenced to Prison. Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam. Open Letter from the Free Vietnam Alliance. Que Me : Action for Democracy in Vietnam. PARIS, 26 February 2014 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) is deeply shocked by reports that dissident Nguyen Bac Truyen and his wife Bui Thi Kim Phuong were brutally beaten by Police as they made their way to the Australian Embassy in Hanoi on Monday 24 February.
They were invited by the Embassy to report on prior Police violence during a raid at their home in Dong Thap Province earlier in the month. (...) Continue Security Police in Hue harass and detain Buddhist Youth Leader Le Cong Cau PARIS, 20 February 2014 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) is informed that Security Police in Hue have again harassed and detained Buddhist youth leader Lê Công Cầu for interrogations and placed him under house arrest without any due process of law. He cannot leave his home without authorization except to buy food or medicine, and risks prosecution if he breaks this order.
Radio Free Vietnam. The Politics of Blogging in Vietnam. Sophie Richardson, Asia Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch spoke to The Fresh Outlook's Foreign Affairs reporter, Emma Wilson, about politically motivated arrests of bloogers in Vietnam.
Viet Tan - Vietnam Reform Party - viettan.org/en. Vietnam writer jailed for five years. A Vietnamese political commentator, Vi Duc Hoi, has been sentenced to a five-year prison term for posting essays on the internet.
The former high-ranking communist party member turned pro-democracy activist, wrote about land disputes between citizens and the government in a series of online articles that were critical of one-party rule. Shawn Crispin, a representative of the press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists, called on prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung "to release Hoi and all the other bloggers and journalists his government holds behind bars on bogus charges. " Vietnam: Overturn Conviction of Peaceful Democracy Activists.
(New York) - A Ho Chi Minh City appeals court should reverse the conviction of three high-profile democracy advocates at a hearing scheduled for May 11, 2010, Human Rights Watch said today.
Anything less than a complete reversal would be a new landmark of Vietnam's intolerance for political pluralism, Human Rights Watch said. The three activists - Le Cong Dinh, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, and Le Thang Long - were convicted in January 2010, on charges of attempting to "overthrow the government" under article 79 of Vietnam's penal code for supporting the formation of an opposition party to the Vietnam Communist Party. They were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 5 to 16 years.
Thuc, who maintained his innocence at the trial and claimed his confession was elicited under duress, received the harshest sentence. A fourth activist, Nguyen Tien Trung, did not file an appeal. VIETNAM: Pro-Democracy Activists’ Trial Sparks Flurry of Blogs. HO CHI MINH CITY, Jan 28, 2010 (IPS) - This month’s trial of four pro-democracy activists in this major Vietnamese city has generated a flurry of online posts from concerned citizens seeking to express their sentiments against the country’s communist regime though knowing full well the risks involved. "In the past months, similar trials have been staged to punish those who attempt to criticise the government even if it’s done peacefully," remarked blogger ‘Song Hung’ (which translates as ‘Living Heroically’).
The "accusation, verdict, sentences are decided beforehand" and neither the press nor family members of the accused are allowed to witness the trial, said Song. On Jan. 20, a court in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam’s largest city and business capital, charged four individuals with subversion – or attempting to "overthrow the government" or, more specifically, promoting human rights and a multi-party system. Vietnamese dissident Dr. Pham Hong Son receives harsh sentence. Vietnamese dissidents targeted by botnet attacks.
Cyberattacks were recently used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam with ties to China, according to Google and McAfee.
Malware that was disguised as a popular Vietnamese-language keyboard driver for Windows users was used to create a botnet, according to blog posts from Google's Neel Mehta and McAfee Chief Technical Officer George Kurtz. That botnet was then used to target blogs rallying against a bauxite mining project in Vietman, employing DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks to shut down those blogs, according to the posts. The two companies discovered the botnet and malware during an investigation into the causes of the cyberattacks leveled against Google and more than 30 U.S. companies late last year, which prompted Google's showdown with the Chinese government over censorship. Users running the Vietnamese character software are advised to update their virus definitions to determine if the malware is present on their system.
Vietnamese rights lawyer jailed over call for democracy. A dissident lawyer and son of a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader has been sentenced to seven years in prison and a further three years' house arrest for calling for an end to Vietnam's government and its one-party system.
Cu Huy Ha Vu was sentenced after a dramatic one-day trial in Hanoi in which one of his defence attorneys was ejected by the judge and his other three lawyers walk out in protest. Vu was left alone to defend himself and had several heated exchanges with the judge. The court convicted him of conducting propaganda against the state for calling for a multiparty government system, demanding the abolition of the Community party's leadership, defaming the state and distorting Vietnam's struggle for independence by calling the country's war against the US a civil war. Welcome to Democracy For Vietnam.