Thứ Hai, 8 tháng 12, 2014

24 Organizations of the civil society's message for International Day of Human Rights, dated 12/10/2014

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24 Organizations of the civil society's message for International Day of Human Rights, dated 12/10/2014

POST DATE: 12/02/2014 , MỤC: - TIN NỔI BẬT, PHÓNG SỰ

VRNs (02/12/2014) - Saigon - 24 civil society organizations in Vietnam, was first sent to the public Message on International Human Rights Day, on 12/10/2014.

The message says: "More than ever, we urge the United Nations; People, parliamentary and democratic governments in the world; international organizations advocate honored around the universal values of human rights; community Vietnam abroad, please let all stand fully support the struggle for human rights justice, freedom and democracy of our nation Vietnam.

Congress and Democratic governments around the world, especially the United States, have the sanctions if the ruling communist Vietnam continued human rights violations by law HR 4254 (the bill's sanctions VN Human Rights), by CPC list (countries need special attention to human rights and religious), and by elimination VN from TPP (trans partnership Agreement Pacific) ".

MESSAGE FROM VIETNAM CIVIL SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 10-12-2014

Authorities communist party dictatorship in Hanoi has restricted or deprived of all human rights of all people of Vietnam which has been set forth in the International Bill of Rights and two International Covenants on civil rights, political, cultural, economic and social, which Vietnam has signed and pledged to observe. They restriction or deprivation in terms of theory (the law) and in terms of actual (act).

Authorities VN gave a Constitution and laws based solely according to the Communist Party and only serves to benefit the Communist Party. They won a monopoly on politics and education, privileged culture and economy. They gross violation of basic human rights of people VN such as land property rights, freedom of information and expression, freedom of religion and thought, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of movement and residence, the right to physical, residential security and communications industry.

Authorities VN currently detained hundreds of people fighting for human rights, democracy and religion, but they are falsely that these people accused of criminal law violation, infringement of national security and destabilize society, while they really just are prisoners of conscience.

For many years, especially in 2014, the security agencies Vietnam sudden increase implementing the behavior of thugs and use of limbs thugs to attack the system, brutally suppressed the active state for human rights, democracy and religion.

First of all humanity is solemnly commemorate International Human Rights Day 10-12-2014, CSOs Vietnam strongly voiced:

1 / Oppose every infringement of human rights of the communist government of Vietnam on the law as well as in behavior.

2 / Ask the Vietnam Communist authorities revise the Constitution and laws of the People's expectations and consistent with international human rights standards.

3 / Request communist government of Vietnam to release immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners of conscience.

4 / Ask the communist government of Vietnam to immediately stop using violence against activists for human rights, democracy and religion;

5 / Request communist government of Vietnam to respect the basic human rights:

- Farmers must be private ownership of land, must be adequately compensated when requisitioned plowing fields, farmers should be entitled to make their own associations.

- Workers must be paid a living wage, to have the proper working conditions of human dignity, shall be entitled to make their own unions.

- Parents and young people should be entitled to have an independent education system, human, liberal, non-political; must be supported to study where to choose.

- All religions have freedom of organization and independent living, should have the right to educate young people and spread the moral right to society.

- Every company private enterprise business must be free, fair competition and state bank loans easily in a market economy literally.

- All citizens have the right to establish and organize political parties and civil society, freedom of information and expression, freedom of residence and travel (including off and on the water), freedom to choose their representatives, the right to participate in national machinery not as a communist Party member.

- All people should be entitled to a security environment and healthy living: clean water, clean air, clean food; escape the threat of flooding streets, red mud bauxite, hydro flood.

- All prisoners must be treated with dignity: no torture, exploitation of labor, must be fed, medical treatment and meet the needs of emotional, cultural or religious ; when finish sentenced no probation and no discrimination.

More than ever, we urge the United Nations; People, parliamentary and democratic governments in the world; international organizations advocate honored around the universal values of human rights; community Vietnam abroad, please let all stand fully support the struggle for human rights justice, freedom and democracy of our nation Vietnam.

Vietnam dated 01-12-2014, International Human Rights Day 10-12-2014

CSOs co-sign:

1. Bach Dang Giang foundation. Represented by Mr. Pham Ba Hai.

2. Civil Society Forum. Representative: Dr. Nguyen Quang A

3. Brothers Democratic Association. Representative: Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai

4. Lutheran Church Fellowship Vietnam-US. Represented by: Ms Nguyen Hoang Hoa.

5. Hoa Hao Buddhist Church Pure. Representative: Mr. Le Quang Liem

6. Cao Dai Church transmission. Avatar: The Promise CTS Africa, Bach Phung Nguyen, Nguyen Kim Lan.

7. Independent Mennonite Church. Representation: The Pastors Nguyen Manh Hung, Huynh Thuc Khai, Pham Ngoc Thach.

8. Former Political Prisoners and religious VN. Representative: Mr. Nguyen Bac Truyen.

9. The Association for Solidarity of Agriculture Vietnam. Representative: Mr. Nguyen Mai.

10. Association for the Protection of Religious Freedom. Representative: Ms. Ha Thi Van

11. The gourd mutual affection Association. Representative: Mr. Nguyen Le Hung

12. Former Prisoner of Conscience. Representative: Dr. Nguyen Dan Que.

13. VN Independent Journalists Association. Representative: Dr. Pham Chi Dung

14. The Association for Women's Rights. Representation: The Huynh Thuc Vy Tran Thi Hai, Tran Thi Nga

15. The Protestant Church Chuong Bo. Represented by: Ms Le Quang Du

16. 8406 Bloc. Liberal Democrat Representative: Engineer Do Nam Hai.

17. Labour Vietnam. Representative: Ms. Do Thi Minh Hanh.

18. Vietnam Blogger Network. Representative: Ms. Nguyen Hoang Vi.

19. Group Bauxite Vietnam. Representative: Prof. Pham Xuan Yem & Prof. Nguyen Hue Chi

20. Father Nguyen Kim Dien Group. Representative: Father Phan Van Loi.

21. Vietnam Road Movement . Representative: Mr. Tran Van Huynh.

22. Petitioners Solidarity fought Movement . Representative: Ms. Tran Ngoc Anh.

23. Sangha Buddhist Church VNTN. Representative: Ht Thich Khong Tanh, Tt Thich Vien Hy.

24. Office of Justice Peace Redemptorists. Represented by Rev. Dinh Huu Thoai.

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Thứ Năm, 4 tháng 12, 2014

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OF THE TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST STATE IN VIETNAM ...?

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Do Minh Tuyen

Religious Freedom of people in Vietnam once again continued to be brutally trampled in Vietnam ... through prohibition and hinder legitimate religious activities of people. The Department of Home Affairs Kon Tum Province Vietnam signed the letter refusing to allow the Archdiocese of Kon Tum organizations celebrate Mary Immaculate Mary statue in Mang Den in Kon Plong district, Kon Tum province on two days 09 and 12.10.2014 is publicly challenging behavior seriously and violently trample on the religious beliefs of the people of Vietnam.

Throughout the years, government leaders at all levels in Vietnam from time to time sought to intervene in the internal affairs of religion violently... as well as carrying out terrorist activities to spiritual, harassed and roughed many Catholics and adherents of various religions while people are executed their religious beliefs and their religious activities. Besides, the government of communist Vietnam from time to time to mobilize the kind of police, civil defense forces and even components gangland thugs ... use of force to hinder people and dignitaries for the religious exercise of Religious Freedom ... A freedom fundamental human Rights legal and legitimacy of the people, which has been recognized, regulated and protected. by the law, Constitution of the State and the International law also

Going against all international commitments on human rights ... behave rudely and in contrast to the rules which have been recognized and published in the constitution of the State relating to Freedom of Belief people ... the Communist dictatorship government of Vietnam had serious challenge public opinion at home and abroad ... and completely destroy all remaining trust from people. In the so dire of Vietnam country today ... as also before the current threat of aggression from aggressor China ... the only mainstay of the leaders of Vietnam communist State right is the synergy of all classes of the people of Vietnam, that is not from the shielding of the expansionism aggressor China ... unfortunately, the totalitarian communist leaders in Vietnam not only did not know taking advantage that ruthlessly to shake off ... when leaving away from people in his country. Denying Religious beliefs of the people ... a harbinger of the collapse that is hard to avoid for the dictatorship communist regime in Vietnam.

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Department of the Interior Kontum banned Bishop celebrated at Our Lady of Mang Den

POST DATE: 12/01/2014,

VRNs(12/01/2014) - Yesterday, Sunday 11/30/2014 Mr. Pham Van Long, head of the Religious Board, the Department of the Interior Kontum signed letter No. 82 / BTG-NV disagree bishopric Kontum to organize celebration of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception at the Mang Den Mary statue, Kon Plong district, in 2 days 09 and 12/10/2014.

Previously, on 11/05/2014 Kontum Bishop has sent letter to the Kontum province to announce for this ceremony. However, the Department of the Interior they thought they have right of approval or not, so answered by bureaucratic writing and this authoritarian.

This event reminiscent immortal words of Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, with the MPC. Hanoi: "Religious freedom is a right, not a favor to ask or give.". In Vietnam, under the communist regime, the law created to control and interfere in the internal religious activities, not to make it for people to practice freedom of religion.

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Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 11, 2014

ATTACK AND ASSAULT brutally JOURNALIST TRUONG MINH DUC ... BINH DUONG POLICE IN PARTICULAR AND POLICE OF VIETNAM IN GENERAL...WHAT DID THEY SHOW ...?

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Do Minh Tuyen

Eight police services in Binh Duong Vietnam brutally assaulted journalist Truong Minh Duc in last November just one of a myriad of prominent cases in Vietnam in recent years that showing the brutal behavior and immorality of the Police brance in Vietnam. Especially for the Democratic activist and human rights ... the Blogger and Journalist dissidents ... the Religious Activist ... activities for Civil Society and the petitioners who're appropriated assets, land, farms and homes by the State government of Vietnam Communist .

As a single tool and the most effective in protecting and maintaining the existence for the communist dictatorship in Vietnam today, the Police branch of Vietnam always tell myself and act with the motto: "Remain the party ... also remaining them "so all attitudes, opinions and behavior of all of them extremely brutal and almost lost all humanity ... in contrast to the spirit of nature and the inherent responsibility of police branch in preserving and maintaining social order and safety ... and thoroughly protect property and life for the people. Everyone of us, we sure have not forgotten our sense of pity when seeing some of Hanoi police heartlessly kicked on Mr. Nguyen Chi Duc's face, a Communist Party member of Vietnam when he with the Vietnamese people down the road for demonstrations to show their patriotism opposed the aggression and invasion of the Chinese communist government on 17 July, 2011. What makes the Police branch of Vietnam becomes brutal and behave cruel immoral like that ...?

The only reason for the extravagant behavior from police of Vietnam despite the law ... and even despite the human moral conscience... that is the backed and cover tolerated by the government ... so although violate the law often does not get sanction or punishment. Usually when falling into the too obvious cases can not cover up is those police who's mistake themselves if be handled is also by a form of internal processing, Administrative processing or warning. ..v ... v ... rarely be punished and dealt with strictly in accordance with the law ... So the police branch of Vietnam became increasingly aggressive and pointlessly cruel. No other countries in the world where the law enforcement officers and component of hooligans behave so like each other that people sometimes witnessing is difficult to distinguish who is the police and who is the gangsters, the bad part scum of society. Everyone when there is the need to step into the police office, the first thing that greeted their eyes is the board's Rules and 6 issues that Uncle Ho taught ... but the brutal barbaric behavior of the police Force in Vietnam today and for many years ... made people think and be skeptical about the so-called "living, learning and working follow the moral example of Ho Chi Minh ...?

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Posted on 25-11-2014 15:25 Modification Date 25-11-2014

RSF condemns assault on journalist Truong Minh Duc

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Journalist Truong Minh Duc - DR

Reporters Without Borders - RSF based in Paris, condemned the assault on independent journalist Truong Minh Duc in early November in Thu Dau Mot. This journalist is being currently in critical condition.

In an announcement made today, 11/25/2014, Reporters Without Borders said it had been "shaken» by the brutal assault on journalist Truong Minh Duc on the morning of 11/02/2014.

The statement said, "eight police were ambushed, this journalists had to run into a cafe to flee, but never made it. According to witnesses, the police have continued to use helmets to hit Truong Minh Duc, even though he was unconscious ".

According to a relative of journalist Truong Minh Duc, he almost died before being brought into the emergency in Hoan My Hospital, where he continues to be special care. The wife of journalist Truong Minh Duc said her husband identified in the assault group having the police of Binh Duong province. The cause of the attack remains unclear.

In a statement, Mr. Benjamin Ismail, in charge of the Asia-Pacific region by Reporters Without Borders, declared: "The violence of the police aimed at bloggers and citizen journalists are becoming popular and continues to grow in all regions of Vietnam. Almost certainly this is not a single act, but a persecution was carried out on the orders of the Communist Party of Vietnam. »

RSF called on the international community to quickly take measures to put pressure on the government of Vietnam to stop persecuting a systematic to those who protects freedom of the press and freedom of information ".

The organization also recalled that on 11/05/2014, even the French consul in Saigon also has been assaulted by Vietnamese police when he came to help blogger Pham Minh Hoang who was being harassed by plainclothes police and thugs.

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Thứ Bảy, 22 tháng 11, 2014

A FREE PRESS FOR VIETNAM ... ?

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Do Minh Tuyen

Freedom of the Press, one of the fundamental human rights legally justifiable of people so long have always been the concern of the people of Vietnam and abroad in particular ... and for those who love freedom and Democracy in over the world today in general. Speaking to the press freedom in Vietnam today ... many people in Vietnam so far still surprised and laments when a series of reporter Journalist of the major newspapers in the State of Vietnam as the Thanh nien and the Tuoi tre Newspapers ... v ... v ... and those who own personal blog sites such as Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu plow) Ta Phong Tan (Blog of Justice and truth) Nguyen Huu Vinh (Anh Ba Sam blog) ... etc ... were in turn imprisoned for daring to write and publish information relating to corrupt government officials and the rallies from the people express their patriotism against aggression and invasion of China to Vietnam ...?

A very paradoxical that the people of Vietnam have experienced over the years ... it is the "Words are not the same acts" of state leaders in communist Vietnam by imprisonment two famous journalists who're combating corruption, Nguyen Viet Chien of the Thanh nien newspaper and Nguyen Van Hai of the Tuoi tre newspaper ... when these people reported the self that serves the corruption (PMU18) of government officials in 2008. in addition, those who love Freedom and Democracy and have struggled for human rights of people in Vietnam have in turn and turns be harassed, repressed pressure violently beaten and ultimately prosecuted, jailed illegally because of their high ideal in helping to create a society that is fair and clean ...?

Through articles published in The New York Times on December 19-11-2014 of Mr. Nguyen Cong Khe, former Chief Editor of the Thanh nien newspaper in Vietnam, called for a background Press Freedom for Vietnam .. . that all the people of Vietnam we fully agree before a public call for his practical nature. However, what the people of Vietnam and abroad and the international community expect from the communist government of Vietnam is not only a platform of Press Freedom... but Freedom in all aspects of how including Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of assembly ... v ... v ... that's exactly what really helps prerequisite to social stability and national development. To be Vietnamese, nobody do not wish the very best to their homeland ... and yet, full of unruly behavior, irrational, and dubious from the leaders of communist state and the current authorities in Vietnam ... was almost twisting all the people's confidence in the leadership of their State. Anti-corruption ...? Strictly respect human rights ...? it just sham democracy acts that gender ruling Communist leaders in Vietnam so long to use aim demagogic ... to deception and sophistry for their misconduct in public. Press freedom and freedom in all fields must quickly be implemented thoroughly and properly ... that's true wishes of the people of Vietnam ... and also the only way to help the Regime in the existence and survival of the state of the economy weak and the collapse of the country today ... as well as for the threat of invasion from the Northern ambitious expansionist neighboring country China .

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A Free Press for Vietnam

By NGUYEN CONG KHENOV. 19, 2014

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — The Vietnamese government must allow the media to operate freely. This is essential to the country’s continued economic and political liberalization, and to the Communist Party’s efforts to regain the support of the people, which it needs for the sake of its own survival.

Vietnam’s media landscape has changed significantly during the past five years, and the Communist Party has lost much of its control over the industry, with disastrous consequences.

There are now hundreds of official media outlets, all owned by the government, and all controlled by the Ministry of Information and Communications and its local counterparts. All senior editors are appointed, after careful vetting, by the government and the Communist Party.

Vietnam also has some quasi-private outlets, which produce TV shows, host online news portals and publish local versions of foreign magazines, like Esquire and Cosmopolitan. But private operators are required to partner with a state entity, which means that they, too, must be mindful of censorship.

As the government continues to expand news categories it considers to be sensitive — relations with China, land disputes, the medical conditions of top leaders — many media companies are providing increasingly sanitized news. Readers, particularly young ones, have deserted them in droves, looking for less propaganda. Both circulation and the advertising revenues of the two most popular official dailies, Tuoi Tre and Thanh Nien, have dropped by almost two-thirds since 2008, according to highly placed sources at these newspapers. Other publications have turned tabloid, featuring sensational scandals in an attempt to stem the reader hemorrhage.

Instead the Vietnamese public is turning to foreign news sources, which are easily accessible online. Facebook and social media have also blossomed: Some intellectuals and former party members have their own blogs on which they openly criticize the government, attracting tens of thousands of visitors every day. Although the government has imposed Internet firewalls, workarounds are well-known and readily available. Vietnam has one of the highest rates of Internet penetration among countries with comparable per capita incomes.

But the emergence of alternative sources of information is a problem in its own right, because these are not uniformly reliable. The public, including the intelligentsia, has grown so distrustful of state media and the state itself that it is too quick to accept accounts criticizing the government as true, even when they are not well substantiated.

A slew of books has been published in recent years claiming to reveal state secrets on virtually every major national issue: from the origins of the Communist Party to the epic battle against the French at Dien Bien Phu, from China’s real designs on Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh’s private life. The recent “Den Cu,” by Tran Dinh, questions Uncle Ho’s nationalist credentials. It also claims he was directly involved in the forced land redistribution program of 1953-56, which killed more than 170,000 people, and may have attended the show trial of some wealthy landowners.

The party and the government tend not to refute such allegations. Instead, they insist on maintaining outdated forms of control and micromanaging trivial issues, like the depth of the decolletage on singers’ dresses. This reflects their lack of confidence, and it undermines the party’s credibility, including on vital national interests, like combating corruption and curbing China’s regional ambitions.

Corruption is a major issue, contributing to Vietnam’s huge public-sector debt, high rates of nonperforming loans and inefficient state enterprises. (Public debt is rapidly approaching 65 percent of G.D.P., the limit set by the government.) And the party, the government and Parliament have declared that fighting corruption is a top priority. But after so many years of media control, people have grown too wary of the authorities to give them any credit. When senior officials and corporate chieftains are arrested for graft, the public assumes it is the result of factional score-settling.

The lack of media transparency has also been a problem in Vietnam’s tussle with our centuries-old enemy, China. In May, the Chinese government moved an oil-drilling rig off the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea to inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. Yet the Vietnamese government’s initial response struck many of us as meek: The foreign minister called the move “brazen” at first, but then the ministry spokesman simply repeated over and over again that “China must withdraw from Vietnam’s undisputed maritime territory.”

Reporting by the mainstream media was also muted, which meant the public discussion was dominated by the extreme nationalism of anti-China demonstrators and virulent online petitions by academics and former officials, including a Vietnamese ambassador to China. Speculation ran wild on blogs that some untoward deal had been struck, with frequent reference to the infamous Chengdu meeting, a secret encounter in 1990 during which the Vietnamese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Party are thought to have undertaken a mutual protection pact that involved making Vietnam more dependent on China economically and politically.

Alternative sources of information are not the antidote to state control of the mainstream media. They are welcome, but they cannot be relied upon alone. Especially in Vietnam’s existential fight against corruption and China, the traditional Vietnamese media must be allowed to freely disseminate timely and impartial information. Vietnam has many experienced journalists who have been cowed by censorship for too long and want nothing more but to do their jobs properly.

The Constitution already provides for full press freedom; it must be implemented. Opening up the media would help our leaders win back the trust of the people, which they need if they hope to advance Vietnam’s main goals. Freedom of the press is good for the country, and it is good for the regime.

Nguyen Cong Khe, founder of the news daily Thanh Nien and formerly its editor in chief for 23 years, is the chairman of a privately owned media corporation that operates the online news portal www.motthegioi.vn. This article was translated by Nguyen Trung Truc from the Vietnamese.

A version of this op-ed appears in print on November 20, 2014, in The International New York Times. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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