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Rights activists and relatives of political prisoners in Vietnam called this week for sanctions to be imposed on Vietnamese officials deemed responsible for torture and other abuses in the country’s jails, as criticism of Hanoi’s repression of critics and dissenters mounts around the world.
The call comes as authorities in Hanoi prepare for the Jan. 25 launch of the 13
th ruling Communist Party Congress, cited by activists and rights experts as the reason Vietnam’s already low tolerance of dissent deteriorated sharply in 2020 with the round-up of independent journalists, publishers, and Facebook commentators.
Speaking in interviews with RFA, rights workers and family members of prisoners called for international action to be taken against Vietnamese authorities held responsible for suppressing dissent, with the possible enforcement of sanctions and travel bans under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act a U.S. law named after a Russia
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18/12/2020 09:46 GMT+7
Former Hanoi chairman expelled from Party
The Party Central Committee on December 17 expelled former Hanoi chairman Nguyen Duc Chung from the Party over his serious violations.
The decision was announced at the 14th plenum of the Party Central Committee, the local media reported.
Early this month, the Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission proposed the Politburo and the Party Central Committee expel Chung from the Party, who was being prosecuted, detained and suspended from Party activities at the time.
According to the Inspection Commission, Chung seriously violated Party regulations and the State law on protecting State secrets as well as regulations on activities that Party members are banned from, damaging the prestige of the Party and himself.
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13/12/2020 09:36 GMT+7
Vietnamese Facebook users have the habit of publishing their personal information, which has lent a hand to automatic programs to collect users’ information.
Colonel Truong Son Lam, Deputy Director of Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, said protecting personal information is an extremely urgent and important issue but it is still a new and difficult problem for Vietnam.
One of the most important things to do soon is setting up a legal framework.