Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam
This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s concerns regarding the human rights situation in Vietnam. Since its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2019, Vietnam’s human rights situation deteriorated significantly. The Communist Party of Vietnam seeks to maintain its monopoly of power by arbitrarily arresting and prosecuting people in unfair trials for publishing or posting critical views of the government, joining independent organizations, and advocating for political reforms. Beyond criminalizing free speech and peaceful public assembly, and severely restricting other p...