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Ahead of Vietnam’s One-Party Elections, the State Punishes Online Calls for Democracy To secure its monopoly on power, the Communist Party bends the rules, bans the competition, and dominates the digital landscape. By May 21, 2021 Advertisement Unlike its counterpart in China, the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) has not felt the need to banish popular U.S.-based social media platforms from its domestic internet. In fact, Vietnam is home to the seventh-largest population of Facebook users in the world. Yet the party has been able to maintain control over th...

Facebook Detained Vietnamese land-rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong was returned this week to his former detention camp from a mental hospital in Hanoi, where he was sent for evaluation after refusing to cooperate with police investigators, according to his wife. Phuong had previously refused to speak to or look at police officers during questioning, leading to a 30-day assessment of his mental health, and was sent back to detention on Tuesday, his wife Do Thi Thu told RFA on April 1. “I called investigator Nguyen The Bac this morning, and he told me that my husband had been tra...

1 April 2021, 11:18 UTC Vietnamese authorities have arrested and charged two independent candidates for National Assembly election Intimidation and harassment on the rise ahead of 23 May vote The Vietnamese authorities must end their crackdown on independent election candidates and critical voices, said Amnesty International today ahead of the country’s National Assembly elections scheduled to take place on 23 May 2021.  In recent weeks, authorities have arrested and charged two independent candidates and one medical doctor under Article 117 of the Criminal Code for “making, storing, o...

13th Party Central Committee makes debut 11:34 | 01/02/2021 The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) ended on a high note at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on February 1. Members of the newly-elected Party Central Committee make debut on the last day of the 13th National Party Congress on February 1. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi – The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) ended on a high note at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on February 1. On behalf of the Presidium, Nguyen Thanh Hai, member of th...