- Target:
- The Honourable President and mambers of The Australian Senate in Parliament Assembled
- Region:
- United States of America
Human Rights in VietNam.
In 2009, Le Cong Dinh, a lawyer who several years previously had acted for the government in a successful case against American catfish farmers, was arrested and charged with the capital crime of subversion; several of his associates were also arrested. Many Western governments condemned the move, and human rights groups alleged that the arrest was due to Le Cong Dinh's support for freedom of speech. Amnesty International named him and his arrested associates to be prisoners of conscience.
Vietnam currently holds several other individuals in detention that Amnesty International considers to be prisoners of conscience: Cù Huy Hà Vũ, convicted of "conducting propaganda against the state" for giving interviews to foreign press; Nguyen Dan Que, convicted of "red-handed keeping and distributing documents" calling for the overthrow of the government;and Roman Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly (also known as Father Thaddeus) detained for "spreading propaganda against the state." Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of all three men.
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The Promote Human Rights in VietNam petition to The Honourable President and mambers of The Australian Senate in Parliament Assembled was written by nguoi vo danh and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.