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With members in Vietnam and around the world, Viet Tan aims to establish democracy and reform Vietnam through peaceful means. viettan.org/en

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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Opening ceremony of the 18th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy with opening remarks from H.E. Peter MacDougall, Canadian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva. #GenevaSummit2026
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The signatories organizations believe that cutting funding would not only undermine press freedom but also harm U.S. economic and diplomatic interests, emphasizing that maintaining these platforms is vital for American global leadership and influence.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The join letter highlights their crucial role in promoting transparency, exposing human rights violations, and supporting democratic values, particularly in Vietnam.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
16 Vietnamese American organizations urge the U.S. President and congressional leaders to continue funding Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA), particularly their Vietnamese-language services. #WeAreRFA
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Dr. Phong Nguyen, Viet Tan's representative in Australia, and Milton Dick also exchanged views on how Australia can support the Vietnamese people on human rights issues and other important topics.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Excellent discussion between Ly Thai Hung, Viet Tan's chairman, and Australian Federal MP Milton Dick in Brisbane. They discussed the current situation in Vietnam, with a particular focus on our statement, 'A Half Century of Backwardness and the Path Forward'.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Congratulations to Gary Anandasangaree on your entry into the canadian government. We greatly appreciated your participation in Viet Tan's reception at the Canadian Parliament in October 2022. We wish you much success in your new role as Minister of Justice.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Félicitations à Rachel Bendayan pour votre entrée au gouvernement. Nous avons beaucoup apprécié votre participation à la réception de Viet Tan au Parlement Canadien en octobre 2022. Nous vous souhaitons beaucoup de réussites dans vos nouvelles fonctions.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Congratulations to Rachel Bendayan on your entry into the government. We greatly appreciated your participation in Viet Tan's reception at the Canadian Parliament in October 2022. We wish you much success in your new role as Minister of Immigration.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
... we encourage Vietnam to ratify the remaining Convention No 87 on The Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise. Full statement of 25 EU Members States: www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/... @eu_eeas
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
... and reprisals, and to release all those imprisoned for having peacefully expressed their views. We reiterate our call on Vietnam to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its abolition. While we welcome Vietnam’s ratification of ILO Conventions,...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
... which has a chilling effect on freedom of expression, assembly and association. We call on Vietnam to ensure that human rights and fundamental freedoms are protected so that civil society can participate freely in all aspects of development free of harassment, intimidation...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Thank you EU for raising Human Rights Violations in Vietnam in your statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council: "We remain deeply concerned over the arrests of human rights defenders as well as labour rights, climate and environmental experts in Vietnam,...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Dan Hoang, Viet Tan Executive Director, exposes how Hanoi censors freedom of expression online by blocking a thousand of Viet Tan's posts on Facebook during the first half of 2024. The Vietnamese regime cannot ban Facebook in Vietnam. It's up to Meta to cooperate or not.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Great workshop with Access Now, R3D, WHAT TO F!X, and Viet Tan at #RightsCon2025. Big tech companies must be more transparent, defend freedom of expression, and stop enabling authoritarian regimes.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Vietnam today. ##StandWithUkraine
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
#StandWithUkraine
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
As a NGO partner, Viet Tan is delighted to participate in the 17th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. In a few minutes, Nguyen Van Trang will speak about the transnational transhumance repression carried out by the Vietnamese regime against peaceful opponents. #GS2025
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It's an honor to meet Edmundo Gonzalez, president-elected of Venezuela and Garry Kasparov, Russian pro-democracy leader and former world chess champion.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Viet Tan Team at the opening session of the 17th Geneva Summit at Palais des Nations. It's always a great opportunity to meet tremendous human rights defenders in person or brave children advocating for their parents imprisoned in dictatorial regimes. #GS2025
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Chúc mừng năm mới. Mừng xuân Ất Tỵ. Happy Lunar New Year of the Snake. Bonne année du Serpent de bois. Wishing freedom, human rights, peace and joy to all who celebrate.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In 2015, as a representaive of the Vietnam Interfaith Council, pastor Nguyen Manh Hung testified before the U.S. Congress about the repression of religious freedom in Vietnam.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Pastor Nguyen Manh Hung was arrested on January 16, 2025, in Vietnam for criticizing the government on Facebook (art. 117). A pastor since 2011, Hung is a member of the Mennonite Church, which is independent of the official Protestant Church controlled by the Vietnamese regime.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
On this day 51 years ago, Communist China attacked on South Vietnam and occupied the Paracel Islands, which belong to Vietnam. For over half a century, Beijing has been aggressively using military force against its neighbors to seize islands that belong to other countries.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
... imprison activists belonging to any pro-democracy groups. After the Formosa toxic spill, Tran Thi Xuan participated in protests demanding compensation for those who suffered from the environmental disaster. She remains under house arrest for 5 more years.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Human rights defender Tran Thi Xuan was freed on January 17, 2025, after completing her sentence of 9 years in detention. A member of the Brotherhood for Democracy, Tran Thi Xuan was prosecuted for “carrying activities aimed to otherthrow the government,” an accusation used to...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
... at the request of the Vietnamese Ministry of Information. Link of the blocked post: facebook.com/share/v/1DsAfK… Pictures of Pham Minh Chinh attending this match are still visible on Vietnamese state media, without mentioning the price of his jacket. #freedomofexpression
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
On 21/12/2024, Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh attends a football match. On our Facebook page, Viet Tan points out that Pham Minh Chinh is wearing a Louis Vuitton jacket for 6000 USD while his monthly salary is 900 USD. The publication was blocked ...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Police violence is common in Vietnam, despite the country ratifying the international convention against torture in 2015. Wanted Vietnamese artist says police beat him (www.rfa.org/english/viet...)
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The Vietnamese regime uses political prisoners as hostages and bargaining chips with Western countries, imprisoning them at will and releasing them according to its interests.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Founder of the environmental NGO CHANGE, Hoang Thi Minh Hong was arrested in May 2023 and sentenced to three years in prison for "tax evasion." She was released on September 20, 2024, shortly before the arrival of Vietnamese President Tô Lâm in New York.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Environmental activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong arrived in the USA on December 26, 2024, as a political refugee. "I want to continue my environmental activism, but I can no longer do it in Vietnam. I have chosen a safer place where I can contribute effectively to society."
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Chris MacLeod pays tribute to Y Brec Bya "Y Krec has exhibited personal bravery in the face of horrific persecution. Not just against himself but against his community. He has been jailed multiple times simply for practicing his faith... "
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Canadian MP Judy Sgro on the Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award "We come together to honor Y Krec Bya, who has made an immense impact on the pursuit of a more just and equal society for Vietnam..."
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
December 10, on International Human Rights Day, let's support Vietnamese political prisoners and their families. #InternationalHumanRightsDay youtu.be/Zb-gNX0hgL4?...
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International Human Rights Day 2024- Quốc tế nhân quyền 10/12/2024 #vietnam #nhanquyen #xuhuong
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
... at home in his absence. It's also a way to celebrate the #InternationalHumanRightsDay Each year, the Vietnamese police seek to disturb this event, by preventing guests from going to Mr. Luong's home, sending a van to jam 5G and wifi connexions, cutting off the electricity.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
December 10, is also Mr. Le Dinh Luong's birthday. He is 59 and is currently the Vietnamese political prisoner with the longest prison sentence for his peaceful activism: 20 years. Each year on this date, his family organizes his birthday... #InternationalHumanRightsDay2024
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The award is named after activist Le Dinh Luong, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the communist regime for his efforts to protect the rights and dignity of the Vietnamese people. END.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Established in 2018, the Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award recognizes individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the advancement of human rights and national sovereignty in Vietnam.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
... the United Nations and human rights organizations, highlighting the dire state of religious freedom in Vietnam. The 2024 Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award ceremony will be held on December 14, 2024, in Toronto, Canada.
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
... he has remained steadfast in his fight for justice and religious freedom. Y Krec Bya has also worked to raise international awareness about human rights violations in Vietnam. He has guided church members in documenting abuses and submitting reports to foreign embassies, ...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
... harassment, and imprisonment. He has been arbitrarily detained multiple times by the authorities. First convicted in 2004 and sentenced to eight years in prison, he was recently sentenced to 13 years in prison in March 2024. Despite these hardships,...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The theme for this year’s award is Justice For The People, Equality For All Vietnamese. A member of the Ede ethnic group and a leader in the Evangelical Church of Christ of the Central Highlands, Y Krec Bya has endured years of persecution, including physical assaults, ...
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Viet Tan @viettan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Viet Tan is honored to present the 2024 Le Dinh Luong Human Rights Award to evangelist Y Krec Bya, a dedicated advocate for religious freedom and justice for Vietnam’s ethnic minorities for over two decades. viettan.org/en/viet-tan-...
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Michel Tran Duc @micheltd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Thank you @mongpalatino.bsky.social for your article and interview 🤝
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Michel Tran Duc @micheltd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
La 4ème table-ronde aborde l'expansionnisme chinois avec Marie Holzman (Solidarité Chine) en modératrice, Tenam (Étudiants pour un Tibet Libre), Alain Wang (Forum Chine-Europe), Dilnur Reyhan (Institut Ouïghour d'Europe) et Katia Buffetrille (École pratique des Hautes Études).
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Michel Tran Duc @micheltd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
La liberté d'expression est le thème de la 3ème table ronde. Animée par Pénélope Faulkner (VCHR), la parole est donnée à Thibault Bruttin (DG de RSF), Jérémy André (reporter au Point), Kak (président Cartooning for Peace), Maryse Artiguelong (LDH) et Michel Tran Duc (Viet Tan).
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