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Vietnamese Government to Bring to Trial American Activist Nguyen Quoc Quan and Two Other Democracy Promoters
Communist authorities in Vietnam will bring to trial American citizen Nguyen Quoc Quan, Thai resident Somsak Khunmi and Vietnamese citizen Nguyen The Vu on May 13, 2008. On November 17, 2007, security police in Saigon arrested members and supporters of Viet Tan as they were preparing to distribute leaflets promoting democracy through non-violent means. (More...)
Trial to begin in Vietnam for Sacramento-based activist
Viet Tan’s ultimate goal "is to rebuild Vietnam, which has suffered much political and economic backwardness," Do said. "Viet Tan holds that the Vietnamese people must solve the problems of Vietnam. Change, therefore, must come through the power of the people in the way of grassroots, peaceful means." (More...)
US Citizen Faces Terror Charges in Vietnam
An American national is due to go on trial in Vietnam next week on terrorism charges, and the case has some U.S. lawmakers calling for Washington to reconsider the decision to normalize trade relations with Hanoi. (More...)
Open Letter from Mrs. Ngo Mai Huong
First, I would like to inform everyone who has helped the call to free my husband, Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan, that the Vietnamese authorities will bring my husband to court this coming 13th of May. I would also like to inform that I have acquired two Vietnamese national attorneys to defend my husband. Their offices have acknowledged me with the trial date. (More...)
Open letter from Nguyen Thi Thanh Van and Leon Truong Van Ba
We, Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, a French citizen and Truong Van Ba, an American citizen, both Viet Tan members, would like to bring to your attention the ongoing detainment of our colleagues and friends – Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan, an American citizen; Mr. Somsak Khunmi, a Thai resident; and Mr. Nguyen The Vu and Mr. Nguyen Viet Trung, two Vietnamese citizens. They were arrested at the same time as us on November 17, 2007 in Saigon while preparing leaflets on non-violent struggle for democracy. (More...)
Open letter from Ngo Mai Huong, Dr. Nguyen Quoc Quan’s wife
As of today, March 6, 2008, the Vietnamese government has held my husband, Dr Nguyen Quoc Quan, for exactly 110 days without charge and without family visit. When the US Consulate in Saigon was last able to see him in prison, the Vietnamese government cut down the visitation time from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. They also forbid letters to and from our family to be delivered despite our multiple requests. They cut off the conversation when the US Consulate representative asked my husband about access to newspapers in prison; they then iterated that only questions on his health are permitted. I believe the Vietnamese government actions are intended to terrorize and to intimidate my husband. (More...)
Green signal
Between 2006 and 2007, Ha Noi regime has achieved many successes on both trade and international relation. Starting with the successful APEC Summit, and then became a member of the WTO, and most recently is the status as Non-Permanent Member of the UN Security Council. With these successes, Ha Noi regime on one hand has to make all effort to paint a covering for a society filled with corruption, abuse of power of Communist officials, in the other hand, Ha Noi must uproot a new born yet full of determination democratic movement in Viet Nam. (More...)
Vietnam caught between repression and reform
The government has through the state-controlled media acknowledged jailing some, though not all, of the activists. In a clumsy attempt to deflect US criticism, communist propagandists manipulated images on the website of state mouthpiece newspaper Sai Gon Giai Phong of detained US national Nguyen Quoc Quan, which were initially published with him wearing prison garb but hours later were replaced with images of him in a white t-shirt. Subsequent articles listed Quan’s nationality as "unknown". (More...)
