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Vietnam War Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Wins Swedish Human Rights Prize
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a former US military analyst who exposed Washington's secret war plans for Vietnam in 1971, won the 2018 Olof Palme human rights prize on Wednesday.
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Vietnam Jails Land Activist A Second Time For 'Public Disorder'
A court in Vietnam sentenced a land rights activist to 20 months in jail on Tuesday for causing public disorder, her lawyer said, jailing her for a second time over a similar offence in a case a top human rights group said should have been dropped.
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Barack Obama Lifts Arms Ban In His First Visit To Vietnam
US President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a decades-old arms export embargo for Vietnam during his first visit to the communist country, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner even as he pushes for better human rights from the one-party state.
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Jailed Vietnam Blogger Freed, Heads to The States: US Embassy
A prominent Vietnamese blogger who was jailed after she wrote about corruption in the Communist country's police and judiciary has been released and left the country, the US embassy said today.
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Vietnam Arrests Anti-China Blogger for Posting 'Bad Content'
Vietnamese police said they had arrested a blogger for posting "bad content" about the government, as part of a long-running crackdown on online dissent in the communist country.
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US Lawmakers Criticize Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar for Troubled State of Human Rights
Lawmakers reviewing the "troubling" state of human rights in Southeast Asia have stiffly criticized Vietnam and Cambodia but reserved some of their toughest words for Myanmar and demanded an end to U.S. concessions to its quasi-civilian government.
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Vietnam War Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Wins Swedish Human Rights Prize
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a former US military analyst who exposed Washington's secret war plans for Vietnam in 1971, won the 2018 Olof Palme human rights prize on Wednesday.
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Vietnam Jails Land Activist A Second Time For 'Public Disorder'
A court in Vietnam sentenced a land rights activist to 20 months in jail on Tuesday for causing public disorder, her lawyer said, jailing her for a second time over a similar offence in a case a top human rights group said should have been dropped.
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Barack Obama Lifts Arms Ban In His First Visit To Vietnam
US President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a decades-old arms export embargo for Vietnam during his first visit to the communist country, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner even as he pushes for better human rights from the one-party state.
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Jailed Vietnam Blogger Freed, Heads to The States: US Embassy
A prominent Vietnamese blogger who was jailed after she wrote about corruption in the Communist country's police and judiciary has been released and left the country, the US embassy said today.
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Vietnam Arrests Anti-China Blogger for Posting 'Bad Content'
Vietnamese police said they had arrested a blogger for posting "bad content" about the government, as part of a long-running crackdown on online dissent in the communist country.
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US Lawmakers Criticize Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar for Troubled State of Human Rights
Lawmakers reviewing the "troubling" state of human rights in Southeast Asia have stiffly criticized Vietnam and Cambodia but reserved some of their toughest words for Myanmar and demanded an end to U.S. concessions to its quasi-civilian government.
