(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (New York) – Vietnam is using vague national security laws to stifle dissent and arrest critics, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States and other signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) should press Vietnam to drop proposed legislation that would add even more rights-abusing penalties to its already draconian criminal code. Vietnam's Public Security Minister General Tran Dai Quang at the National Convention Center in Hanoi on August 18, 2015. © 2015 Reuters In November 2015, the public security minister, General Tran Dai Quang, reported to the National Assembly that from June 2012 until November 2015, “The police have received,...
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