Vietnam

Facebook has bowed to pressure from the  Vietnamese government and agreed to restrict posts by dissidents, setting a bad precedent for both human rights and its global policies, says Human Rights Watch.

An undercover investigation has revealed Vietnamese criminal syndicates present a fast-growing threat to endangered wildlife.

There are at least 97 prisoners of conscience in jails in Vietnam, many of whom are kept incommunicado in squalid conditions and routinely subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, new research by Amnesty International has revealed.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been challenged to call on Vietnam’s government to halt its crackdown on freedom of expression.