• The Rehab Archipelago: Abuses in Vietnam Drug Detention Centers
    Oct 4, 2011
    Human Rights Watch has found that tens of thousands of people in government-run drug detention centers in Vietnam are held without due process for years, forced to work for little or no pay, and suffer torture and physical violence. Government-run drug detention centers, mandated to “treat” and ”rehabilitate” drug users, are little more than forced labor camps where drug users work six days a week processing cashews, sewing garments, or manufacturing other items. Refusing to work, or violating center rules, results in punishment that in some cases is torture.
  • The Rehab Archipelago: Abuses in Vietnam Drug Detention Centers
    Sep 7, 2011
    Human Rights Watch has found that tens of thousands of people in government-run drug detention centers in Vietnam are held without due process for years, forced to work for little or no pay, and suffer torture and physical violence. Government-run drug detention centers, mandated to “treat” and ”rehabilitate” drug users, are little more than forced labor camps where drug users work six days a week processing cashews, sewing garments, or manufacturing other items. Refusing to work, or violating center rules, results in punishment that in some cases is torture.
  • Vietnam: The Party vs Legal Activist Cu Huy Ha Vu
    May 24, 2011
    The imprisonment of Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, 53, to seven years in prison on anti-government propaganda charges in April 2011, frustrated but did not end a remarkable outpouring of popular support inside Vietnam demanding his release. Dr. Vu, who has extraordinarily broad support in many unrelated sectors of society, has become a cause célèbre through the power of the internet, and this has led to an unprecedented human rights challenge to the Vietnamese government that is far from over.