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The laws used against us
Almost every one of our prisoners of the last twenty-five years was convicted under a handful of articles of Vietnam’s Criminal Code. Most are national security offenses written so broadly that praying in an unregistered church, talking to a foreign diplomat, posting on Facebook or crossing the border can be made to fit them. This page sets out...
Our defenders and prisoners
These are the records of highland people imprisoned for their faith, their organizing or their testimony, whose cases are well enough documented to set down in full: pastors and deacons of the house churches, a man who wrote down the names of other prisoners, a man who met American diplomats. Most were convicted of “undermining national unity.”...
Ha Mon: the Catholic movement the state calls an “evil way”
In a village on the Krong Poko, in the last years before the water came, a Bahnar woman named Y Gyin said that the Mother of God had appeared to her and had told her people to gather, to pray, and not to let themselves be moved. Within four years the reservoir was over the ground she named. Within eleven the state had run public denunciation mee...
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