A rights group says Vietnamese authorities are relying increasingly on Article 331, which makes it a crime to ‘abuse democratic freedoms’.

BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnam recurre cada vez más a leyes redactadas de forma amplia para detener a activistas, disidentes y otras personas que las autoridades consideran una amenaza…

A rights group is warning that Vietnam is increasingly using broadly worded laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others seen as threats to Communist Party rule

A rights group says Vietnamese authorities are relying increasingly on Article 331, which makes it a crime to ‘abuse democratic freedoms’.

The Bangkok-based advocacy group Project88 documented 56 political arrests last year, the most in any year since 2018.