02 / 09 / 2011
A Vietnam Spring?
Viewed in the West as a tourist haven and a lucrative business venue, Vietnam remains a repressive one-party state, says one of the country’s leading democracy advocates. Vo Van Ai, founder of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, was recently awarded the prestigious Special Prize for Freedom by the Italian organization Società Libera (right), in recognition of Ai’s life-long commitment to promoting human rights and the rule of law in Vietnam.
This is an edited extract of an interview with Mr. Ai conducted shortly after the award by FIDH, the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights.
FIDH : First of all, ...
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