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Vietnam Uses Broad Laws to Arrest 56 Critics, Report Says
The 88 Project says authorities relied on Article 331 to target critics, with tracked politically related arrests doubling from 2022.
- On Monday, the human rights group The 88 Project released an analysis documenting 56 politically related arrests in Vietnam during 2025, marking the third consecutive year of increases.
- Under President To Lam, who has served as Communist Party general secretary since 2024, authorities increasingly rely on Article 331 of the penal code, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
- The scope of Article 331 has expanded to target ordinary citizens voicing grievances, Human Rights Watch wrote last year, citing arrests of three men behind the YouTube channel The Messenger for "distorted content."
- Fears of an uprising, or a so-called "color revolution," drive these arrests, and Vietnam and China agreed earlier this year to "prioritize political security and enhance efforts to prevent and resist color revolutions," Xinhua News Agency reported.
- Ben Swanton, co-director of The 88 Project, stated the country has become a "police state that tolerates no dissent" under To Lam, marking regression from the 2010s' relative openness.
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A rights group warns Vietnam is ramping up arrests under broad laws to crush dissent
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.
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Vietnam is increasingly resorting to widely drafted laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others who are perceived by the authorities as a threat to the control of the Communist Party, according to a new analysis published on Monday by a human rights group.
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