Vietnam dissident arrests double under leader To Lam, report says

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A human rights group reports that arrests of dissidents and activists in Vietnam have doubled under leader To Lam, with 56 arrests documented last year alone. The report highlights the government's increasing crackdown on dissent.

Vietnam is increasingly using broadly written laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others that authorities consider a threat to the Communist Party’s rule, according to a new analysis released on Monday by a human rights group. The 88 Project, which focuses on rights issues in Vietnam, documented 56 such arrests last year, the third consecutive year of increases and double the number in 2022. The report included only arrests where the defendant could be identified by name and the case...