Vietnam: Biden Should Raise Rights on Hanoi Visit

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, left, speaks before a luncheon with then United States Vice President Joe Biden at the US State Department, Washington, DC, July 7, 2015. © 2015 Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) – Unites States President Joe Biden should publicly urge Vietnam’s leaders to immediately release all political prisoners and reform abusive laws during his planned visit to Hanoi on September 10, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch Letter to President Biden on Upcoming Visit to Vietnam, September…

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