Vietnam: Arrests Escalate Ahead of Party Congress

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Hoang Thi Hong Thai outside the police interrogation room in Hanoi, April 2025. © Private (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese government has escalated arrests of perceived dissidents in the weeks before Vietnam’s 14th Communist Party Congress, which is scheduled to begin on January 19, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should end its intensifying campaign against its critics and release everyone imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their political views.Most recently, Hanoi police arrested the blogger Hoang Thi Hong Thai on January 7 for comments…

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