29 June 2026. Since the previous EU-Vietnam human rights dialogue in July 2025, Vietnamese members of civil society, including human rights defenders, bloggers, journalists, lawyers, environmental rights activists, and freedom of religion advocates, have continued to be detained under overly broad and vaguely defined "national security" provisions of the 2015 Criminal Code, which are inconsistent with international human rights law.
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