HANOI, Vietnam — An international human rights group has condemned attacks on Vietnamese bloggers and activists by unknown assailants and urged the government to carry out impartial investigations and bring those responsible to justice. New York-based Human Rights Watch in a report released Monday highlighted 36 assaults that took place with apparent impunity between January 2015 and April 2017. “In many cases, the assaults took place in plain view of uniformed police officers who did not intervene,” it said. Vietnam has said there are no political prisoners in the communist country, only those who broke the law were put behind bars. All rights reserved.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2017 02:37 UTC