- The 88 Project says Vietnam logged 56 politically linked arrests in 2025 (double the number in 2022), marking the third straight year of increases.
- Rights groups say under leader To Lam authorities have “weaponized” broad criminal laws to crush dissent and guard against feared “color revolutions,” a concern shared with China.
- Officials are increasingly using vague Article 331 ("abusing democratic freedoms") to prosecute journalists, social‑media critics, exiles and ordinary people raising land, religious or corruption grievances.
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