Foreign firms are cautioning Vietnam about a potential investment freeze unless new tax offsets are provided. Concerns over Vietnam's restrictions on free speech, assembly, and religious freedom have been raised by various sources, highlighting the government's authoritarian practices. The Vietnamese government is facing pressure to release political prisoners and improve human rights conditions.
The Communist Party of Vietnam requires all religious organizations to register with the government, and jails and oppresses offenders. I’m asking Sec. Blinken to take action to raise the pressure on Vietnam to release its political prisoners and end its war on religious freedom. https://t.co/8a8knez2Xe
The Editorial Board writes, "Do the authoritarians in Vietnam’s Politburo think no one will notice they are practicing repression inside the country while promising otherwise to outsiders?" https://t.co/LP4mAAg7A3
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"Vietnam is already a police state in which free speech and assembly are limited and dissidents and civil society activists are punished by imprisonment." Despite an economic opening, the Vietnamese government is determined to keep it that way. https://t.co/DvLxFe2FsZ
NEW: Vietnam’s egregious violations of their citizens' religious freedom cannot go unanswered. Sec. Blinken must raise the United States’ pressure on Vietnam to release its political prisoners and end this war on religious freedom. https://t.co/UkPw0qmF7V
Foreign firms warn Vietnam of investment freeze without new tax offset, source says https://t.co/WBPDrkeul6 https://t.co/HLsXpqGdwI