GENEVA (28 August 2024) – Independent human rights experts* today expressed alarm about the discriminatory misuse of counter-terrorism law by the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam against Montagnard Indigenous Peoples and Christian religious minorities in the country’s Central Highlands. On 20 January 2024, a “mobile court” convicted 100 people on terrorism-related charges following a mass trial. The trial was a response to attacks on two commune police stations in Dak Lak Province on 11 June 2023, which killed nine people.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 28 August 2024. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
