In a decision
announced on November 28, 2013, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention (UNWGAD) in Geneva ruled favorably on a petition filed by Allen
Weiner, Director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law
at Stanford Law School, that contests the illegal arrest, conviction and
ongoing detention of sixteen Vietnamese social and political activists.
UNWGAD
held that the detention and subsequent criminal conviction of these activists
violated international human rights obligations that are binding on Vietnam and
called upon the Vietnamese government to “immediate[ly] release” the detainees.
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