01/12/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 1 December, the EU called for the release of "all the Vietnamese citizens detained for peacefully exercising their freedom of expression". During the seventh round of the EU-Vietnam annual enhanced Human Rights Dialogue, which was held in Hanoi, the EU "expressed serious concerns about the extensive application of the national security provisions in Vietnam’s Penal Code and noted the steep rise in the number of detentions, arrests and sentencing...