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Blogger Việt Nam mong được tự do ngôn luận | VOA Tiếng Việt | VOA Tiếng Việt
Trong các buổi tranh luận sôi nổi trên Tạp chí Thanh Niên vừa qua, 4 blogger trong nước đã mạnh mẽ lên án chiến dịch trấn áp mới của nhà nước đối với giới blogger là vi phạm quyền tự do bày tỏ quan điểm và tự do ngôn luận được Hiến pháp công nhận. Các bạn cũng phản biện những luận điểm chính quyền đưa ra để quản lý blog. Blogger trẻ tại Việt Nam mong đợi gì ở giới hữu trách và họ có thể làm gì để góp phần tạo ra những chuyến biến như trông đợi? Mời quý vị và các bạn cùng chia sẻ trước khi chúng ta chia tay các vị khách tham gia thảo luận đề tài “Cảm nghĩ của blogger về tình hình sinh hoạt blog hiện nay”.
Vietnam slams blogger's nomination for free press award - Times LIVE
Pham Minh Hoang, a former maths professor in Ho Chi Minh City, was one of six nominees for the Netizen Prize, which was awarded last week. He did not win, but the authorities were still displeased. The state-run Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper said it was hard to understand why a prize should be given to people who "incite terrorism, and overthrow the people's government, undermining national unity".
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Vietnam detains journalists, anti-China protesters - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
Vietnamese Journalist Set on Fire has Passed Away : Very Vietnam
Journalist Le Hoang Hung has passed away after suffering third-degree burns following an attack at his home Yesterday (January 29), Vietnamese media reported that 50-year old journalist Le Hoang Hung had passed away in hospital. Le had been battling severe second and third degree burns and constant blood infection.
Reporters Sans Frontières - Une blogueuse arrêtée pour avoir dévoilé des affaires de mœurs et de corruption
Les charges contre la blogueuse Lê Nguyên Huong Trà , plus connue sous le pseudonyme Co Gai Do Long , ont été abandonnées, le 19 avril 2011, après plus de six mois de procédure. Le procureur a déclaré que ses actes n’étaient "pas si graves" et que la jeune femme avait "juste besoin d’être éduquée et avertie". La blogueuse avait été inculpée en octobre 2010 pour "diffamation envers un haut cadre du Parti".
New York, October 3, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the recent crackdown on freedom of expression in Vietnam and calls on the government to immediately and unconditionally release all of the journalists detained in the country. In the past six months, at least nine journalists, all of whom work primarily online, have been jailed in Vietnam. At the end of 2010 , CPJ counted only five journalists in jail. "With these arrests, Vietnam now ranks among the worst jailers of journalists in the world," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia program director. "The crackdown under way underscores the Communist Party government's enduring fear of an independent press scrutinizing its record, policies, and personalities.
In Vietnam, crackdown on journalists in past six months - Committee to Protect Journalists
Blogger Paulus Le Son arrested again amid mounting tension - Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s heavy-handed arrest of the Catholic blogger Paulus Le Son ( http://paulusleson.wordpress.com/ ) in Hanoi in the course of a major police operation targeting around 10 Catholics. It was the second time Son has been arrested this year. The police arrested him outside his home at around 11:30 am. They blocked the road as he returned home on his motorcycle, deliberately causing him to fall. Four police officers then lifted him by his hands and feet and tossed him into a police car.
Vietnam: Intensifying Repression of Human Rights | Human Rights Watch
(New York) - The Vietnam government intensified its repression of activists and dissidents during 2010, and cracked down harshly on freedom of expression, association, and assembly, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2011 . The 649-page report , Human Rights Watch's 21st annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights developments in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. In Vietnam, bloggers, human rights defenders, workers rights activists, and democracy and anti-corruption campaigners faced intimidation, arrest, torture, and imprisonment, Human Rights Watch said.Vietnam cracks down on online critics ahead of Communist congress | World news | The Guardian
At a trendy cafe in the smart Saigon Centre shopping mall, a place where the nouveau riche go to see and be seen, Nguyen Ngoc Quang recalls the moment he fell foul of the darker side of Vietnam 's much-lauded economic miracle. Men hired by the security police, he says, knocked him to the ground and drove over him with a motorbike. The message to the political dissident and online activist was blunt: stop or else. But the former designer, 49, whose face is scarred from the September attack, is unbowed. "I won't back down," he said. "The government is trying to stop us because we are telling the truth.