Tatn: #Blogger Nguyễn Hoàng Vi "... Tatn: It's been a yr. since #Blo... Blogger Việt Nam mong được tự do ngôn luận | VOA Tiếng Việt | VOA Tiếng Việt. Vietnam slams blogger's nomination for free press award. Vietnam slams blogger's nomination for free press award Vietnam has criticised the nomination of a prominent blogger for a prize for online freedom of expression, reports state media. 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". Hoang had "abused the name of university teachers," the paper said. Hoang was arrested last August for "activities aimed at overthrowing the government" and being a member of a "terrorist organisation," based on his blog activities.
His wife has said he was arrested for speaking out against controversial bauxite mining projects by a Chinese company. Vietnam detains journalists, anti-China protesters - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News. Vietnamese Journalist Set on Fire has Passed Away : Very Vietnam. Vietnamese Journalist Set on Fire has Passed Away Posted by Mr.P 2 years ago · 1 Comment GD Star Ratingloading... 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’s story made international news after he was badly burned when an intruder broke into his family’s home as they were sleeping, then doused a chemical on him before he was set on fire. Le suffered third-degree burns to half of his body and was sent to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. According to Phap Luat Newspaper, Le Hoang Hung was born in 1960 in Chau Thanh District, Tien Giang Province, and started his journalism career in 1979.
The murder of Le Hoang Hung has shocked the media and caused many netizens and online news readers to share their comments and condolences. Update via: Monsters & Critics, Feb. 21, 2011 Chinh: Hồ Xuân Hải: GDVuonTaoNgo: 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". Elle avait été libérée sous caution en janvier dernier, mais les charges n’avaient pas alors été abandonnées.
Elle risquait jusqu’à sept ans de prison. Libérée sous caution après trois mois de détention, Lê Nguyên Huong Trà risque toujours sept ans de prison24.01.2011 Reporters sans frontières a appris la libération sous caution de Lê Nguyên Huong Trà, âgée de 33 ans, plus connue sous le pseudonyme de “Co Gai Do Long”. Lê Nguyên Huong Trà avait été arrêtée, le 23 octobre 2010, pour avoir qualifié le fils d’un responsable politique “d’homme à femmes”. In Vietnam, crackdown on journalists in past six months. 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. The national security-related charges used to imprison these journalists are bogus across the board. " On March 26, independent online journalist Lu Van Bay was arrested after authorities raided his house and confiscated his computers and materials, news reports said. Blogger Paulus Le Son arrested again amid mounting tension.
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday’s heavy-handed arrest of the Catholic blogger Paulus Le Son ( 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. It is not known where they took him. Reporters Without Borders is very concerned and calls for his immediate release. “We are appalled by the brutality of Son’s arrest, which has all the hallmarks of a police kidnapping,” the press freedom organization said. On the eve of his abduction, Son tried to attend the hearing of the well-known cyber-dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu’s appeal against his seven-year jail sentence.
Reporters sans frontières. Vietnam: Intensifying Repression of Human Rights. (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. Download the complete report > [PDF, 4 MB] "Peacefully expressing views should not be a crime, but the government apparently fears what these individuals have to say," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. Police brutality, including torture in detention and deaths in custody, was a major problem throughout the year.
Vietnam cracks down on online critics ahead of Communist congress | World news. 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. Nguyen, who recently completed a three-year jail sentence for dissent, is part of a growing, vocal group of Vietnamese who are challenging the authority of the Communist party, which has ruled the country since reunification in 1975 and does not permit political opposition.
"The Communist party wants to silence any criticism or unrest before its most important meeting," said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.