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  • BREAKING NEWS: VIETNAMESE POLICE ENTERED BLOGGER’S HOME – BEAT UP AND ARRESTED PEOPLE ILLEGALLY - By gracebuii | CNN | Sep 26, 2013 On the evening of September 25, 2013, the police and thugs illegally entered the house of blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy located at 11 Nha may Phan Lan Van Dien Hanoi. Blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy was arrested with his wife and daughter, along some house guests including: 
  • Vietnamese Authorities Arrest Prominent Activists in Hanoi - RFA | 2013-09-25 In a relentless crackdown on dissent, authorities in Vietnam arrested on Wednesday two bloggers, an activist and five others, according to one of the detainees. Police and plainclothes officers detained blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy, his wife and daughter, and another blogger Pham Ba Hai, as well as activist Nguyen Phuong Uyen, while […]
  • Vietnam: Programmed Death of Freedom of Information - RSF | September 2013 Vietnam’s ice age In January 2011, the Arab Spring transformed Tunisia. Egypt followed suit. Then Burma had its own spring. But no spring ever came to Vietnam. On the contrary, the political chill deepened. When National Assembly speaker Nguyen Phu Trong took over as Vietnamese Communist Party general secretary, he was […]
  • Vietnam: Bishop appeals to international community following attacks on Catholics - Christian Today | 20 Sep, 2013 Msgr. Paul Nguyen Thai Hop, Catholic Bishop of Vinh diocese on Vietnam’s north-central coast, has appealed for “international support and solidarity” following violent attacks against Catholics in Nghe An Province on 4 September which left at least 40 people seriously injured. Msgr. Paul Nguyen Thai Hop has described the […]
  • REP. SANCHEZ WISHES VIETNAMESE HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY LE QUOC QUAN A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CALLS FOR HIS RELEASE - Sep 13, 2013 WASHINGTON –Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) issued the following statement in honor of imprisoned Vietnamese human rights attorney and prominent blogger, Mr. Le Quoc Quan. “Most of us spend our birthdays with our friends and family, but today Mr. Le Quoc Quan, a prominent Vietnamese lawyer and blogger, turned 42 alone in prison. Today, […]
  • News: Stifled Southeast Asian voices: NGOs unite against criminalisation of free expression on the Internet -  PEN International | 13 September, 2013 As concerns grow in Southeast Asia over the use of national security, anti-terrorist and defamation laws to limit freedom of expression on the Internet, a coalition of international and local NGOs and activists from Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia urged governments to stop using vague legislation based on ill-defined concepts […]
  • CYBER-DISSIDENT GETS 15 YEARS FOR POSTING “SUBVERSIVE” ARTICLES ONLINE - Reporters Without Borders 13 September, 2013 Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that a people’s court in the south-central province of Phu Yen sentenced 65-year-old dissident activist Ngo Hao to 15 years in prison on 11 September on a charge of trying to overthrow the government.
  • VIETNAM: CITIZENS AGAINST CORRUPTION - Transparency | 12 September 2013 Corruption’s cruel backlash: the case of Doan Van Vuon Early last year near the port-side city of Hai Phong, fish farmer Doan Van Vuon armed himself with homemade bombs and guns in a violent resistance against the public officials who had come to forcibly confiscate his land.
  • Vietnam man jailed for 15 years for subversion - Agence France-Presse September 12, 2013 Vietnam has sentenced a former army officer to 15 years in jail for plotting to overthrow the communist regime, a court official said Thursday, in the latest crackdown on dissent. Ngo Hao, 65, who served under the US-backed regime in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, was convicted at a […]
  • Vietnam’s Internet Censorship Bill Goes Into Effect - Electronic Frontier Foundation Internet freedom has gone from bad to worse in Vietnam as an online censorship law known as Decree 72 went into effect this month. It bans bloggers and users of social media from quoting, gathering, or summarizing information from press organizations or government websites. While the main justification for the law is to […]