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  • 2013 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX – Asia-Pacific Area - Burmese spring an exception to decline in freedom of information in Asia Only three Asian countries are in the top 25 percent of the table, while 15 countries are among the bottom 45 places. Unsurprisingly, one-party authoritarian governments figure more than ever among the predators of press freedom and languish at the bottom end of […]
  • CHỈ SỐ TỰ DO BÁO CHÍ THẾ GIỚI 2013 – CHÂU Á TBD: VIỆT NAM KHÔNG CÓ DẤU HIỆU CẢI THIỆN - Mùa xuân Miến Điện – một ngoại lệ trong suy thoái tự do thông tin ở châu Á Chỉ có ba nước châu Á nằm ở phần 25% đầu bảng, trong khi 15 nước khác nằm trong số 45 nước cuối bảng . Không có gì đáng ngạc nhiên khi các chính phủ độc tài […]
  • Vietnamese Blogger Le Anh Hung arrested and interned in a mental institution in Hanoi - 2013-01-26 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights PARIS, 26 January 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly denounces the virtual kidnapping of Vietnamese blogger Le Anh Hung and his internment in a mental institution in Hanoi. At 10.15am on Thursday 24 January, six secret security agents came to the company in Hung Yen where […]
  • Journalism award: Ta Phong Tan, imprisoned Vietnamese blogger - Ta Phong Tan is one of three Vietnamese bloggers, collectively calling themselves the ‘Club for Free Journalists’, at the centre of a draconian clampdown by the country’s authorities. Vietnam is one of the world’s most restrictive countries for freedom of speech and the press. Only China, Eritrea and North Korea come lower on RSF’s press-freedom […]
  • Appeal to the Vietnamese authorities to free bloggers, citizen journalists and human rights activists and drop charges - 13 bloggers, citizen journalists and human rights activists were sentenced to jail in Vietnam – ARTICLE 19 Nguyễn Tấn Dũng Socialist Republic of Vietnam Office of the State 1 Bach Thao Hanoi, Vietnam 14 January 2013 Dear Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, We, the undersigned organisations, are seriously concerned over the conviction on Tuesday 8 January […]
  • Vietnam – Prison sentences handed down to human rights defenders (January 11, 2013) - Political relations France condemns the heavy prison sentences handed down on 9 January to 14 human rights defenders by the People’s Court of Nghe An Province in Vietnam. Several similar decisions have been taken by the Vietnamese authorities in recent months. Such decisions are a serious attack on human rights, particularly the freedom of opinion […]
  • Vietnam Continues Crackdown on Free Speech with Conviction of 14 Activists - Freedom House condemns the conviction of 14 human rights defenders in Vietnam and calls for their immediate release and for the release of other jailed free speech advocates. Their conviction is the latest in an intensified attack by the government on those seeking to exercise their right to free speech, and their trial was one […]
  • UN human rights office concerned over convictions of 14 activists in Vietnam - 11 January 2013 – The United Nations human rights office has expressed serious concern over the convictions and sentencing of 14 political activists in Vietnam for subversive activities.
  • RWB CAN PROVE INNOCENCE OF CONVICTED BLOGGER PAULUS LE SON - PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 11 JANUARY 2013 – Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the groundless verdict handed down yesterday by a court in northern city of Vinh against eight bloggers and cyber dissidents. They were among a total of 14 Catholic activists sentenced to between three and 13 years’ imprisonment. The press freedom organization is […]
  • Vietnam: Release Convicted Activists - Drop Charges Against Blogger Le Quoc Quan     January 9, 2013 (New York) – The conviction and prison sentences of 14 activists by the People’s Court of Nghe An province on January ­­­9, 2012, marks a sharp escalation of government attacks on critics. The convictions of the 14 should be quashed immediately, as should […]