By KTT | May 22, 2015
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has collected ideas to amend the Law on Press with a requirement to keep the press under the state control and to serve the governance.
Local officials said at a meeting on May 21 that the changes would not harm the development of press but giving no specific measure for the improvement.
Representatives of the ministry, state agencies, journalist association, the Communist Party of Vietnam’s mouthpiece Nhan Dan newspaper, Vietnam Television (VTV), Voice of Vietnam (VOV), and Vietnam News Agency (VNA) affirmed no permission to private press as required by the CPV.
The Law on Press took effect in 1989.
Earlier at a meeting in November 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam affirmed that the policy making must be based on the requirement of the development and needs to give space for the growth of the press to enable journalists to promote their creativeness.
In fact, Vietnam has been criticized by foreign countries and rights groups for its crackdowns on expression of press and jailing hundreds of bloggers, journalists and dissidents who advocate freedom of expression.
The CPV’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong reaffirmed early this year that Vietnam will keep banning private media.
Currently, the communist-ruled country has 845 press agencies including 199 printing newspapers and 646 magazines, one national news agency, 98 online news portals, 67 television and radio stations. The country has nearly 18,000 licensed reporters.
Vietnam ranks fifth among the worst jailers of journalists in 2014 with 16 reporters currently put behind the bars, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said.
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May 22, 2015
Vietnam to Amend Press Law, Keeping State Control over Freedom of Expression
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
The CPV’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong reaffirmed early this year that Vietnam will keep banning private media.
By KTT | May 22, 2015
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has collected ideas to amend the Law on Press with a requirement to keep the press under the state control and to serve the governance.
Local officials said at a meeting on May 21 that the changes would not harm the development of press but giving no specific measure for the improvement.
Representatives of the ministry, state agencies, journalist association, the Communist Party of Vietnam’s mouthpiece Nhan Dan newspaper, Vietnam Television (VTV), Voice of Vietnam (VOV), and Vietnam News Agency (VNA) affirmed no permission to private press as required by the CPV.
The Law on Press took effect in 1989.
Earlier at a meeting in November 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam affirmed that the policy making must be based on the requirement of the development and needs to give space for the growth of the press to enable journalists to promote their creativeness.
In fact, Vietnam has been criticized by foreign countries and rights groups for its crackdowns on expression of press and jailing hundreds of bloggers, journalists and dissidents who advocate freedom of expression.
The CPV’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong reaffirmed early this year that Vietnam will keep banning private media.
Currently, the communist-ruled country has 845 press agencies including 199 printing newspapers and 646 magazines, one national news agency, 98 online news portals, 67 television and radio stations. The country has nearly 18,000 licensed reporters.
Vietnam ranks fifth among the worst jailers of journalists in 2014 with 16 reporters currently put behind the bars, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said.