By Defend the Defenders, October 8, 2016
On October 7, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières or RSF) issued a statement condemning the Vietnamese government’s policy of isolating Vietnamese journalists and bloggers and its systematic reprisals against those who dare to connect with the outside world.
The Paris-based organization cited the latest case in which Vietnam’s security forces barred Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer of the human rights organization Defend the Defenders from boarding a flight to Bangkok on September 26. “National security” under Decree 136 was the ground for the Vietnamese police to preventing him from leaving the country.
Benjamin Ismaïl, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk said the blockage aims to isolate journalists and bloggers from the rest of the world. RSF urges the international community not to ignore these serious violations of the fundamental freedoms of journalists and human rights defenders in Vietnam, he said.
Vietnam’s authorities have repeatedly prevented Mr. Ngu from travelling abroad during the past two years, including in July 2015 when he was invited to attend a cyber-security seminar organized by RSF in Bangkok, said RSF in its statement. He was also barred from attending meetings with foreign diplomats including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski one week ahead of the visit of President Barack Obama to Vietnam in May.
Vietnam is ranked 175th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2016 World Press Freedom Index. The Communist Party runs the entire country and exercises a draconian level of control at all levels of the administration and society, RSF noted.
Vietnam’s bloggers denied all contact with outside world
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October 8, 2016
RSF Criticizes Vietnam on Preventing Bloggers from Contacting with Foreigners
by Nhan Quyen • Vu Quoc Ngu
By Defend the Defenders, October 8, 2016
On October 7, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières or RSF) issued a statement condemning the Vietnamese government’s policy of isolating Vietnamese journalists and bloggers and its systematic reprisals against those who dare to connect with the outside world.
The Paris-based organization cited the latest case in which Vietnam’s security forces barred Vu Quoc Ngu, chief executive officer of the human rights organization Defend the Defenders from boarding a flight to Bangkok on September 26. “National security” under Decree 136 was the ground for the Vietnamese police to preventing him from leaving the country.
Benjamin Ismaïl, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk said the blockage aims to isolate journalists and bloggers from the rest of the world. RSF urges the international community not to ignore these serious violations of the fundamental freedoms of journalists and human rights defenders in Vietnam, he said.
Vietnam’s authorities have repeatedly prevented Mr. Ngu from travelling abroad during the past two years, including in July 2015 when he was invited to attend a cyber-security seminar organized by RSF in Bangkok, said RSF in its statement. He was also barred from attending meetings with foreign diplomats including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski one week ahead of the visit of President Barack Obama to Vietnam in May.
Vietnam is ranked 175th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2016 World Press Freedom Index. The Communist Party runs the entire country and exercises a draconian level of control at all levels of the administration and society, RSF noted.
Vietnam’s bloggers denied all contact with outside world