By KTT, November 2, 2016
Vietnam needs to supplement regulations on rights and obligations of reporters to better protect them amid rising assaults to journalists who are on their duties; experts have raised voice at a conference in Hanoi on November 2 receiving support from Canada, UNESCO, and Southeast Asian Press Alliance.
Doctor Le Hong Son, former head of Agency of Examination of Legal Normative
Documents under the Ministry of Justice, said that the ministry needs to review all documents relating to reporters to ensure that they are given all rights to write report different issues, especially investigative journalism without any threats.
Nguyen Duc Hien from Ho Chi Minh City Legal newspaper said that reporters should be equipped with knowledge of their own rights and obligations to work without harming or benefiting from their writings but they must be ensured to be protected by laws.
Statistics showed at the event that the number of assaults against reporters in 2014 doubled that in 2011 to 38 cases. So far this year, up to 12 cases has been reported.
The latest case occurred when reporter Tran Quang The working for the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper was beaten and left bleeding by a group of 10 people who are believed plain-clothed policemen when he was covering news on a deadly traffic accident took place on Sept 23 in a bridge north of Hanoi.
A video clip taken by other reporters showed that a police officer in plain clothes kicked Mr. The and broke his camera when the reporter attempted to get information of the death of a taxi driver.
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November 3, 2016
Vietnam Urged to Perfect Laws to Better Protect Reporters
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
By KTT, November 2, 2016
Vietnam needs to supplement regulations on rights and obligations of reporters to better protect them amid rising assaults to journalists who are on their duties; experts have raised voice at a conference in Hanoi on November 2 receiving support from Canada, UNESCO, and Southeast Asian Press Alliance.
Doctor Le Hong Son, former head of Agency of Examination of Legal Normative
Documents under the Ministry of Justice, said that the ministry needs to review all documents relating to reporters to ensure that they are given all rights to write report different issues, especially investigative journalism without any threats.
Nguyen Duc Hien from Ho Chi Minh City Legal newspaper said that reporters should be equipped with knowledge of their own rights and obligations to work without harming or benefiting from their writings but they must be ensured to be protected by laws.
Statistics showed at the event that the number of assaults against reporters in 2014 doubled that in 2011 to 38 cases. So far this year, up to 12 cases has been reported.
The latest case occurred when reporter Tran Quang The working for the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper was beaten and left bleeding by a group of 10 people who are believed plain-clothed policemen when he was covering news on a deadly traffic accident took place on Sept 23 in a bridge north of Hanoi.
A video clip taken by other reporters showed that a police officer in plain clothes kicked Mr. The and broke his camera when the reporter attempted to get information of the death of a taxi driver.