By Defend the Defenders, November 04, 2016
On November 4, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued a press release condemning the arrest of blogger Ho Van Hai and requested Vietnam’s government to release him immediately and unconditionally.
“The arrest and detention of blogger Ho Van Hai underscores Vietnam’s reputation as one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Hai should be immediately and unconditionally released, along with all the other journalists wrongfully held behind bars for their writing in Vietnam.”
Hai’s arrest comes amid an intensifying government clampdown on dissent that has targeted independent bloggers in particular, said CPJ, adding three bloggers Nguyen Huu Vinh, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, and Nguyen Ngoc Gia were sentenced for their writing.
Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières- RSF) has listed General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as one of numerous predators of press freedom.
Trong, who has been in the current position since 2011, was among 35 presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison, torture or murder journalists, according to the Paris-based RSF’s grim portrait gallery published on November 2 on the occasion of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
Vietnam remained at 175th position among 180 countries in RSF’s 2016 World Press Freedom Index. The communist nation is one of the world’s most hostile countries to media freedom, said the Paris-based group.
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November 6, 2016
CPJ Condemns Arrest of Blogger Ho Van Hai, Demanding Vietnam to Release Him
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
By Defend the Defenders, November 04, 2016
On November 4, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued a press release condemning the arrest of blogger Ho Van Hai and requested Vietnam’s government to release him immediately and unconditionally.
“The arrest and detention of blogger Ho Van Hai underscores Vietnam’s reputation as one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Hai should be immediately and unconditionally released, along with all the other journalists wrongfully held behind bars for their writing in Vietnam.”
Hai’s arrest comes amid an intensifying government clampdown on dissent that has targeted independent bloggers in particular, said CPJ, adding three bloggers Nguyen Huu Vinh, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, and Nguyen Ngoc Gia were sentenced for their writing.
Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières- RSF) has listed General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as one of numerous predators of press freedom.
Trong, who has been in the current position since 2011, was among 35 presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison, torture or murder journalists, according to the Paris-based RSF’s grim portrait gallery published on November 2 on the occasion of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
Vietnam remained at 175th position among 180 countries in RSF’s 2016 World Press Freedom Index. The communist nation is one of the world’s most hostile countries to media freedom, said the Paris-based group.