Associate Press, Oct 11, 2016
A blogger has been arrested in Vietnam for allegedly publishing anti-state comments which police say distorted the truth, tarnished the country’s leaders and instigated the public to oppose the government.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 37, is accused of conducting propaganda against the Communist state and taken into custody in south central Khanh Hoa province on Monday, police say.
Quynh, who blogged under the name of Me Nam or Mother Mushroom, has been blogging about the government’s human rights abuses.
Her mother was quoted by the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers as saying Quynh did nothing wrong, but just spoke the truth.
Quynh was detained for nine days in 2009 for printing T-shirts with slogan opposing the construction of a state-owned bauxite mining project.
Police said Quynh’s arrest was in accordance with the law.
One of her posts included an appeal to “stop police killing civilians,” listing 35 people who died after temporarily being detained by Vietnamese police.
Quynh’s blog was launched in 2012 and is one of Vietnam’s most read dissident blogs, with 5000 friends and thousands of followers.
She was not able to travel to Sweden to accept the Civil Rights Defender of the Year 2015 award in person due to a travel ban imposed on her by the Vietnamese government.
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October 12, 2016
Blogger arrested in Vietnam
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Associate Press, Oct 11, 2016
A blogger has been arrested in Vietnam for allegedly publishing anti-state comments which police say distorted the truth, tarnished the country’s leaders and instigated the public to oppose the government.
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 37, is accused of conducting propaganda against the Communist state and taken into custody in south central Khanh Hoa province on Monday, police say.
Quynh, who blogged under the name of Me Nam or Mother Mushroom, has been blogging about the government’s human rights abuses.
Her mother was quoted by the Network of Vietnamese Bloggers as saying Quynh did nothing wrong, but just spoke the truth.
Quynh was detained for nine days in 2009 for printing T-shirts with slogan opposing the construction of a state-owned bauxite mining project.
Police said Quynh’s arrest was in accordance with the law.
One of her posts included an appeal to “stop police killing civilians,” listing 35 people who died after temporarily being detained by Vietnamese police.
Quynh’s blog was launched in 2012 and is one of Vietnam’s most read dissident blogs, with 5000 friends and thousands of followers.
She was not able to travel to Sweden to accept the Civil Rights Defender of the Year 2015 award in person due to a travel ban imposed on her by the Vietnamese government.