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Dang Thi Kim Lieng

September 21, 2012

Viet Nam: Release bloggers, stop harassing their family and friends

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Duong Thi Tan, Le Ngoc Thanh, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

September 21, 2012. Amnesty International – Three Vietnamese bloggers who face up to 20 years in jail simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today, ahead of their trial at Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Court on Monday 24 September 2012. 

September 20, 2012

Vietnam’s press freedom shrinks despite open economy

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Dinh Huu Thoai, Huynh Ngoc Chenh, Le Van Son (Paulus Le Son), Nguyen Tri Dung, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan, Trinh Kim Tien

Vietnamese officials are stepping up repression of old and new media even as they promote an image of an open, globalized economy. Intense surveillance and imprisonment of critical journalists, coupled with increasingly restrictive laws, are choking the flow of information. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin A police officer blocks photographers at an anti-China […]

September 17, 2012

DISSIDENTS AND FAMILIES TARGETED, COVERT HARASSMENT AND REPRISALS

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Le Ngoc Thanh, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

TUESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2012 – Reporters Without Borders is appalled by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s directive calling on the authorities to impose “serious punishments” on those responsible for three popular anti-corruption blogs that he described as “slanderous.” The organization also deplores the arrest of the wife of the jailed journalist and blogger Dieu Cay, the sister of the […]

August 19, 2012

An Interview with Engineer Do Nam Hai on the Announcement

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Do Nam Hai, Nguyen Dan Que, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

Reporter – Internet Radio Rallying for Democracy: Kind regards to Do Nam Hai, the democracy activist and dissident, is here for an interview today.  Do Nam Hai: Greetings and welcome to the listeners of Radio Rallying for Democracy. I am Do Nam Hai, speaking from Saigon, Việtnam.

August 15, 2012

THE ANNOUNCEMENT on the death of Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng – Mother of blogger Ta Phong Tan being illegally detained.

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

Vietnam, August 8, 2012. To the attention of:   Vietnamese compatriots, domestic and abroad. And to:   The governments, diplomatic missions, human rights organizations and progressive people worldwide. We are deeply sad but we have to speak out about the tragic and mystery death of Mrs. Dang Thi Kim Lieng – 64 years, on 30 July, 2012 […]

August 4, 2012

U.S. Embassy’s Statement on Lieng Self-immolation

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

August 1, 2012 – We were deeply concerned and saddened to hear of Ms. Dang Thi Kim Lieng’s July 30 self-immolation reportedly related to circumstances surrounding the detention of her daughter Ta Phong Tan.

August 3, 2012

Viet Nam: Open Letter To Embassies About the Upcoming Trial of 3 Bloggers

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Ha Huy Son, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

31 July 2012 Attn:  Heads of Missions: Embassies of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of […]

August 2, 2012

Imprisoned blogger’s mother self-immolates in Vietnam

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Ta Phong Tan

New York, July 30, 2012–The mother of an imprisoned Vietnamese blogger died after setting herself on fire to protest her daughter’s detention on anti-state charges, her family has told international news outlets.

August 1, 2012

HARSHER CRACKDOWN ON DISSIDENTS PROMPTS ACT OF DESPAIR

by • Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Ha Huy Son, Le Quoc Quan, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (AnhBaSaigon), Ta Phong Tan

RSF 30 July, 2012 – Dang Thi Kim Lieng, the mother of the jailed blogger Ta Phong Tan, died after setting fire to herself today outside the headquarters of the People’s Committee in Bac Lieu, Tan’s home province, in an act of despair about her dissident daughter’s trial next week in Ho Chi Minh City for criticizing […]