Pham Doan Trang

  Defend the Defenders, March 7, 2021 The Online Free Press Coalition (OFPC) has included Vietnamese prominent human rights defender and political blogger Pham Doan Trang in its Ten Most Urgent Cases for March 2021 which highlights journalists who are incarcerated, under threat, or facing injustice. The list was made on March 1 and used […]

  Defend the Defenders, July 10, 2020   Under the increasing pressure of Vietnam’s security forces, prominent dissident Pham Doan Trang has been forced to stop her activities in the unregistered Liberal Publishing House which was honored with Prix Voltaire prize by the International Publishers’ Association for printing and disseminating books of political dissidents. In […]

Defend the Defenders, March 9, 2018 On March 8, Vietnam’s authorities detained prominent political blogger Pham Doan Trang for about eight hours and released her in late night of the same day. Trang, who was forced to leave her mother’s apartment in Hanoi to go into hiding in late February to avoide police’s harassment, had […]

Defend the Defenders, February 28, 2018 Prominent political blogger Pham Doan Trang has issued a statement vowing to remain in the country to work for human rights and multi-party democracy despite increasing persecution against her in recent days. In the statement posted on her Facebook account Pham Doan Trang, the blogger said she would never […]

Reporters Without Borders, February 27, 2018 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Vietnamese government’s persecution of the journalist Pham Doan Trang and her family and calls for international pressure on the regime. After being picked up for questioning during the weekend, Trang is currently under house arrest and could be facing imminent arrest. RSF also […]

Defend the Defenders, February 27, 2018 Prominent political dissident and well-known blogger Pham Doan Trang has reportedly gone into hiding from Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, despite heavy police surveillance. Since February 24, the private residence of her mother in Le Duc Tho residential complex has been under heavy police surveillance as the Vietnamese authorities […]

Defend the Defenders, February 24, 2018 Vietnam’s authorities have arbitrarily detained prominent political dissident Pham Doan Trang to interrogate her about her rerently-publicized book, local activists reported. Blogger-activist Trinh Kim Tien alerted on her Facebook page that at 2PM of February 24, two officers from Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security came to the private residence […]