September 24, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
Pen-International | Sep 24, 2015 PEN International welcomes the release of Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan (f) on 19 September 2015. Arrested in September 2011, Ta Phong Tan was sentenced a year later to 10 years in prison and three years in probationary detention for ‘conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam’ under […]
September 23, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Bui Thi Minh Hang, Dang Xuan Dieu, Dinh Nguyen Kha, Ho Duc Hoa, Le Thanh Tung, Ngo Hao, Nguyen Cong Chinh (Nguyen Thanh Long), Nguyen Huu Vinh (Anh Ba Sam), Nguyen Ngoc Cuong, Nguyen Ngoc Gia, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Nguyen Van Ly, Pham Minh Vu, Ta Phong Tan, Tran Anh Kim, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Tran Vu Anh Binh (Hoang Nhat Thong)
RSF | Sep 22, 2015 Reporters Without Borders is relieved by blogger Ta Phong Tan’s release after three years in prison on an anti-state propaganda charge but points out that 15 other citizen-journalists are still detained in Vietnam. A former policewoman held since 5 September 2011, Ta Phong Tan was released on 19 September and […]
September 23, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
asianewsweekly | Sep 22, 2015 Ta Phong Tan, author of the blog Justice and Truth was convicted in 2012 of writing propaganda against Vietnam and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Tan, who previously had served in Vietnam’s armed police services, started her blog in 2006. She frequently targeted the government for what she […]
September 22, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
VOA | Sep 21, 2015 WASHINGTON—A freed Vietnamese blogger says she and another online activist plan to take action against Vietnamese authorities in international court. Ta Phong Tan, author of the blog “Cong Ly v Su That” – Vietnamese for ‘Justice and Truth’ – arrived in the United States on Sunday after being released early […]
September 22, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
Asia News | Sep 22, 2015 “In the communist prison, I always kept my faith. I prayed and God blessed me. I was treated cruelly in prison, but I never cried in front of them. My heart was full of pain and sorrow on hearing my mother’s self-immolation because of my judgment”: These were the […]
September 22, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
RFA | Sep 21, 2015 Vietnam has freed prominent blogger and activist Ta Phong Tan, who flew to the U.S. after her release from prison over the weekend and vowed to continue her fight for freedom of expression in the authoritarian Southeast Asian nation from abroad. Rights groups and media watchdogs welcomed her release, but […]
September 22, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Cu Huy Ha Vu, Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Ta Phong Tan
RFA | 21-09-2015 Thêm một tù nhân chính trị tại Việt Nam, cô Tạ Phong Tần, đến Hoa Kỳ do áp lực của chính quyền Mỹ cũng như sự lên tiếng lâu nay về tình hình nhân quyền- dân chủ tại Việt Nam. Thực tế tiếng nói từ bên ngoài giúp cho phong trào đấu […]
September 21, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
Asia News | Sep 21, 2015 The Vietnamese Catholic dissident and blogger Mary Ta Phong Tan was released from prison a few days ago, and arrived yesterday in the United States. The US State Department confirmed that the woman “decided to travel to the United States shortly after being released from prison.” An official source […]
September 21, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
vietnamrightnow | Sep 20, 2015 One of Vietnam’s best known independent bloggers, Ta Phong Tan, has been released from prison after serving three years of a ten year jail term. Reports said that she was taken to the airport and put on a flight to Los Angeles immediately after leaving the prison in Thanh Hoa […]
September 21, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
CPJ | Sep 20, 2015 New York, September 20, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release from prison of Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan and calls on authorities to release all other journalists and bloggers imprisoned in the country. Tan was freed from prison and traveled to the United States, where she arrived late […]
September 21, 2015
by Nhan Quyen • Ta Phong Tan
Reuters | Sep 20, 2015 Vietnam has released a high-profile blogger who has traveled to the United States, the American embassy said on Sunday, but a human right group said the move extended a “cynical” practice by Hanoi to send its critics into exile. Ta Phong Tan, a former police officer, was sentenced to 10 […]
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October 7, 2015
Exiled Activists Fight for Freedom in Vietnam
by Nhan Quyen • Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Ta Phong Tan
Voiceofoc | Oct 06, 2015 Orange County is now host to two of Vietnam’s leading human rights activists, both of whom were exiled to the U.S. straight from their prison cells. While the Vietnamese government probably believes it has neutralized these activists by shipping them off, both are saying they will adapt their activism to […]