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  • Auszeichnungen für Medienleute aus Vietnam, Ecuador, Türkei und Ägypten - APA | 27.9.2013 New York – Vier Journalisten aus aller Welt, die für ihre Arbeit in ihrer Heimat verfolgt oder eingesperrt worden sind, erhalten den Internationalen Pressefreiheits-Preis. Verliehen wird er vom Komitee zum Schutz von Journalisten (CPJ). Nguyen Van Hai aus Vietnam, Nedim Sener aus der Türkei, Janet Hinostroza aus Ecuador und Bassem Youssef aus Ägypten […]
  • VIETNAMESE PREMIER REFUSES TO SEE RWB DURING PARIS VISIT - Reporters Without Borders 25 SEPTEMBER 2013 Reporters Without Borders today tried to hand a copy of its petition for the release of 35 bloggers and netizens detained in Vietnam – which already has more than 25,000 signatures ¬ – to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung during his current visit to Paris. The attempt came just two […]
  • Hanoi Police Arrest Prominent Activists, Severely Beating Bloggers - by Sao Khue (Defend the Defenders) Sept 26, 2013 Security forces in Vietnam’s capital city on Wednesday detained a number of bloggers, including prominent activists Nguyen Phuong Uyen and Nguyen Tuong Thuy, and severely beat some detainees before releasing them at midnight, foreign media and local bloggers reported.
  • BREAKING NEWS: VIETNAMESE POLICE ENTERED BLOGGER’S HOME – BEAT UP AND ARRESTED PEOPLE ILLEGALLY - By gracebuii | CNN | Sep 26, 2013 On the evening of September 25, 2013, the police and thugs illegally entered the house of blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy located at 11 Nha may Phan Lan Van Dien Hanoi. Blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy was arrested with his wife and daughter, along some house guests including: 
  • Vietnamese Authorities Arrest Prominent Activists in Hanoi - RFA | 2013-09-25 In a relentless crackdown on dissent, authorities in Vietnam arrested on Wednesday two bloggers, an activist and five others, according to one of the detainees. Police and plainclothes officers detained blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy, his wife and daughter, and another blogger Pham Ba Hai, as well as activist Nguyen Phuong Uyen, while […]
  • Vietnam: Programmed Death of Freedom of Information - RSF | September 2013 Vietnam’s ice age In January 2011, the Arab Spring transformed Tunisia. Egypt followed suit. Then Burma had its own spring. But no spring ever came to Vietnam. On the contrary, the political chill deepened. When National Assembly speaker Nguyen Phu Trong took over as Vietnamese Communist Party general secretary, he was […]
  • Vietnam: Bishop appeals to international community following attacks on Catholics - Christian Today | 20 Sep, 2013 Msgr. Paul Nguyen Thai Hop, Catholic Bishop of Vinh diocese on Vietnam’s north-central coast, has appealed for “international support and solidarity” following violent attacks against Catholics in Nghe An Province on 4 September which left at least 40 people seriously injured. Msgr. Paul Nguyen Thai Hop has described the […]
  • REP. SANCHEZ WISHES VIETNAMESE HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY LE QUOC QUAN A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CALLS FOR HIS RELEASE - Sep 13, 2013 WASHINGTON –Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) issued the following statement in honor of imprisoned Vietnamese human rights attorney and prominent blogger, Mr. Le Quoc Quan. “Most of us spend our birthdays with our friends and family, but today Mr. Le Quoc Quan, a prominent Vietnamese lawyer and blogger, turned 42 alone in prison. Today, […]
  • News: Stifled Southeast Asian voices: NGOs unite against criminalisation of free expression on the Internet -  PEN International | 13 September, 2013 As concerns grow in Southeast Asia over the use of national security, anti-terrorist and defamation laws to limit freedom of expression on the Internet, a coalition of international and local NGOs and activists from Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia urged governments to stop using vague legislation based on ill-defined concepts […]
  • CYBER-DISSIDENT GETS 15 YEARS FOR POSTING “SUBVERSIVE” ARTICLES ONLINE - Reporters Without Borders 13 September, 2013 Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that a people’s court in the south-central province of Phu Yen sentenced 65-year-old dissident activist Ngo Hao to 15 years in prison on 11 September on a charge of trying to overthrow the government.