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  • Statement No. 2 of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Viet Nam (IJAVN) concerning the expulsion of Nguyen Van Hai - IJAVN | Oct 23, 2014 Nguyen Van Hai is a founding member of the “Free Journalists Club” which started inSeptember 2007. In 2008, he joined protests against the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics torch relay through Vietnam. Nguyen Van Hai was arrested on 4/20/2008 and sentenced to 30 months in prison for tax evasion. However, after […]
  • Vietnam Rejects Holding Any Prisoners of Conscience - by Vu Quoc Ngu, Oct 23, 2014 Defend the Defenders Ms. Hang made this statement in Hanoi on Oct 22 in response to the statement of the U.S. State Department about the recent release of Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay), in which Washington considers the prominent activist as prisoner of conscience. Regarding the release […]
  • Freed Vietnam blogger Nguyen Van Hai flies to US - BBC | 22/10/2014 Also known by his pen name Dieu Cay, Mr Hai was sentenced to 12 years for conducting anti-state propaganda in September 2012. US State Department spokesman Marie Harf welcomed the release of “this prisoner of conscience” and said he had “decided himself” to leave Vietnam. The US has previously called on Hanoi […]
  • VIETNAM PATH MOVEMENT Press release on the early release of blogger Dieu Cay Nguyen Van Hai - Fb ConDuongVietNam | Oct 22, 2014 Mr. Nguyen’s family and the public have gathered from the U.S. Department of State as well as leaked information from the airport workers to conclude that Mr. Nguyen Van Hai was made a “refugee” by his own government and would be traveling to the U.S. At present time, there […]
  • Thông cáo Báo Chí về việc Chính quyền Việt Nam trả tự do cho Blogger Điếu Cày Nguyễn Văn Hải - Fb CongDuongVietNam | 22/10/2014 Nhờ sự có mặt của các nhân viên Bộ Ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ và tiết lộ của các công nhân viên làm việc trong phi trường, mọi người mới được biết là chính quyền đã đưa ông Nguyễn Văn Hải đi “tỵ nạn” tại Hoa Kỳ. Ngoài ra, không một ai […]
  • Letter to denounce the Vietnam government violates rights to freedom of movement of citizens - Pham Chi Dung IJAVN | Oct 22, 2014 To:  The U.S. Government and Congress         The European Union         International NGOs concerned with human rights & democracy My name is Pham Chi Dung, president of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam — a civil society in Vietnam. I would […]
  • Viet Nam: Freedom for all peaceful activists must follow blogger’s release - Amnesty International | 22/10/2014 Nguyen Van Hai, better known by his pen name Dieu Cay (“peasant’s pipe”), was released from prison yesterday, having served four years of a 12-year prison sentence. Immediately after his release he was taken to the airport and put on a plane, eventually bound for the USA. A popular blogger on […]
  • Vietnam Anti-China Activist Freed, Forced to Live in Exile -  by Vu Quoc Ngu, Oct 22, 2014 Defend the Defenders Mr. Hai, who was serving a 12-year imprisonment for conducting anti-state activities since 2012, was brought directly from the Nghe An province-based prison to Noi Bai International Airport, where he was forced to take a flight to Germany and then to the U.S., his former […]
  • Chủ nghĩa Makeno và tương lai Việt Nam - Vũ Quốc Ngữ | 22/10/2014 Defend the Defenders Hôm nay, trong lúc giải lao ở công ty, tôi vào facebook và đọc status của một facebooker khá nổi tiếng là Tony Buổi Sáng (https://www.facebook.com/TonyBuoiSang) về một chuyện người Việt Nam sản xuất hoặc chế biến theo hai cách: cách để gia đình mình ăn thì […]
  • RWB CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF 27 JAILED VIETNAMESE BLOGGERS - RSF | Oct 20, 2014 Vietnam is the world’s second biggest prison for bloggers and cyber-dissidents, after China. Vietnam’s bloggers are a source of independently-reported news and information that is an alternative to the government media. They write about corruption, environmental problems and the country’s political developments. There have been several waves of arrests of […]