Authorities in northern Vietnam detained a young blogger for several hours on Tuesday, interrogating him about his activism and confiscating copies of a controversial book, amid a growing crackdown on online dissent that has seen three netizens arrested in recent weeks.
Twenty-seven-year-old former medical student Tu Anh Tu, who has blogged critically about Vietnam’s one-party communist government, said police questioned him about his involvement in pro-democracy and anti-China protests and his relationships with dissident bloggers before releasing him.
“They asked about my opinion about democracy and multiparty systems, whether I am for or against those, and about my relationships with some arrested bloggers,” Tu told RFA’s Vietnamese Service.
He was taken into custody after some 15 police officers arrived at his office in Tan Quang, Hung Yen province around 9:30 a.m., searching the premises and seizing 20 copies of The Winning Side, a book by ex-journalist and fellow blogger Huy Duc.
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