CPJ Special Report, September 19, 2012
HANOI
When Vietnamese police first detained blogger Nguyen Van Hai in 2008, they told his family it was for his own protection from Chinese secret agents angered by his reporting. Hai, widely known by his blog name, Dieu Cay (Peasant’s Pipe), had reported on local protests against China—rare events that were censored in government-controlled mainstream newspapers—and written critical commentaries about China’s claim to island territories contested by Vietnam.
“They said if they did not catch my father in time, it would disappoint China and they would start a war and then we would lose even more territory,” Hai’s son, Nguyen Tri Dung, said in a recent interview with CPJ. “That obviously wasn’t true.”
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