RFA, 2012-09-07
Vietnam throws a journalist in prison for bribing police during an undercover investigation.
Photo courtesy of Tienphong Online.
Hoang Khuong (2nd from L) in court in Ho Chi Minh City, Sept. 7, 2012.
In a conviction condemned by rights groups, a Vietnamese journalist has been sentenced to four years in jail for offering a bribe to a policeman which he said was part of an investigation to expose police corruption. Hoang Khuong, 39, a reporter with the official Tuoi Tre newspaper, was charged with paying 15 million dong (U.S. $715) to a traffic police officer, through a broker, in return for the release of an impounded motorbike. “This sentence is as unfair as it is disgraceful,” said Christophe Deloire, the director-general of Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based global media watchdog.
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