Monday, 19 November 2012
Former BBC Correspondent barred from conference
As Vietnam’s annual East Sea Conference gets underway this week, Bill Hayton, former BBC correspondent in Hanoi, who was invited to attend by the Foreign Ministry’s think tank to attend, has been banned from entry by the Ministry of Public Security.
“Vietnam is a country that bans authors because of what they write,” Hayton wrote in an email. “I know this because it has just happened to me. Two months ago the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam invited me to attend its annual East Sea conference. Today, standing at the airport check-in counter at Heathrow Airport, I finally abandoned my efforts to get there.”
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