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Vietnam Is Poised for a Revolution, One Text Message at a Time
Andrew Lam New America Media 01/16/2013 1:28 pm Vietnam, a police state where freedom of expression can come with a multi-year prison term, is awash in cell phones. Whether for talking, texting or taking photos, Vietnamese are buying up mobile devices at a rate exceeding the country’s own population. A sign of the communist nation’s…
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Vietnam’s propaganda agents battle bloggers online
18 January 2013 – 19H05 AFP – After harassment and prison failed to silence Vietnam’s dissident bloggers, the communist government started building an army of propaganda agents to infiltrate chatrooms and sing the regime’s praises. “Their favourite arguments are: ‘shut up and trust the government’. They don’t engage in rational debate. They go in for…
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Bloggers imprisoned in mass sentencing in Vietnam
Committee to Protect Journalists, Jan 9, 2013 Vietnamese activists and bloggers stand for sentencing in court. (AFP/Vietnam News Agency) Bangkok, January 9, 2013–At least five independent bloggers were sentenced today to harsh jail terms in Vietnam, according to local and international news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this move and calls on Vietnamese…
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Vietnamese blogger reports sexual assault by officials
By Shawn W. Crispin / CPJ Southeast Asia Representative Vietnam’s crackdown on independent bloggers hit a new low in recent days with reports of sexual violence perpetrated by state officials against a prominent online reporter. In a disturbing first person account posted Friday to the Danlambao collective blog, Nguyen Hoang Vi detailed how police officials beat and stripped her and ordered…
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Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for ‘subversion’
Los Angeles Times By Emily Alpert January 9, 2013, 1:25 p.m. Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents had been sent…
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Vietnam’s Blogosphere: The Battleground for Rival Factions of the Ruling Communists
The Time – Dec 27, 2012 Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party is not looking back on a good year. The country’s economy is in trouble; the authoritarian leadership is split; and what appear to be rival Communist Party factions, seeking to rouse the dissenting voices of social media for their own ends, have unleashed a wave…
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Viet Nam: Release bloggers, stop silencing dissent
Press release 21 December 2012 Three Vietnamese bloggers given harsh prison sentences for alleged anti-state propaganda must be freed immediately, Amnesty International said ahead of their appeal hearing on 28 December 2012. The bloggers were sentenced on 24 September 2012 after a trial lasting only a few hours. Nguyen Van Hai, known as Dieu Cay…
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US statement on the Prevention of Huynh Trong Hieu from Traveling to the United States
Statement of the US Deparmtent of State December 18, 2012 We are troubled by the intervention of Vietnamese authorities to prevent Huynh Trong Hieu from traveling to the United States to accept the Hellman Hammett prize from Human Rights Watch on behalf of his father Huynh Ngoc Tuan and sister Huynh Thuc Vy. Tuan and…
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Summary appeal hearing upholds blogger’s jail term
Published on Tuesday 20 November 2012. Updated on Wednesday 21 November 2012. In yet another act of summary justice, a court in Dak Nong province took just 45 minutes today to confirm blogger Dinh Dang Dinh’s six-year jail sentence on appeal. Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the decision and calls on the international community…
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US State Department deplores Vietnam’s sentencing of two musicians
Conviction and Sentencing of Viet Khang and Tran Vu Anh Binh Press Statement Mark C. Toner Deputy Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC November 1, 2012 The United States is troubled by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court conviction and sentencing on October 30 of musicians Viet Khang and Tran Vu Anh Binh…
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