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Vietnamese activists convicted for online songs
The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International is appalled by the sentences handed down to songwriters Vo Minh Tri and Tran Vu Anh Binh who were sentenced to four and six yeas in prison respectively, for conducting ‘anti-state propaganda’ via their critical songs posted on the internet. PEN International protests their imprisonment in the…
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Vietnam sentences 2 songwriters to prison for posting songs critical of the government
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 6:50 AM HANOI, Vietnam — Two musicians in Vietnam whose topical songs are popular among overseas Vietnamese were sentenced to prison Tuesday, prompting criticism from the United States and international rights groups. Vo Minh Tri and Tran Vu Anh Binh were sentenced to four and six years in…
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Vietnam Jails Musicians Over ‘Anti-State Propaganda’
VOA News, Marianne Brown October 30, 2012 HANOI — Two prominent Vietnamese musicians have become the latest activists to be jailed for spreading songs that are critical of the Chinese government. Marianne Brown reports from Hanoi.Despite strict censorship spanning decades, composers in Vietnam have rarely been prosecuted for the content of their music. However the…
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Viet Nam: Acquit songwriters who face 20 years in jail
Amnesty International, 29 October 2012 Two Vietnamese songwriters who face up to 20 years in jail for writing songs criticizing their government should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today, ahead of their trial on Tuesday 30 October 2012 at Ho Chi Minh City’s People’s Court. Vo Minh Tri, known as Viet Khang,…
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Vietnam’s Prime Minister Survives Challenge
Wall Street Journal on-line, October 15, 2012 By JAMES HOOKWAY ReutersProtesters are growing more daring. Above, security forces confront anti-China demonstrators in Hanoi in July. HANOI—Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung survived a leadership challenge Monday as he struggles to stabilize the country’s foundering economy, but he and other top leaders now face growing pressure…
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Free speech in Vietnam – Bloggers Flogged
Oct 4th 2012, 5:44 by L.H. | HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAMESE justice can be swift as well as ferocious, as three bloggers discovered almost as soon as they came before the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City, charged with having made propaganda against the state. Their case has upset Western governments and infuriated…
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Vietnam struggles to crack down on activist blogs
By CHRIS BRUMMITT | Associated Press – Fri, Sep 28, 2012 2:35 AM EDT HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The 7-iron resting against the wall in Le Quoc Quan’s office is for self-defense, not sport. The human-rights lawyer and blogger has not left home without the golf club since being beaten last month by iron-bar-wielding men…
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Vietnamese Buddhist Leader denounces imprisonment of bloggers
STATEMENTOF THE EXECUTIVE INSTITUTE OF THE UNIFIED BUDDHIST CHURCH OF VIETNAM ON THE ABSURD TRIAL OF THREE BLOGGERS ON 24.9.2012 calling on Vietnamese and international human rights organisations all over the world to support the Vietnamese people in their quest for internationally-recognised human rights On 19 June 1919, four Vietnamese patriots in Paris signed a…
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Vietnam on the roll to suppress freedom of expression
Quote attributable to Phil Robertson, Deputy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch Posted on Tháng Chín 27, 2012 | Để lại phản hồi VRNs (Sep 27th. 2012) – HRW – “A day after delivering long prison terms to the three leaders of the “Club for Free Journalists”, Vietnam’s abusive ‘Big Brother’ campaign against free speech…
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UN Rights Chief Dismayed By Harsh Sentencing Of Vietnam Bloggers
9/25/2012 5:41 PM ET (RTTNews) – UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed her deep concern and dismay over the conviction and harsh sentencing of three dissident bloggers in Vietnam a day earlier on charges of spreading anti-government propaganda. Pillay noted that the jailing of the bloggers reflected a trend of increasing restrictions…
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