Three more independent reporters arrested in Vietnam
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A sticker of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) 13th National Congress is seen on the back of a journalist’s computer monitor, Hanoi, Vietnam, 26 January 2021, MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images Independent journalists Nguyen Thanh Nha, Doan Kien Giang, and Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao were arrested after denouncing abuses by two recently promoted senior officials in Vietnam.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 22 April 2021.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of three Vietnamese journalists who were arrested this week after denouncing abuses by two senior officials, and urges the authorities to stop hounding journalists trying to provide their fellow-citizens with independent reporting.
IFJ 22 December 2020
Vietnam: Journalist arrested over infrastructure criticism
Truong Chau Huu Danh, a former state media reporter and a founder of the Facebook news page Bao Sach or ‘Clean Newspaper’, was arrested on December 17 after criticising a contentious infrastructure program in the country. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns Truong’s arrest and demands his immediate release. Credit: Canva
Truong was detained after posting his criticism of the country s build-operate-transfer (BOT) highways to his Bao Sach page. The project was implemented in recent years as a funding mechanism for Vietnam and involved the construction of toll booths and new methods of toll collection that sparked public protest. Truong had previously reported on the protests against illegal toll collection and the “illogical construction of tollbooths.”
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