July 22, 2013
Vietnam blogger ‘weak’ from hunger strike
The Australian 22 July 2013 A WELL-KNOWN Vietnamese blogger, jailed for 12 years for anti-state propaganda, is “very weak” after a month-long hunger strike protesting at his treatment in prison, his family says. Nguyen Van Hai – a founding member of the banned Free Journalists Club who is better known by his alias Dieu Cay […]
September 26, 2013
Vietnamese Authorities Arrest Prominent Activists in Hanoi
by Nhan Quyen • Duong Thi Tan, Nguyen Phuong Uyen, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Pham Ba Hai (Trang Thien Long)
RFA | 2013-09-25 In a relentless crackdown on dissent, authorities in Vietnam arrested on Wednesday two bloggers, an activist and five others, according to one of the detainees. Police and plainclothes officers detained blogger Nguyen Tuong Thuy, his wife and daughter, and another blogger Pham Ba Hai, as well as activist Nguyen Phuong Uyen, while […]