Human Rights Organizations Call on the UN to Aid Detained Vietnamese Blogger Le Quoc Quan-MARCH 15, 2013 | BY EVA GALPERIN – the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – On 27 December 2012 prominent Vietnamese activist and blogger Le Quoc Quan was arbitrarily arrested and detained by local authorities while taking his daughter to school. The arrest was the culmination of years of constant surveillance and harassment over his extensive writing on […]
NGO COALITION, INCLUDING RWB, URGES UN TO PRESS FOR JAILED BLOGGER’S RELEASE-PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2013 – Read the special report on Internet surveillance in Vietnam Vietnam is on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Enemies of the Internet” and is now the world’s third biggest prison for bloggers and cyber-dissidents, after China and Oman. JOINT PRESS RELEASE – 13 March 2013 Today, a broad coalition […]
Netizen Huynh Ngoc Chenh’s Remarks to the RSF’s award ceremony on Mar 12, 2013-Updated on Mar 14, 2013. Translated by Me Nam (Defend the Defenders) Ladies and gentlemen, It is a surprise and a pleasure to be here at this honorable ceremony today, just because, in my country, many rights are regconized under the constitution but the authorities have restricted them by all means. Over the past two years, many […]
4 Signs the Vietnamese Government Is Crushing the Country’s ‘Social Media Revolution’-Vietnamese students surf the Internet at a cafe in Hanoi March 18, 2004. (Reuters) DANA WAGNER – Dana Wagner is a migration-policy consultant based in Hanoi. The Communist Party has responded to the growth of anti-state blogging with a disturbing crackdown. MAR 11 2013, 1:04 PM ET – After more than a year in pre-trial […]
SPECIAL REPORT ON INTERNET SURVEILLANCE, FOCUSING ON FIVE GOVERNMENTS AND FIVE COMPANIES THAT ARE ENEMIES OF THE INTERNET-ENEMIES OF THE INTERNET 2013 Today, 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. Around 180 netizens worldwide […]
Secretary Kerry Delivers Remarks at the 2013 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the 2013 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on March 8, 2013. Among the recipients of 2013 International Women of Courage Award is blogger, lawyer Ta Phong Tan from Vietnam. [subscribe2]
Gallery: Seven women free expression champions-Last year for the International Day to End Impunity, IFEX profiled 23 individuals who had been threatened, attacked or worse for expressing themselves. In all cases, the perpetrators remain free. We asked some of the women profiled about the challenges they face, advice for other women in their fields, and the kind of world they […]
Blogger Huỳnh Ngọc Chênh đoạt Giải Công dân Mạng 2013-Trà Mi-VOA – 08.03.2013 Blogger Huỳnh Ngọc Chênh của Việt Nam được nhận Giải Công dân Mạng 2013 do Tổ chức Phóng viên Không biên giới RSF phối hợp với đại công ty internet Google vinh danh. Bà Lucie Morillon Giám đốc phụ trách lĩnh vực truyền thông mới thuộc tổ chức RSF, loan báo […]
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS AWARDS VIETNAMESE BLOGGER HUYNH NGOC CHENH-RSF – PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY 7 MARCH 2013. Reporters Without Borders, with support from Google, Thursday awarded its Netizen of the Year 2013 award to Vietnamese blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Reporters Without Borders chose the nominees and more than 40,000 Internet users visited the YouTube site from around the world. They selected the winner on Reporters’ […]
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