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Spotlight: Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam

Vietnamese blogger Truong Duy Nhat turns up in Hanoi jail after going missing in Bangkok

23 March 2019
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Truong Duy Nhat's family has confirmed that he is being held in Hanoi's T16 prison.

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam

Blogger Truong Duy Nhat goes missing after seeking refugee status in Thailand

The Radio Free Asia contributor and well-known Vietnamese blogger went missing in Bangkok on 26 January.

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)‎10 February 2019

Censorship Vietnam

Vietnam's 'Mother Mushroom' dissident blogger released and exiled to the US

After two years in jail, Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh was released by the government and immediately exiled to the United States.

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎18 October 2018

Attacks Vietnam

Vietnamese blogger Ngo Van Dung missing after police arrest

Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Ngo Van Dung, a Vietnamese blogger and citizen-journalist whose location has been unknown since his arrest on a street in Ho Chi Minh City two weeks ago.

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎19 September 2018

Latest from Vietnam

Vietnamese blogger and activist Le Dinh Luong gets 20-year jail sentence

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 18 August 2018
Vietnam suspends state-owned Tuoi Tre news website for “untrue” content

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Censorship Vietnam 24 July 2018
Vietnam's Cybersecurity Law threatens free speech and digital economy

‎ Global Voices Advox

Digital Rights Vietnam 25 June 2018
Vietnam's Mother Mushroom: Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh

‎ IFEX

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 15 June 2018
Vietnam urged to drop charges against human rights defenders and environmental activists

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 4 April 2018
Vietnamese writer Pham Doan Trang briefly detained for publishing a political textbook

‎ Southeast Asian Press Alliance

Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 11 March 2018
Harsh prison terms for video journalist and blogger as Vietnam cracks down on free expression

‎ Global Voices Advox

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 10 December 2017
Vietnamese artist Mai Khoi defiant after eviction for Trump protest

‎ Mong Palatino for IFEX

Censorship Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 26 November 2017
Tackling Vietnam's relentless persecution of bloggers

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Digital Rights Vietnam 26 October 2017
Vietnam: Why is the Party cracking down harder on bloggers?

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Vietnam 9 August 2017
Vietnamese activist Trần Thị Nga sentenced to 9 years for 'propaganda'

‎ Global Voices Advox

Digital Rights Vietnam 28 July 2017
Vietnam: Media must have full access to meetings of the National Assembly

‎ ARTICLE 19

Access to Information Vietnam 20 July 2017
Vietnamese blogger Phạm Minh Hoàng detained, stripped of citizenship, and exiled to France

‎ Global Voices Advox

Digital Rights Censorship Vietnam 4 July 2017
Charges against blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh must be dropped

‎ PEN International

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 26 June 2017
Vietnam: End attacks on activists and bloggers

‎ Human Rights Watch

Attacks Digital Rights Vietnam 19 June 2017
Two bloggers detained for 'propagandizing against the state' in Vietnam

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 24 March 2017
When early release means exile

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 21 February 2017
Videography is not a crime

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 27 January 2017
Blogger detained amid escalating crackdown in Vietnam

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Vietnam 7 November 2016
Prominent blogger 'Mother Mushroom' detained in Vietnam

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Censorship Vietnam 13 October 2016
Vietnam urged to free prominent blogger, all other peaceful critics

‎ Human Rights Watch

Digital Rights Vietnam 4 October 2016
Two journalists arrested while covering ecological disaster in Vietnam

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 6 May 2016
Vietnamese bloggers imprisoned for 'abusing democratic freedoms'

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 25 March 2016
Citizen-journalist Nguyen Van Dai badly beaten

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Attacks Censorship Vietnam 11 December 2015
Call for release of Buddhist monk and prominent Vietnamese dissident Thich Quang Do

‎ PEN International, Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Freedom House, Gulf Centre for Human Rights

Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 20 November 2015
Ta Phong Tan freed, 15 other citizen-journalists still in prison

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law Vietnam 22 September 2015

At a glance

Most covered free expression issues in this country

More from Vietnam

Freedom on the Net 2017: Vietnam

Blogger prosecutions intensified in 2017, culminating in a 10-year prison sentence for the activist using the penname Mother Mushroom in June [2016]

Freedom House 16 November 2017
Vietnam HRW Report: Events of 2016

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 2016 maintained its control over all public affairs and punished those who challenged its monopoly on power. Authorities restricted basic rights, including freedom of speech, opinion, association, and assembly. All religious groups had to register with the government and operate under surveillance. Bloggers and activists faced daily police harassment and intimidation, and were subject to arbitrary house arrest, restricted movement, and physical assaults.

Human Rights Watch 16 January 2017
Freedom of the Press 2016: Vietnam

Police harassed and detained journalists, bloggers, and employees of the newly established YouTube news broadcaster Conscience TV.

Freedom House 24 April 2016

Freedom on the Net 2015: Vietnam

"Vietnam continues to be one of the worst jailers of bloggers in the world"

Freedom House 31 October 2015

Freedom of the Press 2015: Vietnam

Ranked 186th in annual global media freedom report

Freedom House 1 May 2015

Enemies of the Internet 2014: Vietnam

Bloggers and cyber-dissidents, ruthlessly suppressed

Reporters Without Borders 12 March 2014

Attacks on the Press in 2013: Vietnam

"New decree requires Internet companies to reveal identity of their users"

Committee to Protect Journalists 11 February 2014

World Press Freedom Index 2014: Vietnam

Ranked 174th in annual press freedom index

Reporters Without Borders 1 February 2014

World Report 2014: Vietnam

Police harrass, arbitrary arrest and detain bloggers and rights activists

Human Rights Watch 22 January 2014

Programmed Death of Freedom of Information

Reporters Without Borders 23 September 2013

Vietnam: Joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review

ARTICLE 19, Access, English PEN and PEN International welcome the opportunity to contribute to the second cycle of the UPR process of Viet Nam.

ARTICLE 19 18 June 2013

Freedom of the Press 2013: Vietnam

Ranked 182nd in annual global media freedom report

Freedom House 1 May 2013

The Enemies of the Internet 2013: Vietnam

Reporters Without Borders 12 March 2013

Freedom in the World 2013: Vietnam

Government drafts decree expanding the definition of speech crimes on the Internet and forcing Internet providers to block and filter content more thoroughly

Freedom House 16 January 2013

Country Press Freedom Reports 2012: Vietnam

"Foreign media are effectively barred from covering controversial political issues"

Southeast Asian Press Alliance 3 May 2012

The Enemies of the Internet 2012: Vietnam

Citizen journalists fill void left by censored media

Reporters Without Borders 12 March 2012

Attacks on the Press in 2011: Vietnam

Online media crackdown intensifies, "reasserting the government’s near-total control of domestic news media"

Committee to Protect Journalists 21 February 2012

Press Freedom Index 2011-2012: Vietnam

Courts invoke state security laws to arrest critical journalists

Reporters Without Borders 26 January 2012

World Report 2012: Vietnam

"Government blocks access to politically sensitive websites, requires internet cafe owners to monitor and store information about users’ online activities"

Human Rights Watch 22 January 2012