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Vietnam: New Decree Punishes Press

February 23, 2011 Reporters Required to Publish News Sources (New York) – The Vietnamese government’s new media decree, which fines journalists for vague infractions and

Viet Nam Activist Prison Sentence Condemned

January 26, 2011 Amnesty International has condemned the eight-year prison sentence handed down to a Vietnamese pro-democracy activist and former Communist Party official for posting

Watchdog warns of Vietnam media clampdown

January 14, 2011 HANOI — Vietnam will tighten state control of bloggers and other media with new regulations that enhance its already extensive powers to

Appeal timed to coincide with party congress

January 11, 2011. Reporters without Borders calls on the Vietnamese authorities to exercise clemency and free journalists and bloggers who have been jailed for the

Vietnam Plays Rough

January 7, 2011 Illustrating the relationship between rights abuses at home and diplomacy abroad. Vietnam’s government is attracting unwelcome attention after a security officer manhandled