Reporters Without Borders Calls for Release of Viet Journalists
Cali Today, Posted: Apr 23, 2008
Reporters Without Borders has called for the release of all journalists and cyber-dissidents in Vietnam, after a leading Vietnamese blogger was arrested April 19 for taking part in protests against China, Cali Today reports. The Olympic torch is due to arrive April 29 in Ho Chi Minh City, in southern Vietnam, after being borne through the streets of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The blogger arrested on April 19 in the southern city of Dalat was independent journalist Nguyen Hoang Hai, better known by his blogging pseudonym of Dieu Cay. He participated in protests against Chinese policy in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this year and was being closely watched by police, who had threatened to let Chinese agents kill him. According to a Vietnamese government website, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called on April 20 for "absolute security" during the Olympic torch relay in Ho Chi Minh City and warned against "hostile forces" that were always ready to disturb the peace. "The Vietnamese government should release all prisoners of conscience and implement the Olympic Charter, which defends human dignity," wrote Reporters Without Borders.
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