Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay)
Hai was first arrested in April 2008 and held without charge for five months. A closed court sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for tax evasion on September 10, 2008-charges that rights groups criticized as a pretext to stifle his critical blog postings about the government and its policies. After completing…
A message from son of Vietnam blogger Nguyen Van Hai
In preparation for today’s Congressional Briefing on Media Freedom in Vietnam, organized by members of the U.S. House of Representatives and featuring a panel of Vietnamese bloggers and others, CPJ has been in close contact with the family of Nguyen Van Hai, a blogger who has been in jail since 2008. We have also met…
Nguyen Van Hai, Honored in Absentia with 2013 IPFA
Nguyen Van Hai Honored in Absentia by Scott Pelley with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2013 International Press Freedom Award. More on the Awards • The ceremony • Awardees • Nedim Şener, Turkey • Nguyen Van Hai, Vietnam • Bassem Youssef, Egypt • Janet Hinostroza, Ecuador • Paul Steiger, U.S.
Nguyen Van Hai, Vietnam
2013 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee (Courtesy of Univision) UPDATE: On November 25, 2014, Nguyen Van Hai attended CPJ’s 2014 International Press Freedom Awards and received his award in person. Scroll down to watch or read his speech. Nguyen Van Hai is one of the best-known bloggers in Vietnam’s burgeoning community of online journalists, who…
Journalist Duong Van Thai arrested in Vietnam after disappearing in Thailand
Manila, April 18, 2023—Vietnamese authorities should immediately release journalist Duong Van Thai and stop all efforts to harass and detain members of the press living in exile, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On April 13, Thai, an independent journalist who posts political commentary on YouTube and has about 119,000 followers, went missing in…
Nguyen Tuong Thuy
Nguyen Tuong Thuy, a reporter with the U.S. Congress-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA), was arrested by police in Hanoi on May 23, 2020. He is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence on an anti-state conviction. Thuy was charged the same day as his arrest with “making, storing, and disseminating documents and materials for anti-state purposes” under Article 117…
Phan Thanh Hai (Anh Ba Saigon)
Hai, a lawyer and political blogger who wrote under the penname Anh Ba Saigon, was first taken into custody on a provisional four-month detention while authorities investigated charges that he had disseminated anti-state information, a criminal offense under Article 88 of Vietnam’s penal code. On September 24, 2012, Hai was sentenced to four years in…
Nguyen Viet Chien
Police arrested Chien along with journalist Nguyen Van Hai, a writer for Tuoi Tre newspaper. The arrests came six weeks after a deputy minister was acquitted of corruption charges in a 2006 case they had covered, according to news reports. Security officials cited inaccuracies in the reports published in the outspoken Vietnamese-language newspapers, according to…
Nguyen Xuan Nghia
Nghia, who helped edit the pro-democracy news and commentary journal To Quoc (Fatherland) and contributed to several state-run publications, was first arrested at his home in northern Haiphong province. He was sentenced in a one-day trial on October 9, 2009, to six years in prison and four years’ house arrest under Article 88 of the…