Vietnam - Malaysian complicity in cyber-dissident's arrest by Vietnam

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns Vietnamese cyber-dissident Vu Quang Thuan's deportation by Malaysia and his arrest by the Vietnamese authorities on arrival at Ho Chi Minh City airport on 2 February. He is now facing a possible 20-year jail sentence of a charge of anti-state propaganda. No date has been set for his trial. Aged 44 and a leader of the Vietnam Progressive Democratic Movement, an opposition party founded in 2007, Thuan fled in 2009 to Malaysia, where he continued to post (...)

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