Vietnam - Vietnam continues crackdown on citizen-journalism

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns citizen-journalist Nguyen Van Dai's arbitrary arrest, just ten days after he was beaten up by plainclothes policemen, and calls on the Vietnamese authorities to stop harassing the country's citizen-journalists. In the latest chapter of the never-ending persecution of Nguyen Van Dai, the Public Security Ministry arrested him on 16 December on a charge of “propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under article 88 of the criminal (...)

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