Vietnam - Two citizen journalists facing jail sentences for operating pirate radio

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the decision by the Vietnamese judicial authorities to press ahead with the trial tomorrow of two citizen journalists, Vu Duc Trung and Le Van Thanh, on a charge of illegally retransmitting radio programmes to China. The Chinese-language programmes they began broadcasting to China on the short-wave in 2008 were those of Sound of Hope Network, an overseas Chinese radio station based in California. “We urge the authorities to issue a fair and proportionate (...)

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