Vietnam - NGO coalition, including RWB, urges UN to press for jailed blogger's release

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Read the special report on Internet surveillance in Vietnam Vietnam is on the Reporters Without Borders list of “Enemies of the Internet” and is now the world's third biggest prison for bloggers and cyber-dissidents, after China and Oman. JOINT PRESS RELEASE 13 March 2013 Today, a broad coalition of human rights organisations has called for UN free speech and human rights watchdogs to intervene and secure the immediate release of Vietnamese blogger and human rights activist Le Quoc Quan. (...)

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