Vietnam - Increasingly authoritarian Vietnam sentences another blogger

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the 15-month jail sentence that a Hanoi court passed today on the dissident blogger Pham Viet Dao for “creating a bad image of the Communist Party and the government” in a total of 91 blog posts. “This latest conviction shows that government is going all-out in its persecution of news providers,” said Benjamin Ismaïl, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Asia-Pacific Desk. “We call for Dao's immediate release as he was convicted just for wanting to inform (...)

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