Vietnam - Well-known blogger freed but 15 other citizen-journalists still held

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is relieved by blogger Ta Phong Tan's release after three years in prison on an anti-state propaganda charge but points out that 15 other citizen-journalists are still detained in Vietnam. A former policewoman held since 5 September 2011, Ta Phong Tan was released on 19 September and immediately boarded a flight to Los Angeles for exile in the United States. In September 2012, she was sentenced to ten years in prison for criticizing corruption and human rights (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 22 septembre 2015