Vietnamese bloggers Pham Chi Dung , Nguyen Tuong Thuy and Le Huu Minh Tuan during their trial on January 5, 2021.On this World Press Freedom Day, freelance journalist Pham Chi Dung is serving 15 years in a Vietnam prison. According to, authorities sentenced Dung in January, with three years of house arrest to follow the term.
The Ho Chi Minh City court convicted Dung of producing and disseminating anti-state and “distorted information about the people’s government.” The charges date to late 2019, when police arrested Dung at his home and seized “several documents.” Dung’s professional work has included coverage for the BBC and a blog with the U.S. Congress-funded broadcaster Voice of America.and started a petition against a potential free trade agreement between the European Union and Vietnam. He called on the European Parliament to delay ratification until Vietnam improved its human rights and press freedom standards, noting imprisonment of 18 political dissidents in the year 2019.
“In his final statement to the court, Pham Chi Dung said that if he was sentenced to a harsh verdict, it would be a blatant violation of freedom of the press, as well as other democracy and human rights in Vietnam,” Nguyen Van Mieng, one of Dung’s lawyers,As founding chairman of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam , Dung has led a group of 70 local journalists advocating for press rights.
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