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Nguyen Huu Vinh and his editorial assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy at an appeal hearing in Hanoi on September 22. The court upheld the bloggers' anti-state convictions. (AFP/STR/Vietnam News Agency)

Appeals court upholds anti-state prison sentences for Vietnamese bloggers

September 23, 2016 11:25 AM EDT

Bangkok, September 23, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemned a Vietnamese appellate court ruling yesterday to uphold the convictions on anti-state charges of two independent bloggers.

Vietnamese bloggers imprisoned for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’

March 23, 2016 1:05 PM EDT

Bangkok, March 23, 2016 – The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns a Hanoi court’s sentencing today of two Vietnamese bloggers to prison terms on charges of “abusing democratic freedoms.”

Vietnamese bloggers held for over 18 months in pre-trial detention

November 19, 2015 12:36 PM EST

Bangkok, November 19, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Vietnam to immediately release Nguyen Huu Vinh and Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, who have been held in pre-trial detention since May 5, 2014 on anti-state charges over articles posted on their news site and aggregator Ba Sam and other blogging sites. Vinh’s health has…

Vietnamese blogger arrested on anti-state charges

May 7, 2014 2:32 PM EDT

Bangkok, May 7, 2014–Vietnamese police in Hanoi arrested the founder of a popular blog and his assistant on Monday on accusations of disseminating anti-state articles, according to news reports. In 2007, blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh started the Ba Sam news website and aggregator, which often posted materials critical of the government and its policies, reports…