[Politech] Nguyen Dan Que, Vietnamese writer, still detained without charges [fs]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 21:45:42 PDT


Here's some more background on Nguyen Dan Que, who seems to be a brave 
and principled fellow:
http://www.hrw.org/advocacy/internet/dissidents/3.htm
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/Letter_from_Nguyen_Dan_Que.html
http://www.hdvnbtdt.org/article.php3?id_article=96


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Subject: Writer on trial for condemning Vietnamese censorship 7/23/04
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:40:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tuyet A. Ngoc Tran
To: declan@private

Hi Declan,

How are you? I trust your summer is going well.

I thought the following clip from CPJ might be of
interest to you and others. If you post it, please
remove my e-mail address, thank you.

Best,
Tuyet


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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls for
the immediate release of writer Nguyen Dan Que, who
spent 16 months in detention without charge. The Ho
Chi Minh City People's Court will finally try Que on
July 29 on charges of "taking advantage of democratic
rights to infringe upon the interests of the state."
Mr Que, 62, was arrested four days after he had
written an essay in which he condemned the
government's strict control over information and the
media. In the
commentary, which was distributed online, Mr Que
wrote, "The state hopes to cling to power by
brainwashing the Vietnamese people through stringent
censorship and through its absolutist control over
what information the public can receive."

Source: http://www.cpj.org/


	
		
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