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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Vietnamese Việt Nam: Mỹ trao giải thưởng cho Phạm Đoan Trang là ‘thiếu khách quan’

    Vietnam authorities detest Pham Doan Trang’s Courage award calling out the US for its lack of objectivity and inconsideration of the relationships between the two countries.  

    In a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW), Vietnam has imprisoned 146 human rights activists. The US State Department released a report last year stating Vietnam has “major human rights problems.”

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    Responding to the event that the US awarded the “International Women of Courage” (IWOC) award to journalist Pham Doan Trang, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam said that the US action was unobjective and not beneficial to the public’s interests. development of relations between the two countries.

    Earlier, on March 14, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted the awarding ceremony of the “International Women of Courage” award to independent journalist Pham Doan Trang in Vietnam and 11 other women around the world. The award aims to demonstrate their exceptional courage, strength and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights… despite the danger of their lives.

    In a video posted on the website of the US Embassy in Hanoi on the day of the award ceremony, US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper described Pham Doan Trang as someone who “fearlessly pursues a global society”, greater representation and space for freedom of expression in Vietnam”.

    “We applaud you, Pham Doan Trang, for your work as a human rights activist. Your bravery continues to inspire people in Vietnam and around the world,” said the US diplomat, after he affirmed that “the United States values ​​our comprehensive partnership with Vietnam.” We work to help promote a strong, prosperous and independent Vietnam.”

    Journalist Pham Doan Trang is currently serving a 9-year prison sentence for “conducting propaganda against the state”, related to her articles and peacefully expressing opinions, the US State Department announced on 8 /3 said. She was arrested on October 6, 2020 and sentenced on December 14 last year.

    Pham Doan Trang is the third woman in Vietnam to be awarded the International Women of Courage Award by the United States. Before that, blogger Mother Mushroom (Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh) was awarded this award in 2017, and Blogger Ta Phong Tan was awarded in 2013. All three were sentenced to many years in prison by the Vietnamese government for the charge of “Propaganda” against the State”, according to Article 88 of the 1999 Penal Code.

    According to the International Human Rights Watch (HRW), as of December 2021, at least 146 people have been jailed by Vietnam for exercising their basic rights, including bloggers and bloggers. Famous human rights activists such as Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, mother and daughter Can Thi Theu, Truong Minh Duc, Pham Van Troi…

    The US State Department’s human rights report released last year also said that Vietnam has “major human rights problems”, including: the illegal or arbitrary deprivation of life by the government; torture by government employees; Arbitrary arrest and detention of people by the authorities; political prisoners; or major issues of judicial independence; arbitrary or unlawful interference with private life; severely restrict freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and freedom of the Internet, including arbitrary arrest and prosecution of government critics, censorship, closure of websites, legislation on defamation criminal nature; substantially interfere with the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Ukraine – Hiếu Lê và Việt Nam – Pham Đoan Trang

    A Vietnamese-American volunteers to fight in Ukraine.  Journalist and human rights defender Pham Doan Trang receives another international recognition.  VOA’s Tran Van in his blog reflects on both stories and finds a unique connection between the two.

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    VOA’s Vietnamese Language Department reporter has been contacted with Hieu Le (1) – a character mentioned by Vietnamese-language social networks last week as one of the Vietnamese volunteers who went to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invaders. ravaging Ukraine.

    Hieu – Vietnamese-American citizen, California resident, was a US soldier, during his service time in the US army, he participated in the war in Afghanistan, after being discharged, returned to Afghanistan to work for an American company that was approved by the US military. The American team selected as a contractor to provide services related to the field of intelligence, then to the city of Medellin, Columbia (a country in Central America) to open a restaurant selling Vietnamese food – decided to suspend business. to go to Ukraine, help Ukrainians defend their territory.

    The US has just honored Pham Doan Trang – a Vietnamese who is serving a 9-year prison sentence in Vietnam for “ conducting propaganda against the state ” (2). Trang is one of 12 women worldwide to be awarded this year’s ” International Women of Courage ” Award.

    Mr. Antony Blinken – US Secretary of State explained very seriously why the US did what Vietnam derided as… ” a farce “: In December, in Vietnam , Pham Doan Trang was sentenced to 9 years in prison for writing about democracy and human rights. She wrote about the crackdown on protesters , secretly recording police interrogations. While the media stopped printing her articles, she founded her own website. Despite facing constant threats, she continued to communicate to others about their rights … We condemn her unjust imprisonment. We call for her immediate release .”

    Mr. Marc Knapper – US Ambassador to Vietnam added: Pham Doan Trang is fearless in pursuit of an inclusive society and a broader space for free speech in Vietnam, which has attracted the recognition of international … We attach great importance to the comprehensive partnership with Vietnam. We encourage and support a strong, prosperous and independent Vietnam . We believe , for this country to develop, this country needs openness, transparency and inclusion , respecting the rights of all citizens that Trang has been constantly seeking through articles and advocacy. mine.We applaud Trang for her work as a human rights advocate. Your bravery continues to inspire people in Vietnam and around the world …

    Why put the story related to Hieu Le and Ukraine next to the story Pham Doan Trang and Vietnam? Because there is something worth thinking about. If Ukraine does not fervently defend the basic values ​​of a country, a people as it is known, people will certainly not support Ukraine as it is now and of course will not be able to move people like Hieu Le – naturally. felt the need to put aside personal plans to do something for foreign countries like Ukraine.

    If Vietnam were in the same situation as Ukraine is today, how many people feel the need to do something to support a political system, the public system has never hesitated to turn so many compatriots of these systems like Pham Doan Trang become… ” inmates “? How many people of Vietnamese origin will find their way back like Hieu Le when the Vietnamese people have no chance to choose… ” clown ” (6) as head, when Vietnam only has ” adept ” individuals. “In the governance and administration of the country in the communist style, without any tricks to hold on to power, he even casually questioned those who wondered about the territorial sovereignty being controlled by foreigners. challenge, infringe, that:If there is any conflict, how unstable is the situation now, can we sit here and discuss the organization of the party congress (7)?

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Phạm Đoan Trang được tôn vinh tại lễ trao giải ‘Phụ nữ Can đảm Quốc tế 2022’

    Pham Doan Trang was honored at the award ceremony “International Women of Courage 2022.”  US First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken were present at the online award ceremony.  US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper and IWOC laureate Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh offered their praises to the acclaimed journalist.

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    On March 14, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken chaired the awarding ceremony of the “International Women of Courage” (IWOC) award to independent journalist Pham Doan Trang in Vietnam along with 11 other women around the world, praising their exceptional courage, strength and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights… despite the danger to their lives.

    Foreign Minister Blinken commented on the contribution of independent female journalist Pham Doan Trang being imprisoned in Vietnam:

    “In December, Pham Doan Trang was sentenced to 9 years in prison in Vietnam for writing about democracy and human rights. She wrote about the crackdown on protesters and secretly recorded police interrogations. While the media stopped printing her articles, she founded her own website. Despite facing constant threats, she continued to communicate to others about their rights.”

    Secretary of State Blinken added: “We condemn her unjust detention. We call for her immediate release.”

    US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper said via video:

    “Pham Doan Trang, who fearlessly pursues an inclusive society and a wider space for free speech in Vietnam, has attracted international recognition.”

    “Through the Vietnamese press, the United States values ​​our comprehensive partnership with Vietnam. We work to help promote a strong, prosperous and independent Vietnam, and we firmly believe that for this country to thrive it needs openness, transparency and inclusion and respecting the rights of all citizens that Pham Doan Trang has constantly sought out through his writings and advocacy.”

    Ambassador Knapper added: “We applaud you, Pham Doan Trang, for your work as a human rights activist. Your bravery continues to inspire people in Vietnam and around the world.”

    First Lady Jill Biden, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary of Education and Culture Lee Satterfield attended and delivered speeches at the 16th annual IWOC ceremony held at the Department of Education and Training. US Diplomacy.

    First Lady Biden said:

    “Today, we honor these 12 women, and we’ve gone even further, giving them a platform to speak the truth with their voices.

    “We recognize the strength they hold to face the most formidable challenges of our time.”

    In a message to the honored women, First Lady Biden said: “We will continue to work with passion and persistence, with development and with democracy to stop those who want to be silenced. your mouth. And we will tell your stories even if you can’t.”

    Pham Doan Trang is the third woman in Vietnam to be awarded the IWOC award, after Blogger Me Nam or Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, awarded in 2017, and Blogger Ta Phong Tan, awarded in 2013. The common point of the three people This woman was awarded the award by the US Department of State while they were serving 9-10 years in prison in Vietnam, for the same charge of “conducting propaganda against the State”, under Article 88 of the 1999 Penal Code.

    Currently living in Houston, Texas, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Vietnamese government in 2017, commented to VOA about journalist Pham Doan Trang being awarded the IWOC 2022:

    “Congratulations to Ms. Pham Doan Trang for the title of International Woman of Courage 2022. This is the recognition of the United States in particular and the world in general for Pham Doan Trang personally with her hard-fought and sustained efforts. for human rights and freedom of speech in Vietnam. The 9-year prison sentence that the Hanoi People’s Court has pronounced is the revenge that the Vietnamese government has spent in response to Pham Doan Trang’s courage.”

    “I hope that Ms. Doan Trang’s commitment will create positive change in a society full of fear and terror. And most importantly, no more Vietnamese citizens will be convicted for speaking out politically, for resisting oppression and injustice. Not a single Vietnamese citizen has been jailed for showing his courage in front of the authoritarian government,” added Nhu Quynh.

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Phạm Đoan Trang sẽ được Đệ Nhất Phu nhân Mỹ vinh danh ‘Phụ nữ Can đảm Quốc tế 2022’

    Acclaimed Vietnamese journalist and human rights defender Pham Doan Trang is one of the 12 International Women of Courage for 2022.  Jill Biden, the First Lady of the United States, will bestow the recognition in an online award ceremony to be held this March 14.

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    Independent journalist Pham Doan Trang, who is being held by the Vietnamese government, will be honored by Jill Biden, the First Lady of the United States, in honor of International Women of Courage 2022, along with 11 other women around the world.

    The online award ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Washington time on March 14, chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to the US State Department’s announcement.

    Journalist Pham Doan Trang, currently serving a nine-year prison term for “Propaganda against the State”, will be named by First Lady Jill Biden, recognizing her outstanding “courageous achievement”.

    Pham Doan Trang is an internationally recognized author, blogger, journalist and human rights defender who, through her writings and interviews, uses well-researched legal arguments. to advocate for human rights, the rule of law, and to bring every voice into political spaces in Vietnam,” the State Department said in a statement.

    Pham Doan Trang is an author and co-founder of many community service organizations that focus on expanding political participation and promoting human rights, good governance, and access to justice. As a journalist, she boldly reported on social issues that the Vietnamese press had never mentioned before, according to the US State Department.

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Việt Nam phản đối Anh, Canada trao giải cho nhà báo bất đồng chính kiến

    Vietnam opposes Britain, Canada awarding dissident journalist

    Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi, Pham Thu Hang said that Vietnam objected to the Media Freedom Award given to acclaimed journalist Pham Doan Trang by the British and Canadian Foreign Ministries, stating that the prominent human rights activist has “violated Vietnamese law.”  Furthermore, the Spokesperson also said that the Ms. Trang’s recognition is “not conducive to the development of bilateral relations with Vietnam.”

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    The British and Canadian governments announced the awarding of the 2022 Media Freedom Award to Trang, Vietnam’s most famous dissident journalist, at the Press Freedom Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on February 10. This is the latest award for Trang, who is internationally recognized for her work fighting for democracy in a Vietnam where there is little freedom of the press and is often criticized for its poor human rights record.

    Responding to this, Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi, Pham Thu Hang, said that the British and Canadian Foreign Ministry’s handing the award to Ms. Trang, whom the Vietnamese government considers “a violative individual” who has been “breaking the law”, is a “partial” and “inappropriate” action.

    Responding to a reporter’s request for comment on the awarding, Hang said on February 18 that the 44-year-old dissident journalist had been “arrested and tried for several times in serious violation of the law.”

    Ms. Trang was arrested in October 2020 and sentenced to nine years in prison for “Propaganda against the state” last December. Western governments, including the US, and international human rights organizations have voiced their objections to the Vietnamese government’s conviction.

    According to the deputy spokeswoman of BNG Vietnam, Ms. Trang has “contacted organizations and individuals abroad, published illegal publications with content to propagate, guide, and incite activities to overthrow the people’s government.” Ms. Hang said this behavior was “dangerous to society.”

    In addition to co-founding Luat Khoa Magazine, an independent journalistic form in Vietnam, Trang is also the author of many books banned from being published in the country, including “Popular Politics” and “Protesting non-violence.” Before her arrest, Ms. Trang and Mr. Will Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American citizen who had been detained in Vietnam, published the Dong Tam Report, which outlined the “human rights violations” of the Hanoi government in the past year; a deadly raid because of a land dispute between the authorities and the people of Dong Tam village.

    British Secretary of State Lord Ahmad called Ms. Trang a “brave human rights defender of Vietnam” while the Canadian Foreign Ministry called the jailed Vietnamese journalist “a supporter of human rights and the rule of law”, during the awarding of the imprisoned Vietnamese democracy activist.

    BNG Vietnam’s deputy spokesman on February 18 warned that the awarding by the British and Canadian Foreign Ministries to Ms. Trang would be “not conducive to the development of bilateral relations with Vietnam.”

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Người Việt hải ngoại vận động đề cử Phạm Đoan Trang cho giải Nobel Hòa bình

    With the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their contributions in defense of freedom of expression, Vietnamese living overseas are campaigning to nominate journalist Pham Doan Trang who is regarded as a torchbearer for human rights and peaceful democracy activism for Vietnam.

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    The Vietnamese community in many places is campaigning to nominate journalist – activist Pham Doan Trang for the Nobel Peace Prize for her outstanding contributions to the struggle for freedom and democracy for the Vietnamese people. .

    Citing the Nobel Prize Committee’s press release awarding the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their contributions to the defense of freedom of expression, Joint Statement of the Nomination Campaign for Journalist Pham Doan Trang said she deserves to be a candidate for the prestigious award.

    “Sacrificing her youth to fight for the ideal of freedom, Ms. Pham Doan Trang deserves to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize to represent all the victims who have been persecuted by the Vietnamese Communist regime throughout the years. Over the past 70 years for fighting for basic human rights,” the statement said, after summarizing the outstanding achievements and international human rights awards Pham Doan Trang has received over the past 10 years. years of operation, before being arrested on October 6, 2020.

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    Writer Cung Thi Lan, President of Overseas Vietnamese Literature, told VOA that she “admires” the young female author not only for her courage and talent.

    “Pham Doan Trang demands more, that is democratic freedom for the whole of Vietnam, not freedom for only Pham Doan Trang. This is very difficult. That is a very big goal, the desire for the whole nation, not just selfishness for herself”, the female writer who is living in the US said about one of the reasons why she supported the nomination campaign. Pham Doan Trang.

    Ms. Cung Thi Lan and Writers of Vietnam Overseas, a branch of Writers International, have organized many activities in support of human rights in Vietnam over the years. She is also the one who wrote a letter asking Vice President Kamala Harris during his visit to Vietnam last year to bring up human rights issues and demand the release of Pham Doan Trang and other imprisoned authors in Hanoi.

    Talking about the face of the young generation of writers, writer Cung Thi Lan said: “When I follow and read the biographies and works of each individual fighting for Vietnam, I see that each person has I like the positives. But with Pham Doan Trang, I personally think Pham Doan Trang deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Firstly, Pham Doan Trang is female. Prison is not easy for women, and Pham Doan Trang’s works are captivating. For the Nobel Prize, it’s not just the individual who has the courage that their pen attracts the reader. I think that has led to everyone, not only the Vietnamese community, but if you follow them, you will see in the world, such as on the International Literature page, Van Pen Anh, Van Pen Duc … then you will see a lot of things. People around the world support author Pham Doan Trang”.

    Sharing the same comment with writer Cung Thi Lan, Doctor Do Van Hoi, co-chair of the Vietnam Council for Foreign Affairs and Domestic Affairs, told VOA that journalist Pham Doan Trang makes him admire her courage. and her very peaceful way of fighting.

    “The people who fight are very respectable, under a regime that is always under threat,” he said. Second, she fights very peacefully. And thirdly, she can speak out all about fighting for Vietnam, which currently does not have freedom of democracy and freedom of speech. Which she dares is the fight for freedom of speech and book publishing in the country. Books are very useful to people of all times and places.”

    “In a socialist environment, of course those who follow the government will benefit, and those who go against it will be severely persecuted. However, Ms. Pham Doan Trang spoke according to the conscience of humanity, not against anything, that is freedom, democracy and human rights. If the young generation can follow that, it will be very beneficial for our country,” said Dr. Association expressed to VOA.

    Writer Cung Thi Lan believes that there are two factors that have made a young generation “intelligent”, not falling into the orbit of “indoctrinated” of the socialist education system. That is the “smart” characteristic of Vietnamese people and the development of technology, especially the emergence of the internet and social networks.

    “Thanks to the Internet and a lot of information online, children learn, learn and find that what they learn in school or what is propagated in society is completely different from the knowledge that they acquire. from the internet”.

    In addition to co-founding the Law Faculty Magazine, specializing in disseminating knowledge and information on law, politics and human rights, Pham Doan Trang’s famous works such as Popular Politics, Nonviolent Resistance, The prison raising manual… are works written by Trang in the most “popular” way, but have the ability to “liberate” many people, and become works that make the authorities panic, according to his assessment. of the Joint Declaration.

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Blogger Phạm Đoan Trang được trao Giải nhân quyền Martin Ennals 2022

    Nhà báo Việt Nam Phạm Đoan Trang, hiện đang thụ án 9 năm tù vì các hoạt động “chống phá nhà nước”, đã được trao Giải thưởng Martin Ennals 2022 dành cho những người bảo vệ nhân quyền, ủy ban giải thưởng công bố hôm.

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    Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang, currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for “anti-state” activities, has been awarded the 2022 Martin Ennals Prize for human rights defenders, the awards committee announced today.

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Tại sao Đảng sợ Phạm Đoan Trang

    Why is the Party afraid of Pham Doan Trang? VOA Tiếng Việt breaks down the reasons why Vietnam’s prominent human rights defender is a threat to the state, and was handed a nine-year prison sentence.

    Title: Tại sao Đảng sợ Phạm Đoan Trang
    Publish Date: December 16, 2021
    Publisher: VOA Tiếng Việt

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    Ms. Pham Doan Trang, 43, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for “Propaganda against the State” under the Communist Party’s Criminal Law. Lawyer Dang Dinh Manh said, when the court paused, Ms. Doan Trang turned to look at the mother sitting about 5 meters behind. Mrs. Bui Thi Thien Can, more than 80 years old, held hands and raised a thumb: “You are Number One!”

    Pham Doan Trang founded the magazine ” Law Khoa ” to help Vietnamese people understand the law to protect their rights. She worked as a journalist from 2000 to 2013, collaborated with nearly ten domestic press agencies, such as VnExpress, Vietnamnet, Ho Chi Minh City Law Newspaper, VTC Television, etc.

    Why is it that after the prosecutor recommended a sentence of 7 to 8 years in prison, the judge increased it to 9 years?

    Because the Communist Party is afraid. That was the comment of a newspaper in Berlin, Germany, immediately when it announced the verdict.

    Mr. Duong Hong An in Germany introduced the TAZ daily newspaper reporting the trial, under the headline ” Pressefreiheit in Vietnam “. The newspaper wrote the title: “Nine years in prison for female journalists” ( Neun Jahre Haft für Journalistin ). TAZ explained, “The dictatorship gave the sentence too harshly, probably because they were afraid…” Thanks to this newsletter, readers learned that “Vietnam ranks 175th out of 180 countries, in the ranking of “self-sustaining” by the press” of Reporters Without Borders.”

    Why is the Party afraid of Pham Doan Trang? TAZ wrote that they were “afraid of the villagers” that they would continue to fight harder. A month before her arrest last year, Ms. Trang and Will Nguyen (in the US) published a file about the village of Dong Tam, a suburb of Hanoi, where villagers protested against the communist regime’s confiscation of their land and then being harassed. ruthless pressure. TAZ noted that “Two people from Dong Tam commune were sentenced to death, the others were sentenced to many years in prison.”

    TAZ newspaper also published news that the Vietnamese people in the country did not know, because no newspaper or radio station mentioned it: On the Monday before the trial, the international organization Human Rights Watch asked the Communists to Vietnam released Pham Doan Trang immediately. HRW accused the communists of violating the International Covenant on Freedoms that they signed in 1982. TAZ newspaper also recalled, in 2017 the human rights organization “People in Need” in the Czech Republic (Czech) had awarded her with the Homo-Homini Preis (Homo-Homini Preis) award, and in 2019 Reporters Without Borders awarded her the “Press Freedom” award. PEN Center in Germany honored Pham Doan Trang as an honorary member; asked the communist state to release her.

    Professor Nguyen Quang A shows another reason why the Party is afraid of Pham Doan Trang: Because the very crime of “anti-state” they accuse her of is absurd. He wrote, “…in principle no one can oppose a state…but everyone has the right to oppose a government…when it does wrong…”

    Journalist Tuan Khanh also saw the Party’s weakness. Because of the lack of reason, “obscenity.” The Party is afraid of Pham Doan Trang because she “advocates to fight with reason and words.” And the Party does not think of reasons! Secretly, the Party has to use violent actions, language, and degrading. Tuan Khanh recounted that in 2017, after Doan Trang published the book Politics of the People abroad and was arrested, she was taken to a cell. After she asked again and again why she was imprisoned, no one could answer one question. Instead of saying “I just followed the order above,” a young police officer pointed his finger at her face, shouting, “Fuck your face…!” That is the familiar logic and words of the Party.

    The 9-year prison sentence is the language “D.M.” of the uneducated when they lose reason. Nguyen Quang A sees the same 9-year sentence: “…only the weak resort to such brutal repressive measures…” But he also sees the result as “just making more people more determined!” Moreover, “many people see the illegal actions of the government, and that are really harmful to the government.”

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  • Pham Doan Trang in UCA News: Vietnamese journalist wins press freedom award

    Pham Doan Trang, Luật Khoa and The Vietnamese co-founder, was honored by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with the Prize for Impact.  

    In her recorded acceptance message, Ms. Trang says the award “shows that “journalists around the world, especially those who are victims of persecution, maltreatment, torture and extortion by government authorities, are not alone in their fight for justice, truth and human rights.”

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    The press freedom efforts of a Vietnamese blogger-reporter were honored at a Reporters Without Borders (RSF) event held in Berlin on Sept. 12.

    Pham Doan Trang, 41, won RSF’s Prize for Impact, an award granted to journalists whose work improves journalistic freedoms, independence and pluralism.

    Trang was unable to receive her prize in person, so it was instead accepted by one of her colleagues, Trinh Huu Long, at the German event.

    For her press work, Trang was beaten and detained twice for several days in 2018.

    Trang is the founder of www.luatkhoa.org, an online magazine that specializes in providing legal information. She also works as an editor of www.thevietnamese.org, which assists Vietnamese citizens to defend their rights in their communist-run country.

    She is the author of many books including one defending the rights of Vietnam’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

    In a brief video clip sent to the ceremony, Trang played the guitar and sang a folk song.

    She also said RSF’s annual Press Freedom Awards shows that “journalists around the world, especially those who are victims of persecution, maltreatment, torture and extortion by government authorities, are not alone in their fight for justice, truth and human rights.”

    Via the video, Trang said journalism in Vietnam is seen as a crime against the communist state.

    “The prize helps me understand fully that no prize is a private one, no achievement is purely of an individual without countless efforts of many people secretly and publicly accompanying that person,” she said, adding that the prize is also for all people seeking the truth.

    Trang also expressed her deep gratitude to advocates for her cause and thousands of readers who accept risks, anxieties and dangers to buy her banned books.

    The Liberal Publishing House, Vietnam’s only independent publisher whose activities are restricted by police, said the prize is a great honor for both itself and Trang.

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  • Pham Doan Trang in VOA Tiếng Việt: Phạm Đoan Trang đạt giải Tự do Báo chí 2019 của RSF

    Blogger and Luật Khoa editor-in-chief Pham Doan Trang states her reasons for refusing to go to Berlin to receive her Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom award despite the interventions and assistance of the German Embassy in Hanoi.

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    Note:  Original texts in Vietnamese.

    On the evening of September 12, 2019 in Berlin, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) officially awarded the Press Freedom award in the category of Influence to independent journalist and blogger Pham Doan Trang of Vietnam.

    Blogger Pham Doan Trang, the author of several political books banned from publication in the country, told VOA that she decided not to go to Berlin to attend the RSF award ceremony on September 12 because she knew that the Vietnamese government could cause harm. prevented her from leaving the country, even though the German Embassy in Hanoi intervened.

    Female blogger Pham Doan Trang says:

    “I think if I want to go, the government can give it away, but certainly before I go, I have to sit down and negotiate, and I have to accept some conditions set by the government, and if I don’t accept it, then I don’t want to go. can not go. Since I didn’t want to talk to them, I decided not to go.

    “As far as I know, the German Ambassador intervened with the Vietnamese government to return the right to carry passports as well as ensure the freedom of entry and exit of some Vietnamese activists including myself.

    “The German side is very enthusiastic, but in my experience, we have to negotiate with the Vietnamese police anyway such as: not campaigning, not propagandizing, not slandering the country…otherwise they will start a campaign. element; they’ll also think they’ll have a hard time deciding whether or not I’ll go home, so it’s best for me to decide not to go.”

    On August 29, activist Pham Doan Trang, co-founder of the online website Law Faculty Magazine , was nominated by RSF for the Freedom of the Press Award in the Influence category.

    Ms. Doan Trang commented on the reason why she was nominated by RSF for the Influence category :

    “I think maybe they know that in the last 2-3 years I have published a lot of books, besides my editorial work at Law Faculty of Journalism . Every year I publish 2-3 books and have such a large readership that I am surprised myself. Maybe they use that to award prizes.

    “I know that the value that RSF pursues when considering this award is that they want journalists around the world, especially journalists who are victims of persecution, harassment, abuse, government abuse. right to know that these journalists are not alone in their fight.

    “RSF has really helped people in my situation feel that they are not alone.”

    Blogger Pham Doan Tranh’s books recently released by Freedom Publishing House include Popular Politics, Nonviolent Resistance, Prison Raising Manual, Politics of A Police State , etc.

    On the evening of September 12, present in Berlin, journalist Trinh Huu Long announced on Facebook:

    “For many reasons, journalist Doan Trang did not go to Germany to attend this award ceremony. Journalist Trinh Huu Long, Editor-in-Chief of Law Khoa , will attend the event on behalf of journalist Doan Trang.”

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