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A street vendor sells newspapers in Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 March 2019, Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched the #FreePhamDoanTrang campaign for the release of Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang with a petition and a video featuring the voices of Vietnamese diaspora writers and activists.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 7 December 2020.
Two months after her arrest, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is launching a campaign for the release of Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang with a petition and a video in which Vietnamese diaspora colleagues voice strong support for this symbol of the fight for the freedom to inform in Vietnam.
Foreign media express anxiety over Thailand s press freedoms thethaiger.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thethaiger.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Foreign journalists discuss obstacles to reporting in Thailand, writes Thana Boonlert
published : 14 Dec 2020 at 04:00 Tostevin: Journalists face intimidation
Foreign journalists have expressed concern about restrictions on press freedom in Thailand with current laws proving to be an obstacle to reporting of the anti-government protests, despite government assurances there have been no curbs on freedom of expression.
For months, the pro-democracy movement has made international headlines with demands for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to stand down, a rewritten constitution and reform of the monarchy.
Matthew Tostevin, the Southeast Asia editor for Reuters, told a forum at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) last week of the legal challenges which foreign media face when reporting news in the region.
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An RFA blogger jailed in Vietnam for 10 years on a land-fraud charge is being forced to work long hours in spite of chronic pain from herniated discs, Vietnamese sources say.
Truong Duy Nhat, who had been a weekly contributor to RFA’s Vietnamese Service before his abduction by police in Thailand in January 2019, now works eight hours a day making paper money for sale as offerings burned later in religious ceremonies, a friend of Nhat’s said on Friday.
Nhat’s friend, literary critic Pham Xuan Nguyen, had gone with Nhat’s wife and younger sister on Dec. 3 to visit him at the Tan Ky No. 3 detention camp in Nghe An province, Nguyen told RFA’s Vietnamese Service.