Reuters
A jailed Vietnamese blogger serving an 11-year prison term for writing articles criticizing Vietnam’s government is struggling with poor health and needs help to look after himself in the harsh conditions of his new detention center, sources close to his family said on Tuesday.
Nguyen Tuong Thuy, an independent journalist and former RFA Vietnamese Service blogger, was moved earlier this year from a Ho Chi Minh City Police detention center and sent to the Bo La prison in Binh Duong province, sources told RFA in an earlier report.
Thuy, 71, is older than many of the other inmates held at Bo La, and is often last in line when the prison canteen is opened for purchases of food, the wife of a former fellow prisoner told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Tuesday after speaking with her husband the week before by phone.
Backing Serbian coal, China undermines pledge to combat climate change
chinadialogue.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chinadialogue.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
US State Department Concerned on Media Curbs in India Physical attacks and “coordinated hate campaigns” against journalists cited
In a wide-ranging report on human rights violations in India in the year 2020, the US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, has, among other things, detailed attacks on press and media freedom.
Released on March 30, the report quoted Indian journalists as saying that press freedom declined during the year. It quotes
Reporters without Borders 2020 World Press Freedom Index as saying that physical attacks and “coordinated hate campaigns waged on social networks” against journalists were cited as major areas of concern.
Rise Up and Democratic Bulgaria seek to unseat GERB
Many Bulgarians express optimism that anti-corruption candidates will win seats in Sunday s parliamentary elections. They also know that the country s political situation will take a long time to change.
The ruling party is facing challenges from anti-corruption coalitions
There is not much going on Vitosha Boulevard, Sofia s main commercial drag. There isn t even much sign in the nation s capital that parliamentary elections, the first since 2017, are scheduled for Sunday. However, a few members and supporters of the opposition Rise Up! Thugs Out! coalition have gathered, and they are livestreaming on Facebook. This movement emerged from months of protest against the government that began in summer 2020. Members seek to prevent Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, the leader of the center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), from winning a fourth term.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.