Photo: RFA Mass arrests in Hong Kong and independent journalists imprisoned in Vietnam The United States and European Union called on Vietnam on Wednesday to immediately free three jailed Vietnamese journalists, one of them a blogger for RFA, sentenced this week to long jail terms for writing articles online criticizing Vietnam’s one-party communist government. Nguyen Tuong Thuy, who had blogged for RFA for six years on civil rights and press-freedom issues, was convicted in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday with Pham Chi Dung and Le Huu Minh Tuan on charges of anti-state activity, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.