\u201cthe fear inside each person\u2019s hearts, fear that is slowly, inexorably stifling our vitality and our very future. Dispelling this fear is the most urgent challenge we face\u201d.<\/em><\/strong> Her sentence today, and the 7-year sentence of blogger Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n H\u00f3a last Monday are clear examples of this strategy, which is aimed not to sanction real crimes, but to stifle all free expression of legitimate concerns about the problems of Vietnamese society today.<\/p>\nDetained since October 10, 2016, Nguy\u1ec5n Ng\u1ecdc Nh\u01b0 Qu\u1ef3nh is one of the very first human rights defenders in Vietnam to have used the Internet and social media to document human rights violations committed by the Vietnamese authorities. Since her first arrest in 2009, she has relentlessly criticized the Government on a wide range of social and political issues.<\/p>\n
In April 2016, she addressed the Government\u2019s mishandling of serious water pollution problems and the subsequent mass fish deaths caused by toxic waste discharged by the Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics in three coastal provinces. In an important document entitled \u201cStop Police Killing Civilians\u201d based on articles published in the official press, Nh\u01b0 Qu\u1ef3nh exposed numerous incidents of police brutality and torture that resulted in the death of several individuals while in custody.<\/p>\n
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PARIS, 30th November 2017 (VCHR) \u2013 The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) strongly protests the condemnation on appeal of prominent blogger and human rights defender Nguy\u1ec5n Ng\u1ecdc Nh\u01b0 Qu\u1ef3nh (aka M\u1eb9 N\u1ea5m \u2013 Mother Mushroom) to ten years in prison by a court in Nha Trang today. The court upheld the sentence pronounced …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"featured_media":38040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,113,98,64],"tags":[379,380,378,540,541],"class_list":["post-38039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-posts","category-news","category-press-release","category-vchr","tag-me-nam","tag-mother-mushroom","tag-nguyen-ngoc-nhu-quynh","tag-nguyen-van-hoa","tag-vo-an-don"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queme.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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