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Dieu Cay, was released from prison on October 21, 2014. PEN Canada caught up with him to see how he is adjusting to exile in California.
PEN International and PEN Canada welcomed the release of Vietnamese blogger Ta Phong Tan on 19 September 2015.
In October 2013, blogger Dieu Cay received PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award for his courageous dissent and continued advocacy for human rights in Vietnam despite a crackdown on online writing by authorities. Lawyer and human rights activist Christine Dang accepted the award in Toronto on Dieu Cay’s behalf who was, at the time, serving a 12-year […]
PEN Canada welcomes the release of Vietnamese blogger Nguyễn Văn Hải, widely known by his pen name “Dieu Cay,” who has been jailed since April 2008.
Vietnamese blogger Dieu Cay will receive the One Humanity Award at PEN Canada’s annual benefit at the 34th International Festival of Authors (IFOA) on October 24, 2013.
Dieu Cay’s case highlights the government of Vietnam’s increasing sensitivity to dissident bloggers and human rights activists. Dana Wagner considers what is at stake in Vietnam’s blogosphere, and why the government has responded so harshly to peaceful criticism.
PEN Canada’s WiPC has learned that Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay) has been on a hunger strike since June 23, 2013, in protest at his detention conditions.
VIETNAM: Three bloggers jailed for ‘anti-state propaganda’ PEN Canada’s Writers in Prison Committee is shocked at the sentences handed down to bloggers Nguyen Van Hai (aka Dieu Cay), Ta Phong Tan and Phan Thanh Hai on September 24, 2012. The bloggers were sentenced to 12, 10 and four years in prison respectively for ‘anti-state propaganda’ in […]
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