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Hello everyone,
We learned of her arrest exactly six months ago. Pham Doan Trang, a well-known Vietnamese journalist who had been awarded the RSF Press Freedom Prize in 2019, was arrested at her Ho Chi Minh City home by plainclothes policemen last October. There’s been no news of her since then. She’s not been allowed to talk to a lawyer or her family and she is facing up to 20 years in prison on a charge of “anti-state propaganda.”
As she completed her sixth month in detention, several RSF Press Freedom Prize laureates recorded video messages expressing their support for her in order to help draw international attention to her fate. All of them called for her immediate and unconditional release by the Vietnamese authorities. Here are their video messages:
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